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Pills Put to Test
Dr. Cabot Finds Only a Few
Drugs Are of Any Utility
?OCIA! ?rroRK. b<- TUrbard C. Cabot
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Richard Cabot is the most comforting
of physicians because he curtails to
auch sn extent the responsibility of
both patient and practitioner. The doc?
tor has merely to confirm his belief
that he has no medicines which will do
the patient a bit of good and the pa
tier: need do nothing but wait and dis?
cover whether nature intends him to
die or get w< 11.
"The vast majority of diseases get
well without any help 'rom anybody,"
writes Dr. Cabot, "and that is the
thii-cr we must teach most often and to
most p >p ? ? in season and out of sea
gon. In our day and generation few
peonlc get a chance of observing that
fact, because somebody comes along
ar.J gives them a drug. And unless one
has seen people get well without any
drujs. er.e continues to believe that it
was the last drup given that cured
ev- ry case of illness one has known to
psi weli. On the other hand, the ma?
jority of illnesses that do not get well
without dru?s will not get well at all.
-.ave mentioned before the figures
?:. seem appr< ximately true in rela
;. to the cure of disease by drugs.
Oi .?.- will cure about six or eight
?ases out of about 150 known
icier.ee. Anybody who "ails to give
i'rug for one o:" thi -? six or eight
;ases is criminally negligent. We
uld press that drug upon the pa
t. I do not want anybody to think
? ; I do not believe in drugs. I be
?? r in them tremendously, in the par?
lar cases where thy are of use. But
i not stand for the habit of bolster?
ing up people's beliefs that we have
rugs all ready to cure most diseases.
* think the future of cure by drugs
ery hopeful. ! do not feel hopeless
>ur discovering drugs for the 142
ou of 150 diseases which we still can
no* cure. But if we falsely suppose
-.. ? we have a cure already, we do not
hurtle around to cot it. It is not until
*.'? realize that we have not a cure
already, that we do hustle around to
get it. It :s not until we realize that
we are now very helpless in medicine
that we shall labor in a way to become
les.- so. At present the best that we
can do for most patients is to explain
what the trouble is. let them know
what is going t : pen. to preach some
hygicn.u and above all. to make them
realize that we care and ?';:'. r with
them. That :? the essence of medical
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"People frequently consult a doctor
because they are afraid of fainting,
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people who faint come too just as well
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fussing about that is usual when people
I faint is useful merely to keep the by?
standers busy and not to revive the
patient."
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sistant may be used in mental inves?
tigation. This is reprinted from a lec?
ture which Dr. Cabot delivered in
, France and during the course of the
lecture he has occasion to criticize
American doctors for failure to take
full account of the mental factor in
disease. This, he holds, has led to its
being overemphasized by various lay
movements. After paying a compliment
to the part which France has played in
the investigation of medical psychology
the doctor continues:
"In America, on the other hand, the
conspicuous disregard of medical psy?
chology by physicians has led to wide?
spread and serious revolt on the part
of the public. Our physicians have
too often treated the patient as if ht
were a walking disease, a body without
a mind. Medical psychology has beer
neglected in our medical schools anc
in the practice of our most successfu
clinicians. The result has been a re
volt on the part of the laity, expressec
in the popularity of the heretical heal?
ing cults, such as Christian Scienc<
and New Thought. These unscientifii
and unchristian organizations illustrate
an error opposite to that of the phy
; sicians, hut no greater in degree. In
deed. I think that our physicians an
more to be blamed than the leaders o
these irrational cults, because our phy
sicians, having received a scientific
training, ought to be more thorough
more unprejudiced, more devoted ti
the truth, and, therefore, less inclino
to phut their eyes to a huge body of
fact?. The physician often shuts his
eyes to the existence of the mind as
a cause of disease. The Christian Sci?
entist shut? his eye? to the existence
of the body as a cause of disease. Both
are equally and disastrously wrong."
