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The Family Doctor

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 4, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 22.

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The Family Doctor

In some parts of the world, we are told, the family doctor is employed by the year, to keep the members well. If any one in the family gets sick, the family doctor visits him and prescribes for him without any charge in addition to his regular annual salary.
In the United States arrangements are made by many families for the family doctor to make monthly visits, whether his patrons are sick or not, and to give instruction upon the prevention of the prevailing diseases of that season of the year. While he does not guarantee immunity to disease, he does all in his power to keep the families in good health, and his price is only $1 for a year, twelve visits in a year.
What this American doctor proposes to do for all his patrons during the entire month of June is made known in the following program arranged for his June health mentor — Life and Health.
He will give you new ideas about “Deep Breathing,” which may be of greater value than the cost of his month’s service.
He will tell you whether you should or should not drink with your meals — the application of this question to your individual case.
He will tell you how to reduce your flesh if you have a superabundance.
Generally speaking, everybody wants to go in bathing during the summer season. Some can do so with benefit; others should refrain. The science of bathing is included in the doctor’s list. It alone will be worth more than 10 cents.
The doctor will spend some time in your kitchen, teaching hygienic methods of cooking. He is a good cook.
The doctor is very much interested in the disease pellagra. He believes people need to know far more about it in order to avoid it. He will tell you that your general diet will have a great deal to do with contracting this disease, or with being immune from it. He will examine the soil about your premises, in search of pellagra germs.
If you ever have hay fever, the doctor will give you valuable prescriptions for its cure and prevention.
The doctor has been making a special study of science and alcohol, and will give you many new facts gathered from many sources on Alcohol Not a Food; Booze Not a Safety-First Element; Alcohol a Handmaiden of Pneumonia; Business and Booze Not on Friendly Terms; Booze an Enemy to Prosperity; Prohibition an Asset; Dry Towns Better than Wet Towns; Narcotic Drugs, Their Past and Present Use in Medicine.
The doctor will call at your house, and taking plenty of time, he will in a very familiar way counsel with you about the baby’s sore eyes; diet for flatulence; milk and sugar combinations; starchless vegetables; nonacid fruits; rupture; color of good butter; why cheese is harmful; a hacking cough; dizziness when arising; coated tongue, constipation; milk with sweets; roasted peanuts; gas after meals; old sores; falling hair; breads without baking powders; onions; diet for children; difficult breathing, poor hearing; canned salmon; limestone phosphates, etc.
The doctor will also recommend some good books for you to read, and give you many of the most important health news notes of the day. In short, while his services for the month will cost you only 10 cents. Dr. Life and Health will bring to you a service that cannot be estimated by monetary comparisons. Call for this doctor for yourself and family, and you will be sure to recommend him to others. June services, only 10 cents; yearly services, only $1.