Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-06-05
Scientific Gems.


EDITOR CHRONICLE :-If you are
prepared to receive it, the world
moves; and there are more evidences
OF 1t than the nomination of mother
Greeley for President. Up here in
this quiet section we do not come in
contact with the modern develop
ments to so great an extent as in our
densely populated cities, but sufficient
testimony may be gathered, even here
to establish our opening proposition
beyond the possibility of a doubt.
shall present but two instances
which may be considered as ensam-
pies, and if these do not satisfy the
reader, we have more in waiting. /
call the especial attention of the medi-
cal fraternity to these gems of science.
L think it is more than doubtful
whether the Trumbull County Medi-
cal Association is fully up with the
times. / have long suspected that
body of being fogyish. L have been
suspicious for these many months
that they were more inclined to the
discussion of Havanas, and to re-
searches into the wanderful influences
of lager, than to the Investigation of
science, or to the copious drinking in
of more sublimated spirituality
And with the developments I am
about to illustrate, day by day my
apprehensiOns are confirmed; for
when such wonderful truths have
rested for ages just beneath the sur
face, who shall say we have not been
rather stupid hitherto in passing them
unnOticedi
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ton, is this d: that among medical
practitioners it seems that a certain
select few have etranscended all bounds
hitherto set to human Investigation.
Have over-Ieaped every condition
which we have always considered as
necessary in determining the nature
of case in practice. or its treatment,
and on the wings of some unknown
sereph have scared to pluck from the
evergreen Alpine ranges Of other
spheres that knowledge which has
been by the immutable laws of our
being forbidden, except upon the con-
dition of long, patient toll and re-
search. But, Mr.. Editor, If there is
a shorter. surer road to knowledge,
think we ought to rejoice, and take il
upon ourselves to proclaim it through
out the wales of suffering. Now for
the proof of it:
Doctors attention. In 1857 had
on hand a patient, suffering from a
certain local disease-entirely local
producing no constitutional symp-
toms whatever. He was a vigorous
business man, full of life and energy.
But the local trouble seemed quite
unyielding. Seeing an advertisement
of a so-ealled Doctor, who had so far
risen above the fraternity as to be
able to defy natural law, break thrO' |
thevail separating time from eternity, !
and ask the inhabitants of other
climes for the knowledge he did not !
pOsS ess. our patient concluded to write |
him. The only conditions TO be OBJ |
served by the patient, were to give |
name and age, send lock of hair and /
"A fee. The conditions complied /
with, the doctor promised to give an |
accurate diagnosis of the disease with |
an appropriate prescription. In view |
of the distance between patient and !
doctor $500 miles), the difficulty ofthe |
case and the absence of any possible |
clue he might have to the nature of |
the trouble, and not knowing, in our |
that the doctor possessed |
the keys to the gates Of Heaven, judge |
of our curiosity and anxious waiting. |
We had not long to wait. The spirits
seem to have been rapid IN their SER
wing, and by return mail the precious |
document came. Wonderful wonder |
l could not describe it |
then, no more can now. And then
the joy, the gratitude, the wonderful
delight, ecstatic ecstaeies, perfectly |
ravishing! The only thing l have
to regret is that 1 have so long with
held it from the profession, while
numbers have fallen into
lntimely graves. 1 here give the
excepting the names of
parties, CerbdtiD1 ct MeTdtim set
nurlcfnfinl y Ifnlins nnina