The book is informative enough, to
be extremely useful to all who are
engaged in social work, bu; it is also
interesting enough in substance and
in treatment to claim the attention of
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It seems to be an invariable rule
that French novelists become realists
as soon as they approach the war,
while American novelists become ro?
mantic. The difference in point of
view is probably the difference of a
year and a half of war and four years.
But Bertrer. althouch he beeins in the
spirit of Barbusse, is by no means of
the opinion that nothing good came
out of the war. Quite the contrary, he
endeavors in the latter part of his new
novel to point out some of the fine
things of spirit which were born in
the conflict. This theme, however, is
not quite as compelling as his argu?
ment against the wastage of war be?
cause it comes late in the book. At
least the first two-thirds of the volume
is devoted to the sufferings of an
auxiliary ("corresponding to our own
limited service classification), who is
stationed in Dunkirk.
Jean Darboise, this auxiliary, saw
service at the front and was seriously
wounded in the arm, which incapaci?
tated him for further active service.
Indeed, by the strict letter of the
regulations, he should never have been
sent to Dunkirk, and he protests in
vain against his transfer. Before the
war Darboise was a young artist of
great promise, but his career seems
definitely interrupted, if not destroyed,
by the war. The work to which he
is put in Dunkirk is of the most ex?
acting and menial sort, anc includes?
such tasks as shiploading and wood
chopping and baking. Worst of all,
the service behind the lines seems to
be compromised by all sorts of little
spites and injustices. Hard tasks and
easy ones go entirely by favor. Dar?
boise is a poor politician, and he soon
gets into the bad graces of every one,
which makes his lot all the harder.
He drifts into a love affair with a
young woman in Dunkirk, and his in?
fidelity is iater discovered by his wife,
who promptly leaves him and refuses
forgiveness. Added to this comes a
row with a non-commissioned officer,
which seems likely to bring serious
consequences, and then an illness.
Jean Finds an Ideal
In the hospital Darboise falls under
the influence of a defeatist and his
morale is at a low ebb, when the ser?
geant with whom he rowed suddenly
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turns out to be a high-minded idealist,
who saves him from the consequences
of insubordination. From this point
the story takes a more optimistic turn.
Gandolphe, the sergeant, makes Jean
see something in the war which he can
support w'ith his heart and soul, and
with this spiritual regeneration comes
bodily health as well, and eventually
a reconciliation with the injured wife.
It. may not be said, however, that the
books ends altogether happily, since, in
the last chapter, Gandoiphe is sudden?
ly re?xamined and taken away from the
auxiliaries for active service on the
eve of his marriage. Perhaps the
moral is contained in Gando'phe's
words of farewell: "Don't let us com?
plain even of that. As long as the
war lasts, it would be wrong to be
hnnnv'"
Berger is more effective in his pessi
mism than his optimism. The early I
chapters on the trials and tribulations
of Jean are the best in the book. All
this is done vividly and with a wealth
of incident. The author was himself a
non-commissioned officer in the French
Army. Possibly, there is just a bit
too much of the hardships and the
monotony of the service behind the ?
lines, for it is difficult to shake off the
early pessimism when the author de- j
cides to change the mood of the story. '
Of course, Dunkirk is not without its j
excitement and although the air raids
may hardly have served to relieve the !
feelings of the soldiers, they are re
marbably enlivening for the reader, as
described in Berger's vivid style. The
book is also interesting in the evidence
it offers that victory in the war has
by no means turned the hearts of the i
French to longings for more military i
glory. Gandolphe himself, although he
wins Jean back from defeatism, is
frank to admit that little may be said
for any military machine, except as a
means to an end. The final paragraph
of Gandolnhe's most bitter arraign?
ment is as follows :
"One has only to think of it for a
second. What is the military r?gime,
if it is not the simplest and roughest
form of absolutirm ? It is a mechanism
created for imposing force, and force
is everything to it. That is enough to
show that the mind is its adversary-?
they are principles in eternal conflict!
