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1909 · 4144 — F.E. Daniel 1909 Three issues of the Texas Medical Journal the "Red Back" February July and December 1909. Stapled wraps 10 x 6 3/4 inches pp.320-364 Vol.XXIV No.8 February 1909 pp.2-42 Vol.XXV No.1 July 1909 pp.210-250 Vol.XXV No.6 December 1909. Variable dampstaining; front cover of the July issue detached; but all legible. Scarce in any condition. Many entertaining period ads. Fascinating medical history. In the February issue there is an article on diabetes demonstrating a near complete misunderstanding of the pathophysiology and treatment pre-insulin era. In the July issue there is an article by the editor F.E. Daniels entitled "Elements of Decay in American Civilization" demonstrating that medical doctors are capable of the most virulent racism and anti-immigrant xenophobia. "The United States government made the initial mistake in permitting the importation of black cannibals as slaves---from whom have descended ten millions of the most undesirable citizens; and our people have mixed with them until according to Surgeon Major R.W. Shufeldt U.S.A. retired in his wonderful book 'The Negro a Menace to American Civilization' fully one-half of them have an admixture of white blood; and although intermarriage with them is prohibited in most States miscegenation is going on with all the evils to our race attendant upon hybridization---the admixture with inferior blood. Major Shufeldt says that if this goes on in course of time no man woman or child in America can be sure that he has no negro blood in his veins. The United States government made the further mistake of welcoming to its shores and absorbing countless hordes of individuals of interior races---the scourings and outcasts of the world; not the true immigrants so needed and so cordially welcomed in the young days of our Republic but paupers syphilitics consumptives criminals anarchists. The American people have already lost most of their race characteristics by interbreeding with these until we are rapidly approaching if we have not become a race of mongrels. Some of these people were paupers on arrival but amassed great wealth and became the ancestors of some of our 'aristocracy.' And their descendants drunk with wealth and luxury have ceased to breed or if they have offspring it is fewer and feebler by reason of the effeminacy induced by luxury idleness and dissipation. The tendency here is to race suicide." Referring to ".the refuse of Europe---the criminal the anarchist the pauper" the editor of this journal says "Of this class doubtless came the Orchards the Harry Thaws the Czolgozs Prendergasts the Guiteaus et id. om. gen. It is with this class and their undesirable progeny that we have to deal today and for whom we must provide asylum and jail electric chairs gallows and poorhouses. This is as irrational as trying to disinfect a sewer at the mouth while the current of filth flowing into it is ever increasing." K016. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fair. F.E. Daniel paperback