UTILITARIAN SCIENCE 17 



the fear of things scientific has destroyed even the practical in this 

 noble old mother science which is still giving birth to new sciences 

 and to brilliant discoveries. 



Among other matters too much neglected are personal hygiene, 

 a matter to which the physician of the past has been notoriously 

 and joyously indifferent. Especially is this true as regards the 

 hygiene of exercise and the misuse of nerve-affecting drugs. 



Public sanitation as well deserves more attention. "The demand 

 for adequately trained officers of public health is not what it should 

 be, and our public service as a whole is far below that of European 

 countries. Both public opinion and university authorities are 

 responsible for this condition." 



The hygiene of childhood, in which line great advances are made, 

 is still not adequately represented in most of our medical colleges, 

 and the study of psychiatry and nervous disturbances in general 

 is not sufficiently lifted from the realm of quackery. "Not only," 

 says a correspondent, "should psychiatry be taught in every med- 

 ical school, but it should be taught from a clinical standpoint. 

 Every city in which there are medical schools should have a psych- 

 opathic hospital for the reception of all cases of alleged insanity 

 and for their study, treatment, and cure. Such a hospital should 

 contain, also, a laboratory for the study of normal and of patho- 

 logical psychology. I am convinced that progress in normal psych- 

 ology will be made chiefly through the study of abnormal condi- 

 tions, just as physiology has profited so enormously through the 

 work of the pathologist." 



A word should be said for veterinary medicine and its achieve- 

 ments of enormous economic value in the control of the contagious 

 diseases of animals. The recent achievements of vaccination against 

 the Southern cattle fever and against tuberculosis, the eradication 

 of the foot and mouth disease among other matters, have demanded 

 the highest scientific knowledge and the greatest skill in its practi- 

 cal application. 



Unfortunately, veterinary science lacks in this country adequate 

 facilities for research and instruction. "Practically," says a cor- 

 respondent, "the veterinary sciences in the United States are lead- 

 ing a parasitic existence. We are dependent almost wholly upon 

 the results of investigation and teaching of European countries, not- 

 ably Germany and Denmark. The value of the live-stock industry 

 here is so tremendous that almost every state in the Union should 

 have a w r ell-equipped veterinary school supported by public funds. 

 There is but one veterinary school in the United States that has 

 anything like adequate support." That this is true shows that our 

 farmers and stock-raisers are very far from having an adequate 

 idea of one of the most important of their economic needs. 



