The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-05-25
DIR. GrlIUN'S LECTURE,


applause, ut the conclusion OF which DR..
Reeves introduced DR.. Gihon.
wl DIR. GIMON'S LECTURE,
Eloquent AMI Entertaining Address.
"ifcnfth, the True Nobility"
The hall OF tho House OF Delegates con.
tanned good many ladies aud other persons
outside Of the membership OF the Medical
Association last night, when DR.. Reeves, the
President, introduced DR.. A. l.. Gihon,
Medical Director OF the United States Navy,
chairman OF Section on State Medicine of the
American Medical Association, and President
OF tho American Public Health Association.
His subject was "lIealth, the True Nobility"
md the paper WIS originally read before the
latter association ut Savannah, Ca, III No.
vcmber. u.3.
The distinguished speaker was received
with hearty applause.
/. The doctor In introducing his subject
asked which is the farest OF ba6cs?
What man tho manifest? Who among
women the qucenliest woman?
IT The infant ushered into the world
amid nations plaudits, cratllcd in damask,
and surrounded by all the luxuries of wealth,
whose dull eye and feeble vail bc.okens its
dire inheritance from gencratians OF royal sin.
ners; or the rosy child, without spot or
blemisl, feeding ut the mothers breast
which has never ached with pain?
as it the man who daily wakes from rest.
less slumber TO battle with the body's ills
| that have pursued him from birth, or ure tho
fruits, OF his own i'll living, or hc whose
sound mind domiciles sound body?
us it she who braids her thin and yagrant
locks with tho tresSes OF other women and
who tints her saiiow and iscotorcd checks
artiNcially till they resemble the roseato
hue OF health, or she who passes from, a
healthy youth into the perfection OF glorious
wOmanhood?
What is it that eloriiies Childhood, woman.
hood, manhood2 1t is health"
Here followed q glowingAn most eloquent
culogy, Of health-nature's simplest faith,
whose liturgy can be written so that babes
can understand. II so easy to live right why
necessary to teach anyone? This Is the great
mystery OF mankind. A perverted religious
sentiment is responsible for this degradation
Of health. There prevails an impression that
tho body is inherently vile. The priyations
and self imposed su!serines OF the ancient
monk and recluse were the outsrow,h OF this
spirit. -
The speakers only intention vas 10 nfo.ce
upon MS hearers the wronefulneSs of the
neglect which had grown out of this belief in
TIC degradation OF the body, and the neces-
sity OF overcoming this and cultivatins the
house otmade with hands, l,iel, estates
arc valuelcss compared to the lie itaEe OF
health. How great, then. the interest the
State should take in the health OF the indi-
yihual; Diseased parents beget diseased chill
dreh. While great attention to the teachings
Of science is paid in the breeding Of
cattle, the mother surrenders her
daughter to be welded to man
with \ tainted constitutions; the healthy
father saes his healthy son Deliberately tux.
ing to wife the inhcritor OF another fathers
in!irmi.ies. Men grasp and hoard, and in
premature age sit down before heaps of gold
which was to purchase pleasures they have no
longer the capacity TO enjoy.
The iiFst law Of health is Hygcia's mandate:
be clean. One hall the deaths thGt arc now
being mourned throughout the world need
not have happened had this one law been
obeyed: rrevcntabIe diseases arise from
filth. The clean and the unclean sit side by
side, the sound person breathing in
the noAlous cmanations OF some IN.
fortunate honey.combed by disease. The
deplorable poison of overcrowdng is always
present where people congrecate. How sell
dom does person travelling Inspect the ven
tilatlon Of the Cur or boat. And II occasion.
ally one does open window to feast his
furnished blood with fresh air. how general
IS the cry that he is endangering the health
Of others BY exposing them to draugEt.
Few q us would care TO enter u bath already
used BY anotheT but possibly The air would
be much more poisonous when others have
breathed it over and over, than the second.
hand bath. The necessity OF fresh air cam
not be over estimated. Tile iii ventilated
schools and churches are working Il deadly
work, md half the victims Of typhoid and
other diseases die before their time. +
The subject OF food has heretofore mon.
opo!lzed the attention OF hygenis.s to the
EXCLUSION OF the weightier matter OF pure
mir. Diet is matter Of minor Importance.
Eat whut you please, only be sure and cat
enough. Danish tic heresy that it is wise TO
rise from the table hungry. Above ali do
not send the little ones hungry to bed, their
empty stomachs inspiring their uneasy
slumber with horrid dreams. The cook is n
mighty power. Educate the ruler of the
drawing room so that she can intel.getly
supervise his iabors. Dignity his calling,
The subject OF dress and the determining in
tluence OF the corset and French heel next
received attention, and the remarkable pnn"r
closed with general review Of the causes Of
the prevalent i'll health, and M appeal to tie
public TO see that ignorancs or prejudice
were rooted ont, and no longer allowed 10
warp men and women from the right living
whicn alone can guarantee them the good
health all must coyet aud so few possess,
The physicians themselves were not held
blameless. They were accused OF narrowing
the true scoop, Of their calling, and becoming
mere curers Of disease. - 20
The close Of the address, which was listened
to throughout with rapt attention, was
greeted with yociierous applause, and on
was adopted. I'll "'N
The meeting was then turned into an i'm.
prompttu reception, 4 number Of those pres
e e. embracing the opportunity to meet Dr..