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Title: Wisconsin medical recorder
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Janesville : Hall & Thorne
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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ow larger. In late vears a souvenir WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 135 card is found from time to time in mymail signed simply Laura and some-how I feel that the little girl is payingher respects to the good Doctor wholives so far away in the great city. This girl is one who was fortunateamong ten thousand others who werecompelled to drag out their miserableexistence until death mercifully cameto their relief. The underworld re-ceives its growth from the new, stupidemigrants and the victims of accidentand fluctuating industrial conditions. by the laws of the social motion, somecaught in the upper current and car-ried onwards and upwards with an irre-sistible force that places them in theupper world with their ambitions firedand in a condition to compete with anyone. We shall see also a steady stream ofpeople who should know better sweptinto the lowest depths, owing to a de-fective nervous organism. No more pit-iable sight is ever seen than that of agently reared girl as she comes tumbling
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It is here we have barbaric splendor side by side with squalid poverty. They are in the main honest, but chron-ic starvation soon undermines theirhealth and morals, and after a fewyears, ambition is dead and they arecontent to live like the sparrow. Thegaudy saloon, with its brothel attach-ment, attracts many people from the up-per walks of life, who come out ofcuriosity and stay because they havebeen inoculated with the sociologic poi-son and are unable to escape. If weinvestigate we shall find a seethingmaelstrom of, humanity being: swaved downwards from a secure position in so-ciety, grasping at everything to stay herdescent, yet swept downwards by an ir-resistible social stress. Many times inthe earlier years of my practice I havebeen enabled to stop their descent andafter taking them over to some mission,have pointed out the Gospel ladder andafter telling them of the terrible dark-ness below have advised them to reversetheir course towards the light. Myclimb, sister, climb has ru

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