DOCTORS AND HEALTH
Sir, — Surely your correspondents "Mum and Dad" do not seriously mean that doctors are deliberately filling hospitals witth patients "doped to dizzy exhaustion"? "Mum and Dad" must admit they have at least the heaven-sent privilege of enjoying the benefit of living in an immeasurably healthier period than that of a hundred or even fifty years ago. Admit that, and the reason for such a privilege must be admitted also; and that is undoubtedly found in the practical results (in spite of anti-vaccination agitators) of the Divinely inspired and unceasing research work by the medical profession, in all its branches, including that of anti-toxin. The many modern miracles of science, of which those of medicine are not the least, help to prove the truth of the assertion that everything that God made for the use of man, when used with discernment of course, is very good. The "laboratory stuff," including " dope, sera,
and vaccines," so slighted by your correspondents, are indeed included in the "very good" and stand as a mighty bulwark against the misery and heartbreaks caused by the ravages of infectious diseases, especially now in the
war stricken zones.
ROB
‘Ahipara),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 13
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195DOCTORS AND HEALTH New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 110, 1 August 1941, Page 13
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