Long Island College Hospital - Lichonian Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

Page 43 text:

'ff'-' F 5 f f.W ' 554' W' ,f if sr 'ff f f f 5 - ---H 'is 'iifliliihlil ...i..?2Efi1'E,lml73asL5fL'2. 5..Q'ifiZ.,if''1.,FE?.ats.fv,2 :j1f'r,!.fQ2.:-12 IfELEZE'i'Q1IEl3EEZEQf2 H. SHERIDAN BAKETEL Professor of Prefzreniiive fllerlirine and Hygiene Phillips Exeter Academy, 1890, Medical Preparatory Course, Boston University, 1892, M.D., Dartmouth College, 1895, A.M., Holston College. 1908, F. A. C. P,, 1920, Instructor in Genito-Urinary Diseases and Syphilis, L. I. C. H., 1918, Lec- turer in Hygiene, 1916, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene and Lecturer in Genito-Urinary Diseases and Syphilis, 1917, Member of Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Kappa Kappa, Editor of Medical Times, 1911, President of American Medi- cal Editors' Association, 1920, Attending Syphilologist, Beekman Street Hospital, 1919, Attending Urologist, The Infantorium, 1921, Consulting Syphilologist, Peek- skill Hospital, 1923, Lt. Colonel, M. R. C., U. S. Army, Author of Treatment of Syphilis and many monographs on medical subjects, Member N. Y. Academy of Medicine, Am. Urol. Assn., Brooklyn Urol, Assn.-, Am. Public Health Assn., Am. Med. Ed. Assn., Associated Physicians of L. I., American Medical Association, etc. Page thu M emlzt

Page 42 text:

PROFESSOR WARREN and his Section in Jlledicine

Page 44 text:

Page 111 m a y l - lfnnzuan -'ag -f EFT M y HYSICIANS are coming more and more to believe that an ounce of +1 ' prevention is worth a pound of cure. Although some fear that the great - progress whichwhas been. made. in preventive medicinehin the past de- ' A, Q cade points to State medicine, it is very difficult to believe that such is V - a logical conclusion. As the general public becomes better informed on general medical topics, there is an increased demand that disease be prevented. The Schick test has been an eye- opener to many people, and there can be little doubt in the minds of those who think that the progress along preventive lines will at the same time protect the doetor's interests. lin other words, where the physician has in the past treated disease, he will spend a considerable part of his time in future in preventing it, This can be very easily carried out in private practice, with no connection with the State. Since the last issue of the LICHONIAN appeared, Dr. Stephen Smith, who had been regarded as the Father of Public Health in the United States, has passed from this sphere of action. Hygiene must have played an important part in his daily existence, for he died in his 100th year. The seed that he planted more than fifty years ago has borne abundant fruit. The last meeting of the American Public Health Association in Cleveland dem- onstrated that continual progress is being made, and the number of workers is mate- rially increasing. There has never been a period in which the young medical man has been offered better oppo1'tunities for service in a broad Way than today. lVIunicipal boards of health offers the younger practitioners a means for livelihood while they are establish- ing their practices or, if their bent be such, it affords them an opportunity to adopt! public health as a vocation. A number of the sanitarians in the New York City Board of Health have pursued their studies for the degree of Doctor of Public Health, at the same time carrying out their city duties. Health work is also a useful adjunct to the practitioner in smaller cities and in towns, and these positions are becoming more and more sought. At a meeting in Washington called in 1922 by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, which was attended by the leaders in public health Work, as well as iI'f,l lllJ1P