Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-12-02
KEYTEsvILIE MO, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2 1886.
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Read before the County Medical Society, Novemb
%, lss6.-Publishcd by request of the Society.
Man was so vigorous at the start,
He needed not the healing art
He had no aches, no greyious ills,
He paid no drug or doctor bills.
He spent his days in open air,
Ne'er shaved his face, nor cut his hair.
No dainty fare for him was spread,
No moss or feathers in his bed
No knives, no for&s, no plates, no dishes
His meager fare was fruit and fishes.
From filthy swine with cloven hoof,
Who chewed no cud, he kept aloof;
The hawk, the buzzard and the owl,
Moses declared uacleanly fowl
However proper for Gentle
Such diet will Jew defile.
As man increased in power and wealth
He disobeyed the laws of health;
4 In wine and women took delight,
i And wanton reye!ry at night.
! Who might in paradise have stayed,
Had he the laws of God obeyed.
| Sad was the day when from his side,
God took the rib that made his bride;
By her sweet charms he was begniled,
To eat the fruit-the world defled.
Still after all we must believe,
That Adam sinned as much as Eve
This view Ia by the Scriptures taken,
As both were by the Lord forsaken.
While man should live by sweat and toll
And cultivate the arid soil,
Eve must at home alone remain,
Bring forth her young in grief and pain
She had such perfect running gear
She never called anu accocheur.
Unless the Bible be a fable. Il
Her first two sons were Cain and Able.
Poor woman to increase her charms,
Will pinch her waist and bare her arms.
The organs being short of room,
Produced prolapsus of the womb.
The Indian tribes are not such fools
As woman taught in female schools,
No living doctor ever saw
Prolapsus in an Esquimaux.
The China women look so neat
With pig-tail hair and tiny feet
Bereft of power to run or walk,
They never CAD around and talk.
Nor rots her teeth with chewing gum.
But who can tell no " sickness came,
Or on whose head to hay the blame.
Was it by Providence decreed?
Did He implant the mortal seed?
Is this the cause, the reason why
Ehe human race get sick and die?
How can the fault at our door lie,
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When infants in the cradle die?
Unnumbered legions pass away s- 4
Who never saw the light Of day.
We are to blame beyond doubt tisi
For having itch, lice and gout.
But who can charge the fanit to us,
Of mectles, Group or ietanus? .l,
No doubt some maladies attack US,
Who worship at the shrine of baccus.
The man who fills his tank with beer
From kidney troubles stands in fear.
Jirrhotic liyer's prone to come 'r'ta1
From brandy, whiskey, gin and rum.
The lore of all the ages past
Has been upset by Koch at last
Man sickens, pines away and dies
Devoured by mierococcies.
As every living, creeping thing
That walks the earth or hops the wing,
Was By Almighty power created.
As al the Scriptures fatty stated, u iq f
The fault on him must sure be laid-gl
Unless the microbes are selfmade. yagIi
e God has sOwn the mortal seed, |
Dur fate has surely been decreed.
We can at once stand up and claim,
That on our heads there rests no blame.
1t every step the folly's seen 4
'or so much clamor for hygiene.
70 depth of sea, no mountain heights
Jan rid US of these parasites, 5f.-.ftraI
)ur cries for help in echo mock us;i Ia
We're doomed to die from micrecoecus.
lew broods are every hour created,
This all the knowing ones have stated)
4egions before our visions rise;
\ score is born for one that dies.
{ half be true that fools do write, $50
bout this cursed parasite,
)ur graves e6aced or bodies rotten.
fay we not come to this conclusion.
hat parasites are delusion!
70 doubt some men cut short their days {
'y dubious and crooked ways r
till from statistics it appears.
lost die before they reach five years.
Is matters stand it seems to be
What may be termed sub yjudice.
G.M. DEWEY, N. D.
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