What is the cornerstone of,the armies?
Discipline. Now. when you speak of
discipline, you speak of the negation
of argument. The subordinate can
only bow to the decision of his chief,
were the latter tenfold wrong. You
see the risk. What a prize to offer to
the dangerous instincts of man! Think
of the unlimited power of the superior
over his subordinates, of the formid?
able penalties put at his disposition,
lie is a superior who need not have
any sort of superiority. One tab more
and it is done?the law of iron; and
himself subject to the same absolutism.
What intoxication for mediocre brains!
What a superior type of man he would
need be to resist it! And hence these
usual results-?arrogance, indolence,
dread of superiority, hatred of ability,
a cynical don't-care-ism?do I paint the
picture too black ?"
Jean is not disposed to find fault
with the shade of the picture, but he
objects that if this is militarism as
Gandclphe sees it, does he not fear
that France, too, will be poisoned by it?
The Saving Grace
"No," the sergeant declares, "I put
my trust in the instinct of the race.
Only think that just now, in the midst
of war, we are recruiting new converts
How many good people there used tc
be who lived outside the military yoke
and were inclined to admit that it was
in a measure tolerable! What ar
awakening for them, now that the>
have experienced its rigors! In th?
hearts of all oppressed people, of al
to whom the sustenance of justice anc
reason is refused, the adoration o)
those gods takes root. And they wh<
have fought will return with conse
crated affections and holy hatreds
The oppressors will not hold fast
their eyes will open likewise. Whei
the German might comes to staggers
when their militarism collapses, thi
qualities which they threatened wil
be mightily let loose throughout thi
world. Our own militarism will bi
cleaned away, too. And when thi
monstrous beast is killed, then we shal
; be able to hold out hopes that thi
I war was the last."
"A Life at Stake" seems to us i
! well written book, not only for it
- carefully observed incident, but fo
| the spirit which underlies it. Th
j reader will find it often an eloquen
i exponent of the ideals of France in th
, war. Sometimes we are on the verg
| of forgetting just what the spirit wa
I which urged the French forward. Bei
1 ger may help uo remember.
About a Column
i
We don't know what we may think
| of Rider Hagrgrard's "When the World
: Shook" after we have finished it, but
! up to now we have a lively prejudice
. against the hero who tells the story.
"Further," he writes, "I had, and to
?a certain extent still have, another ad
, vantage over my father, which cer
: tainly came to me from my mother.
who was, as I judge from all descrip?
tions and such likenesses as remain of
: her, an extremely handsome woman.
I was born much better looking. He
was small and dark, a little man with
deepset eyes and beetling brows. I am
also dark, but tall above the average,
? and well made. I do not know that I
need say more about my personal ap?
pearance, to me not a very attractive
subject, but the fact remains that they
called me 'handsome Humphrey' at the
? university, and I was the captain of
j my college boat and won many prizes
, at athletic sports when I had time to
, train for them."
, Moreover, he is a fastidious young
1 man. "Perhaps a definition will help."
| he explains, "I am like a man with an
I over-developed sense of smell who,
when walking through a foreign city,
however clean and well kept, can al?
ways catch the evil savors that are in
! separable from such cities."
Foreign cities indeed! Where could
j the sensitive young man find more em
' ployment for his nose than in his own
; London, except, of course, in Chicago
| or Peking.
Our Weekly News Beat
Virginia Tracy, one of our most able
I contributors, invariably writes ap
? parantly while Natalie McCloskoy, the
i N. M. of these pages, uses buckel un?
less interferred with.
Mencken's book on the American
language is only a few weeks old and
' already room has been made for an?
other word which promises to remain.
Like so much of our native tongue it
is the product of the baseball columns.
"Owens called Ping Bodie out at first
and the athlete promptly did a Hawk?
er."
