Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-07-19

years since its first principles discovered. The
clients might have made glass and worked the metals but
their operations mechanical those OF the house
wife who bakes a loaf of bread. They had hardly begun
to dabbe in Alchemy in its search for the philosophers
stone.
They knew but little medicine and nothing of phys
ioogy and Zinute anatomy. Medicine is so dependent
chemistry that they had no key unlock its secrets
while physiology and minute anatomy sealed sciences
without the microscope.
And here it is proper to say that the speaker was par
tcuarly unfortunate in his comments upon that great
modern discOvery-the circulation of the blood The
quotations he introduced to substantate the knowledge
of the ancents with it, only proved what the first mur
derer when he slew his yictim-what the first sur
geon in all time found out when he dressed his first
wound, to wit that the blood What Harvey dis
covered is the fact that the blood flows circiethat
it goes from the heart through the arteries TO the
treme circumference of the body and returns 10 e heart
through the veins Its going out the first half OF The
circle its return is the last half and completes it. 1t is
not mere drifting on the current of life through
straight channel but a complete circulation. This cir
cnlar movement of the blood through the body with
corresponding through the lungs, is what phys olo
gists denOmnate the Circulation of the blood, pro-
Of which the ancients wefr ignorant they
of the Magnetic Telegraph.
The application the Moxa in the ofMr Sunner'
was the DR.. told us, but repetition of ancient
practice. Every surgeon Of half dozen years standing
has employed in the treatment e certain diseases and
thought it nothing singular. Mr. Sumner was illus
trous patient, and he chose lustrtous surgeon.
But notice CT this address is sufficiently extended
to indicate belief in the higher civilization in which
we live. We cannot reconcile ourselves to the opinion
that two three thousand years have passed. and yet
our race with many means of progress has not ad-
yancedthat many hopes and aspirations clngng to
our humanity of coming future to be rendered void
In many of his inerences was the speaker mistaken.
He referred to Homer, aLd yet in matters OF history
Homer Is not lcred reliable authority. His heroes
and her ines regarded by many fabulous Troy
has certain existence in the past and even the poet
himself has been supposed myth. Again, arc not
justified in the absence Of such proof would be easy
to render. il believing that the rail road the pyra
mids spoken of had existence but in fancy and
not the musical sounds said to have been emitted
by the statute of Memnon like the responses of the Del
phian oracle but the juggcry Of Egyptian priests, and
may not suppose this to have been the when
hentt history Informs that the head OF the statute
shattered by the king Cambyses with this charge
against it in his mouth?
IN closing have express the great pleasure re.
ccvcd in listening this discourse As an intellect tual
effort it was far in advance Of anything Of the kind we
ever heard. If differ in opinion we can still admire
the talent and research which umines each page, the
humer which parklcs in the right place and the learning
which graces the whole performance. II is truly gem
in literature.