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Stirred by that bombardment, vexed that a chemist dared to make a medical statement were Dr. Morris Fishbein, A. M. A. publicist, and Chemist Paul Nicholas Leech, director of the A. M. A.'s chemical laboratories. Chemist Leech whipped off a telegram to President Edward Bartow of the American Chemical Society, and rushed to Pittsburgh to protest in person. The Leech telegram: "Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and I join in protest to the American Chemical Society against the use of its agency in aiding the premature and unethical exploitation of this...
...Fishbein immediately reinforced this by giving all news agencies copies of a vigorous editorial which he intended to publish in the next issue of the A. M. A. Journal, The editorial...
With these techniques and theories, Dr. Fishbein had no quarrel. What he did object to was the following advice by Writer Terhune...
Denouncing this attitude as "subversive," Editor Fishbein declared that dog bites are not matters for self-treatment but for physicians and public health officials. As against Mr. Terhune's belief in the rarity of hydrophobia, he gave these data...
...least that can be done," said Dr. Fishbein, "is to cauterize the wound and place the biter under observation in the city pound or a dog hospital. If he develops the disease, begin the Pasteur treatment at once if it has not already been started. ... In 99 out of every 100 cases treated, Pasteur treatment protects against a disease that is always fatal once it develops...