The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-02
rrm TrE man PAST curry ITS DEAD.

soma subject that no suggestive tHeu''y "Ou'u
have ip,imated bore any relation or Tesem-
b,snca 90 the matter to become chsng'd.
VINO would have thought, for instance, that
Gui,eau's bullet, as he putt into his pistol
would hsye reyolutouz3d tho medical no
mencla,ure, perfected su instrument to de-
tee, tho presence of lead in the human body,
effected re(rigerating invention TO keep an
even temperature in tho sick rooom,
or perfected an apparatus that would
rmt the Transportation. of n sick nen
along tho most uneven ground without tie
slightest disturbance or change in n wsler-
level placed, for example, on his body as 1t
Ii IS on the moving mattress? Yet all tbeao
good things, and others ,heyo como to pass rs
Of tue consequences otthe bed act 81 an as
s!ssin. And 50 Il hes ever been in the pact.
As Instance the radical change o. the French
government in the last century, OcBoI'eh Of
Jealousy which bracelet caused one hlBht,
or the war of Troy, bocauro beautiful
maiden cast sweet glencoa az Pr"
ans ardent Son But what we
dcsiro now 10 direct par7
iculsr attention to, 10 the demand FOR y
change in the custom Of using in cases Of
sickness, language to explain diagnosis
which 10 tho general mind conveys no ides ut
alt,and q Language too,iu which to order prr-
scrpiions lie most becloudiug to the
parties most concerned in what they are
about to introduce into their systems, under
the assumption that the physician is inlallible
10 his writing ind that the apoLhecary can
make no mistake in the compromising. We
observe that the press throughout the country
10 urging reform in thoSe.respects, aud ear'
ne,tly soliciting benellcont profession to
give practical heed 10 the almost universal
wish. If tho cad and serious accident that
cam, nigh losing for US an esteemed PRESS
dent, shall evontulta In tho Importing to
tbs people at large, what has heretofore been
70 them as sealed book as wer0 the Sybil
line pages to tho king, the bible in the dark
days to even tho church members, and the
doings Of the ''star chamber" with Their
cypher bulletins, certainly much will have
been accomplished in this exacting
day of general enlightenment. Pass
Ing from this special subject
but akin to and growing out of it is the
question now being agi!ated At the nosr
opening of the several schools, academies
aad sollcges-why bestow 30 much time and
labor upon the doad language? Tho Science
advocate is pressing tho old regime for re-
ply to this pertinent problem Of a progress
Two and practical ago. Tho social science
association, which meets at Saratoga next
week, will discuss its bearings and examine
by comparison tho boosted efficiency of the
tuition of Latin and Greek which for al nc
tual requirements Of civilizations growth
arc as dead as Julius Caesar and Socrates.
And this too is born of tho dsiaVOr and
Nllllilbul WulNH lhNb lhu hloA AllhNNlllhlhlt
bulletins that Issued from tho white
house, and wherein 6O0O0,0O0 people wero
vastly, deeply interested, though only iow
thousand physicians could comprehend the
meaning of the terms in which tho eagerly
sought matter was enyelop1d. Much COM
paint is preieTrei against tue Roman
Catholic because he roads the scriptures,
rocites his rituals and sng' Iis hymns in the
dead language of lhs carly fathers. But
shore il more c4uasu for this
than for the doClolO and toe lawyers
who persist in employing the ident-
cal selection La tue former case, coulin,
uud repetition or he iuxta-poei'ioncd Fog
lish onlighton and GmliariGo the mind with
the idea or the feeling involved, but Ia the
iattor there Is uolhin. Of tho sort "Syr
slmpluI,' "aqua purn,' q. III omne genus
aro M fearful Of sounding as arc tho o1pros-
sions usod Tor tho most deadly OF Tao poison
Gus remedies, All that The poor patient is al
lowed To know of tho mysterious package
IL that ut must DO rubbed in WE'LL" or "ho
we'll shaken before taken, or ''bo swallowed
before meats" etc. And 80 Of the newly
made sheriff snd his debtor with writ OF
'cepias or "leri rAoiss," when even whom
translated leaves tho learned novice in utter
ignorance oi what thing is to DO done or
how. lot perhaps years were spent 10 learn
the roots OF these now per so unmeaning
expressions, ye. whose fullest force IS
moro quickly understood by tho colored dop-
uty scarce out OF tho primary school than by
the university graduate, who can translate
Virgil, Horace, Liby aui tho rest by the
hour, aud even these same words which of
themselves are after all meaningless. Itis
high time that these thisgs were changed and
that tho wants OF the day were coniormed
to, and that the dead past should bury It's
dead, even though such be the dead Ian
gusges,
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VIZ DO not pretend to DO financially expert