The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-26

"a NOIsiN VI y ld-tibhr pIi4l' EhrD M IN
CHAs CRAIG BEFORE THE MLTRoPoL-
ITAN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION.
The free and independent thought of this
/ age accepts statements only where they are
proven to be truth, while the development
of mental power seems equally great IN
every other department of lite, The valu
able inventions of the day are counted BY
thousands. The increase Of scientific study
is universal. The spirit Of inquiry in all
fields Is so marked as to cause
COMMENT OF EVERY SIDE,
while people seem investigating and adj
vancing IN every direction which can help
them morally, mentally or physically. This
is specially true of the human body and
everything which concerns it, and the truths
which the people have found, even in the
last fifty years, are simply marvellous. How
really ignorant some cultured and Supposed
bly, scientific people were only few years
ago, as compared with the present day,
may be better understood from a few il
Illustrative facts. A prominent writer pre-
pared as elaborate essay to prove that
steamships could never cross the Atlantic,
and his pamphlet was issued just in time to
be carried by the first steamer that went to
England. People once believed that the
heart was the seat of life and health 1t is
now known that this organ is only pump,
simply keeping in motion what other and
more important organs of the body have
created and transformed. 1t was once sup
posed that il a person felt pain in the
back, the liver was dcranged; if pain
came in the lower chest the lungs were af-
fected and consumption was near; it is now
known that pain in the back indicates
diseased kidneys, while troubles in the
lower chest arise from disordered liver
and not imperfect lungs. A severe pain in
the head was once thought to come from
some arrangement Of the brain; it is now
known that troubles in other parts of the
body away from the head, cause headaches
and that only by removing the cause can
the pain be cured. 1t is matter Of
PRIVATE HISTORY
that Gen. Washington was blcd to death.
His last illness. was slight, and caused prin-
cipally by WEAKNESS. A physician was
called who "bled him copiously." Strange
to say, the patient became nc better. An
other doctor was called, who again took
away large amount Of the vital fluid.
Thus in succession four physicians drew
away the life of great man who was in
tended by nature for an old age, and who
permanently died--murdered by malprac-
tice-bled to death. That was the age of
medical bleeding!n
The speaker then graphically described
another period which came upon the peo-
pie, in which they assigned the origin Of
all diseases to the stomach, and after show
ing the ialisity of this theory, and that the
kidney and liver were the causes of disease,
and that many people are suffering from
kidney and liver troubles to-day who do
not know ii, hut who should know it and
attend to them at once, continued:
"I.et us look at this matter little more
closely. The human body is the most per-
fec, aud yet the most delicate Of all created
things. It's capable of the greatest results
and it is liable to the greatest disorders
The slightest causes sometimes seem to
throw its delicate machinery out Of order
while the most simple and commonsense
care restores and keeps them in perfect con.
| ition. When it is remembered that the