Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — Famous Doctor Opposes Drag!. [ARTICLE]

Famous Doctor Opposes Drag!.

Sir Frederick Treves, physician to the King of England, speaking at the opening of a London hospital, expressed the belief that the time was not far off when bottles on doctors’ shelves would be reduced to a very small number, and. when people would “leave off the extraordinary habit of taking medicine when they are sick.” At that time people would resort to simple living, suitable diet and plenty of sun and fresh air. He said the time would come when it would be as anomalous for people to die of scarlet fever, typhoid, cholera and diphtheria as it would be for a man to die of a wolfs bite in England. He referred to the discoveries in bacteriological science as being capable of reducing mortality from infectious diseases to the zero point