Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1935, Page 38

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1935. DOCTORS FROWN . ‘ e SHIC! HAND-PICKED s S Lansburghs [\ RTSs poses Principle, Although | |, : N v , YEAR 7th,8th & E It Recognizes Problem. The American medical profession| & = . 3 YH Y) ,\ ) g ‘ generally opposes the principle of [ i 4% B ) “mercy deaths” although there is a| - ; 5 = i ] school of thought which holds there 3 . % e T Ess h ¢ : i - are cases where the humanitarian 7 . ) | aspect weighs powerfully against legal | e TR A > We s R t e . or ethical argument. i s g ¢ : ; . : The question, an old one, has been brought up onge riore as the result of an interview in the London Daily | : : /N : 7 ! P Mail in which an unidentified English 7 : - i & S l doctor, who is drawing wide support, 5 E / PC[]a (It says in five instances he has taken| - AR B i | ) Tive here mental blight or “incur- able” disease doomed the patient to lay suffering. = i From Dr. William Gerry Morgan, . . eminent Washington physician and | : i former president of the American | : 2 Medical Society, today came a well- £ 2 ¥ considered statement of opposition, characterizing the “right to die” theory as “unsoun “Especially is this so because physi- 4 ecians have the means at hand of re- 4 0 lieving of their distressing symptoms o= It's the small dress hat that assumes individuals suffering from incurable F 2 \ . 5 TR . ) T disease, without actually taking life. § great importance with fashion’s Courageous at Death. . edict of daytime formality . . . For ‘ “rt n\a_\f‘ be argu;d &hgr. E’aa{anm;‘ ! e A i d g aS lons remove from such individuals $ eaing, matinee parties, dress-up 3 horror of death. However, I have : learned from long experience that in . \ luncheons and ‘making the rounds’ the vast majority of cases, through | o ;he mebfc_l;f oo eouaes :Zuga‘;‘i‘:“:;{ | ‘ ; 3 of smart bars . . . one of these gay FOR GAY uman gs to fac the approach of death.” o« - little sophisticated affairs in velvet, An interesting contrast appears in \ \ the view of Dr. Prentis Willson, an- . W & lamé_ baghecra or felt. other leader in the medical world here, { 2 2 expounded last vear before the Medi- X > . cal Society of the District of Colum- bia, in his presidential address. “Why,"” he asked, “should the phy- gician, who bravely accepts the horrid | but legal task of destroying the unborn | child that the mother may live, be forced to stand impotently by and S watch the agony of parents with an in- | > A nocent, hclpgle=s babe condemned by D. Begheera Tu congenital defect or birth trauma, to | ¢ a life in which idiocy must be prayed | p & \ . T el W N : LANSBURGH'S—SECOND FLOOR only to withhold the hand of mercy | & from the suffered in the terminal| stages of cancer, in that awesome room wherein cries for pity mingle with the stench of putrefying flesh, | but to employ every resource of science ‘ to prolong the torture, on some such fallacious and specious pleas as ‘while there is life there is hope,’ or ‘the func- tion of the doctor is only to save and prolong life’?"” Hope Is Tradition. However, the traditional belief that “where there is life, there is hope™” was said by Dr. Herbert R. Ramsey, chair- | man of the Medical Society’s Commit- | tee on Public Information, to be held Our Reg“lal’ by the majority. | Meanwhile, the Associated Press re- ported that the matter was attracting $ -0 wide interest in England, and that Lord . . and DU, Moynihan, one of the country’s most distinguished surgeons, had disclosed Lord Moynihan announced the grou pe . . %t £ group thrilling ‘state ocasicus when you're dressed : e it eng SHO E S y : N N ' line and prévoke flattery on every side! We / “laying the wholl tion before | N X i our stogks, i whole proposition before B : 2 it i i y propo or A. xR \ . with Grecian draped neck, front fullness. And a and excitingly/ new in fasjfion detajls! cumstances to the next Parliament. Sizcs 11 ‘7 d d.‘ 1k -17. - and the likes. ! / Prof. Julian Huxley, the Earl of furs. 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