The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-06-11
A GREAT REVELATION,
Some Valuable Thoughts Concerning HUI.
man Happiness and Timely Sug-
gestiOns About Securing it.
Synopsis of Lecture Delivered by
DR.. Chas. Craig Before the Metro
politan Scientific Asso-
citation.


labors under difficulties Of which the speakers
of the last century never dreamed, for while
the audiences of the past received what was
SAID without question, those of the present day
are usually the mental equals or superiors of
Tie ones who address them. Rev. DR.. Tying, of
New York, when theological student, sup
pied church In a neighboring town, and on
MS way to preach one morning met an aged
colored man. Wei, uncle, do you ever go to
hear the young preacher asked the unfedged
doctor. No, massa, replied the negro. dis
chile don't let none O. them students practis on
him. The darkey had begun to think. The
free and independent thought of this age ac-
cepts statements only where they are proven to
be truth, while the development of mental pow
er seems equally great IN every other depart
ment of life. The valuable inventions of the
day are counted by thousands. The increase
of scientific study is universal. The spirit of
inquiry IN all helds is so marked as to cause
COMMENT ON EVERY SIDE,
while people seem investigating and advancing
III every direction which can help them morally.
mentally or physically. This is specially true
of the human body and everything which con-
Germs it, and the truths which the people have
found, even III the last fifty years, are simply
marvellous. How really ignorant some cultured
and supposedly scientific people were only
few years ago, as compared with the present
day, may be better understood from few IL
prepared
an 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 aud
health. 1t is now known that this organ is only
a pump, simply keeping in motion what other
and more important organs of the BODY have
created and transformed 1t was once sup
posed that if a person felt pain in the back,
the liver was deranged; if pain came in the
lower chest the lungs were affected and con-
sumption was near; it is now known that pain
III the back indicates diseased kidneys, while
troubles in the lower chest arise from a diSor-
dered liver and not imperfect lungs. A severe
pain in the head was once thought to come
from some partial arrangement of the brain; it
is now known that troubles in other parts of
the body and away from the head, cause head
aches and that only by removing the cause can
the pain be cured. 1t is a matter of
PRIVATE HISTORY
that Gen. Washington was bled to death. His
last illness was slight, and caused principally
byweariness. Aphysician was called who 'bltd
HIM coplOusly.' Strange to say, the patient be-
came no better. Another doctor was called
who again took away q large amount of the
vital fluid. Thus in succession four physicians
drew away the life of q great man who was in
tended by nature for an old age, and who
prematurely died-murdered by malpractice
bled to death. That was the age Of medical
bleeding"
The speaker then graphically described an
other period which came upon the people, in
which they assigned the origin Of all diseases to
the stomach, and after showing the falsity of
this theory, and that the kidneys and liver were
the causes of disease, and that many people are
suffering from kidney and liver troubles to-day
who do not know it, but who should know it
and attend to them at once, continued
LET us look at this matter little more close
ly. The human body is the most perfect and
yet the'm most delicate of all created things. II
is capable of the greatest results and it is LA
BILE the greatest disorders. The slightest caus-
es sometimes seem to throw its delicate machin-
cry out of order while the most simple and COM
nonsense care restores and keeps them in per-
feet con dition. When it is remembered that
the amount of happiness and misery we are to
have in this world is dependent upon perfect
body, is it not strange that simple precautions
and care are not exercised? This is one of the
most vital questions of life. People may avoid
it for the present, but there is certain to come
time in every ones experience when it must
be faced.
"And here pardon me for relating little
personal experience. In the year 1870 found
myself losing both in strength and health.
could assign no cause for the decline, but it
continued, until finally / called to my aid two
prominent physicians. After treating me for
some time they declared | was suffering from
Bright's disease of the kidneys, and that they
could do nothing more for me. AT this time /
was so weak could not raise my head from the
pillow and 1
PAINTED REPEATEDLY.
10, Lo.A l. L.