MUST RECORD SOCIAL DISEASES 245 



MEDICAL MEN MUST MAKE A 



RECOED OF ALL CASES OF 



SYPHILIS. 



To cover up and conceal the hereditary 

 and social ills of man, laws have been 

 passed to close the lips of the medical pro- 

 fession about the family failings, diseases 

 and achievements. We do not improve 

 the breed of a horse, or any animal, by 

 concealing his ancestral history and fail- 

 ings. Then, why conceal human failings; 

 why not let the life of man be as an open 

 book? Let the medical profession make 

 man's life record a public record, just as 

 we record the building of a grand struc- 

 ture or the incumbrances and easements on 

 property in our Halls of Eecord. It will 

 do more to breed a healthy nation and to 

 save our daughters from disease and mis- 

 ery. An innocent girl married into one of 

 the oldest families of New York to find that 

 no one outside of their distinguished family 

 doctor knew it was tainted with hereditary 

 insanity; that some one of his family was 

 constantly in a sanatorium with fits of tem- 

 porary insanity; and that in other branches 