Dr. Richard C. Caoot, the author of
"Social Work," has long been nur fa?
vorite medical author. Our enthusiasm
dates from the moment we came across
a most comfortable piece of doctrine ,in
Cabot's "A Layman's HandbooK of
Medicine." As we remember it his
dictum was "Sleep all you can; ynu
cannot possibly overdo it." Shake?
speare, who seems to anticipate every?
body, probably had some such idea to
mind in his oft quoted exhortation
"Lay on, Macduff."
The Meals They Write
Answering L. S. H.'s inquiry as to
an author who serves the right kind of
food in his stories, 1 refer to Walters,
the English man-servant of Van Lib?
ber in Richard Harding Davis's stoty,
who ordered for his master but con?
sumed himself, a dinner at Delmon
ico's on a hot summer night, which
consisted of:
"Little Neck clams first, with chab?s
and pea soup and caviare on toast,
before the oyster crabs, with Johannis
berger Cabinet; then an entr?e of
calves' brains and rice; then no roast,
but a bird, cold asparagus with French
dressing, Camembert cheese and Turk?
ish coffee. As there were to be no
women he omitted the sweet? and
added three other wines to follow the
white wine. It struck him as a par?
ticularly well-chosen dinner."
And for a perfect riot of good eat?
ing let her read the final chapter in
the recent book by Arthur Bartlett
Maurice, "Fifth Avenue."?T. H. Bask
erville.
It seems to us that this "Meals They '
Write" series is interesting, but as we
are at present on a diet which consists
mostly of buttermilk, il is also aggra?
vating. Only our high sense of jour- j
nalistic duty has enabled us to keep it
up so far. We think we may manage
to hold out if no contributor finds an
author who has written about cauli?
flower or softshell crabs.
Reviewers and German Books
Difficult, quoted, is precisely the
word to apply to criticism of German
authors by American reviewers. Of
course, German books and plays should
not be done into English while the
present reigning passion against the
Germans is at its neap. Nevertheless
the Germans hnve produced good
books. We have pronounced as much
before the war. Four fingers of in?
tellectual fairmindedness, if at all pos?
sible at this moment, would probably
point to the conclusion that the Ger
mens are still writing good books and
plays.
There is, however, one drawback to !
the patriotic passion which sternly
rejects the literary activities of our
enemies. The passion itself may be?
come sublimated into chicane and
subtle highbindery, as well as that
well known variety of plagiarism so
familiar to Broadway. Instead of hav?
ing, let us say, Molnar, Schnitzler. Bahr
or Sudermann, even, on our theatrical
row, we will probably have their plays
just the same, slightly altered but un?
mistakably purloined, by the dextrous
farceurs and adapters who rise on the
basic talents of better men. The
former will be amply protected in
Germany, Austria and Hungary by our
reparations commission there. Is it
too much to expect fairness from book
reviewers? Perhaps the Authors'
League will take the matter in hand
; and defend their fellow plumitifs the
world over, the before-mentioned coun
i tries included. P. L.
Lafayette, We're Here
We have received and, unfortunately,
mislaid a letter from a son of Everett
T. Tomlinson, the author of "The
' Story of General Pershing," in which
we are informed that Mr. Tomlinson
1 cannot possibly be in error in at?
tributing the phrase, "Lafayette, nous
voil?," to Pershing, because the book
' has been read and approved by the gen
\ eral himself. We can hardly accept this
1 as convincing evidence, since there is
! no reason to believe that General Per?
shing had time to read Mr. Tomlinson's
biography carefully. Otherwise he
would hardly have authorized the sev
' eral comparisons of himself and Lin
, coin. Moreover, the reference to the
j Lafayette phrase was merely incidental
and might well have been overlooked.
: All the evidence we have been able to
gather points to Colonel Stanton a%the
' man who spoke the lines. We have al
' ready printed the names of two per
'? sons who heard the speeches in
Picpus Cemetery, and this week we
talked to two former editors of "The
Stars and Stripes," the official army
newspaper, and both agreed that it
, was Stanton who used the phrase in
question. HEYWOOD BROUN.
