The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-16
A GREAT REVELATION.
softe Valuable Thoughts Concerning HUI
man Happiness md Timely SuRges-
tions About securing IL.

SYNOPSIS OF LECTURE DELIVERED BY DIR.
oHAs. CRAIG BEFORE THE METRO
poIITAN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION.
"The public speaker Of the present day Ia
bors under difficulties of which the speakers OF
the last century never dreamed, for while tho
audiences of the past received what was said
without question, those of the present day are
usually the mental equals or superiors of the
ones who address them. Rev. DIR. Tying, OF
New York, when theological student, supplied
a church in a ncighboring town, and on his
way to preach one morning met an aged colored
man. 1Well, Uncle do you ever go to hear the
young preacher p asked the untledged doctor:
mo, Massa, replied the negro dis chile don't
let none o. dem students -practis on him. Inc
darkey had begun to think. The free ana IN
dependent thought of this age accepts state
ments only where they are proven to be truth,
while the development of mental power seems
equally great in every other department OF lie;
The valuable 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 ON EVERY SIDE,
while people seem investigating and advancing
in every direction which can help them moral
ly, mentally or physically This is speclally
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 supposedly scientific people were
only few years ago as compared with the present
day. may be better understood from few illus
trative facts. prominent writer 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 hrst
| steamer that went to England. People once
| believed that the heart was the seat OF NE ana
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. TWAS once supposed
that if person felt pain in the back, the liver
! was deranged if pain came in the lower chest
| the lungs were affected and consump ion 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 partial
arrangement of the brain; it is now known that
| troubles in other parts of the body and 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 General Washington was bled to death
| His last illness was slight, and caused primer
| pally by weariness. Aphysician was called who
'bled him copiously' Strange to say, the
patient became no better. Another doctor was
called who again took away a large amount o
clans drew away the life of great man who wa
intended by nature for an old age, and who pre-
maturely died-murdered by malpractice
bled to death. That was the age of medica
bleeding p
The speaker then graphically described an
other period which came upon the people, il
which they assigned the origin of all diseases t.
the stomach, and after showing the falsity o
this theory, and that the kidneys and liverwer
the causes of disease, and that many people ar
suffering from kidney and liver troubles to-da
who do not know, but who should know it an
; attend to them at once, continued:
"Let us look at this matter little NOR
closely. The human body is the most perTeC
and vet the most delicate of all created thing
, 1t is capable Of the greatest results and it
liable to the greatest disorders. The slighte
causes sometimes seem to throw its delica
machinery out of order while the most simpl
and common sense care restores and Keeps the1
in perfect condition. When it is remembers
that the amount of happiness or misery we al
to have in this world is dependent upon pc
feet body, is it not strange that simple preca'
I tions and care are not exercised? This is ol
: of the most vital questions of life. People ms
( avoid it for the present, but there is certain
= come time in every ones experience when
must be faced.
j "And here pardon me for relating lit
C personal experience. In the year lS!O four
myself losing both in strength and health.
conld assign no cause for the decline, but
continued, until finally called to my aid tv
prominent physicians. After treating me f
. | some time they declared | was suffering fro
y Brights disease of the kidneys, and that tn
: could do nothing more for me. At this time
\ | was 80 weak could not raise my head from q
:. pillow and