the lame the halt and the blind the vital role of medicine in the history of civilization

Excerpt from The Lame, the Halt, and the BlindCommerce and sentiment  Mothers' Day  Maternity made safe  Matters for pride  More telephones, more automobiles, and more bathrooms  Also more ma ternal deaths  Mother India and Mother America  Consider the statistics  Den mark and Italy lead  America falls to the bottom of the list  Sixteen thousand mothers die  One death near at hand brings reality  A family in disaster Reckless indifference to the needs of mothers  Survival of an ancient attitude  Cruel bigotry replaced by sophistry  Savages keep no Statistics  The de cadence of woman  Child-bearing, an illness of nine months  Privileges of education denied to women-ao experiment in maternity  The Maternity Center Association  Charity merely a point of View  The lowest maternity rate in the world  A hypocritical gesture  The survivors get a. ?ower  Ten thousand needless deaths.