Novel by Tagore
Interesting Study of
a Rajah and Rani
THB HOME AND THE WORLD By
Rablndranatri Tagor?. Publlahsd bv Th?
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Tagore's first long novel to be pub?
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a remarkable piece of work. It would
not be fair yet to draw any compari?
son between the famous Indian's pro?
ficiency in this new form and the others
ir which he has established his repu?
tation. The novel shows no great
grasp of structure, but is illumined
by excellent character drawing. The
plot is built along familiar triangle
lines, but the setting, in the home
of a progressive rajah, is novel. And.
after all, since India is the home of
everlasting things, what more fitting
then that it should serve as a back?
ground for the eternal trisr.gle.
"The Home and the World" preser.**
some curious lapses in style. Accord?
ing to the publisher's announcement,
"This story was translated by Mr. Su
rendransth lagore. and the translation
was revised by the author." The re?
vision has not always been thorough?
going. It failed, for instance, to take
out "Passion is beautiful and pure
pure as the lily that comes out of the
slimy soil. It rises superior to its
defilement and needs no Pears' soap
to wash it clean." It is true that both
the passages quoted occur in firs* per?
son narratives of a character called
Sandip, who is an agitator and a man
of lower class than the rajah or the
rani, who are the other story tellers,
but at the same time he is pictured
as a man of great eloquence, and Ta?
gore at times permits him flights fully
as lofty as any of the rest.
The device of three narrators is no?
altogether a happy one, as it serves
to break the current of the story into
eddies?very eoori eddies, as a dramntic
reviewer might say, but still obstacle?
to the smooth progress of the story.
The chief interest of the book lies in
the insight which it gives us into the
life and minds of the progressives
of India. The story concerns the
effect which the nationalist mivement,
Swadeshi, has in driving a wedge be
tween the rajah and the rani, thanks
to the influence of a brilliant agita
tor. Both husband and wife favor
the movement, but with u varying
degree of intensity which makes for
collisions. The rani is a thoroughgoing
partisan, bu. the rajah will support
only such policies as he believes to be
right.
"I am willing," he said, "to serve
my country; but my worship I reserve
for Right, which is far greater than
my country. To worship my country
as a god is to bring a curse v.pon it."
The position of woman in India seems
to be much less restricted than might
be supposed if one is to judge from
the freedom which the rani takes, but
undoubtedly she is pictured as a singu?
larly emancipated woman, even among
the upper classes. When she complains
that women's minds are petty and
crooked, her husband replies. "Like
the feet of Chinese women. Has not
?he pressure of society cramped them
into .pettiness and crookedness? They
are bu' the pawns of the fate which
gambles with them. What responsibility
have they of their own?"
The book is not without humor, as
witness the observation of Sandip the
agitator, who is laying siege to the
heart of Bimaln, the rani: "Perhaps
I had be'ter not say much to her, but
simply seiect some modern books for
her to read. Let her gradually come to
the conviction that to acknowledge and
respecr passion as the supreme reality
is to be modern ? not to be ashamed
of it, not to glorify restraint. If she
finds shelter in some such word as
'modern' she will find strength "
In the end the love of the ran: for
the rajah proves stronger than her
love for Sandip or Pwade?h. The
book is an interesting study in ar .'.
familiar field. H. B.
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"Red Friday"
* New Novel Tells of
Radical Activities Here
RED FRIDAT By Georg? Klbbe Turn?r
Published by Little, Hronn & Co 26;
pages. Price $1 40.
"Red Friday" pictures what might
happen to America through the union
of a Bolshevist agitator and an
unscrupulous Wall Street operator.
The financial plot upon which they
combine is to destroy capitalism by ,
building up the national debt to over?
whelming proportions. The Bolshe?
vist keeps wages up by continually fo?
menting strikes and the Wall Stree*
operator keeps taxes up by influencing
legislation in the Senate.
