Word: kretschmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rise in degenerative diseases is not surprising: they are common diseases of old age. But doctors are convinced that, given as much money as has been spent for research in the war against germs, they could do something about physical degeneration too. Chicago's Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer drew a moral in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "Prevention of chronic [degenerative] illness begins with . . . proper personal hygiene, right living and suitable diet ... an annual physical examination...
...Herman Louis Kretschmer, incoming president of the Association, repeated organized medicine's objections to the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill (semisocialized medicine), which for twelve months has been in Congressional committee. Said he: "I believe it is incumbent on every physician in this country to devote at least two hours a day to educating the people in his community as to the significance of such legislation"-i.e., against...
Wrote Dr. Herman Louis Kretschmer of Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "There seems to be a prevailing notion that ... all that is necessary to effect a cure is to perform an orchiectomy [castration]. It is extremely unfortunate. . . . Results are . . . anything but desirable...
...Kretschmer's blunt boo gains force from his experience with eleven castrated patients who had some prostatic tissue cut out besides: "Three of the patients are dead [after] five, eight and eleven months; one patient is bedridden, requiring frequent doses of morphine; three patients have pain; one patient had painful urination and attacks of hematuria [bloody urine]; only three say they are improved after eleven, seven and three months respectively." (Procastration doctors say that Dr. Kretschmer is wrong to discount the initial improvement in his patients, even if it is short-lived...
...castration argument is not over. Many doctors are castration zealots. Others, like Dr. Kretschmer, are dead set against it. Drs. Herger and Sauer take the middle ground: they do not invariably castrate all prostatic-cancer patients, but recommend castration 1) for patients who do not respond to female sex hormones, 2) to prolong and ease the lives of men whose cancers have become widespread...