There is never any lack of money to
carry on these transactions, because
the Wall Street operator keeps sp'.l.ng
short. Eventually there is a terrible
crash, which is brought about by the
Bolshevist suddenly dumping a huge
mass of securities on a weakened mar?
ket. Stocks go down to practically
1 nothing and the Exchange is closed.
Capitalism has been destroyed, but the
problem of the landholders remain?.
and just as the Bolshevist is about to
start a reign of terror, he is killed by
the heroine. The book is quite fan?
tastic and not very credible. Plango
; nev, the Bolshevist, is a well-drawn
character, and the story is exciting.
! even if its contribution to the field of
political economy seems slight.
Ibanez on Prohibition
In his new novel, to be published by
E. P. Dutton the middle of June, ?ba?ez
shows the influence of the grape on
the Spanish masses and the drunken?
ness which results. The book is titled
"La Bodega," with the sub-title "The
Fruit of the Vine." It is translated by
Dr. Isaac Goldberg and promises to
be interesting as well as timely. Dutton
also publishes Ib?nez's "Blood and
Sand," now in its sixth edition, and
"The Shadow of the Cathedral," in its
: twelfth.
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Well, Girls?
Simon Pure, who writes the London
, letter to "The Bookman," is a thorough?
ly practical young man In the June
."Bookman" he says: "Whenever I hear
of a young man's becoming engaged
to 'a most charming girl' I always
callously ask, 'Can she cook?' Will it
? be believed that the reply most fre?
quently made is ar. indignant 'I don't
know. She's a magnificent pianist!'
j As though that cut any ice!"
"Nihla Quellen!"
The German F mha?^ ** -ruent?
whimpered the magic name of
the fatnoii* dancer a- the
dashed thru the Turki?!)
moonlight ? an irresistible
creature of recklet.*. gaiety
vho had ??et all r.urope
IIIHMJalg,
i - h y>
/ .,' In a few hours this laughing shp of a
\ ?.', v French girl was to be lost in a Parisian
-__L,.N?? _ ^: night?to be ?wallowed up in the
moorhght; in a few months to turn up
aione, unknown, in the reek and whir! ot Broadway,
pursued, haunted, entangled in a tightening web ot
German fabrications, from which it takes ^ ankee in?
genuity and an American lover to rescue her.
The
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may-care adventure?, thi? new
Chamber?' novel la the hook
(or you.
Moonlit
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Most of us are fed ui 01 I
the war At IM Dur i ? ''
apparc-.' ly offe I
heightens an op] ???
the gent ral med ocrii
tales.
The Btory cor ceri
sponding to the ?nc nat o .*
offers him
the beginning of hostilities i - I
Overcoming t'.r.ancial and other difl
culties with a tirrr.n?
characteristic of our nov<
he finally becomes (or evei
modestly") a ?severel; woui
of the Lafayet'p Escadrille
the conventional hos] -
nurse combination which, of
will redeem the book.
Told in c im pie narrativ?
true Horatian or. rather. A geriai
there is little if any attempt at
acterizntion and only an amat< ir I
realism which leaves one unthr
not bored.
The incidents are based on actual)
ties, and, though this adds to the sin
cerity of 'he tale, it detracts too from
the imaginative appeal ?u> necessary for
cumulative interest. This, we think,
is why the book misses fire. The un?
mistakable sincerity, though, ?- con
mendable, and only because of '
the book worth while. D. L. G.
You Know 'Em. Too
"It's funny how we hate to face real?
ities. I knew a commuter once who
rode into town every day on the B:13
But he used to call it thp 7:73 He
said it made him feel mor' vil .
:- From "The Haunted Bookshop." by
Christopher Morley, in the June "Book?
man."
And then there's the chrp who nets
\ his clock half an hour ahead at night,
so he can turn over in the morning and
jget an extra nap.
Pat Crowe,
Aviator
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