Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-10


family in the skill and fidelity of the attend
ing physician, and of criticising the treat
ment pursued, suggesting different prac-
tlce or another physician.
| should say with emphasis that clergy
man who would stoop TO such meanneSs as
this Is unworthy of recognition by phySl-
cian-that he has no rights which gentle
man Is bound to respect. 1t Is no part of the
right of the clergyman TO assume in any de-
gree the medical treatment of the sick man.
As a man of sense. he should encourage the
nurse and friends of the sick man 10 observe
to the letter the Instructions of the physi-
clan. He may properly remind them that,
rule it is bad policy to change physi-
clans after case has become critical and
that the wiser course is to seek the best
counsel TO be obtained, and to follow I'M
plicitly the directions Of the attending phys
ician, and to hold him to a full responsibility
for the treatment OF the case.
1t may sometimes be insisted by physicians
that religious services unduly excite their
patieuts--that this excitement is exhauSting,
and liable to be followed by reaction and
prostration. In reply TO this, it NAV be
suggested that clerical practice. like
medical practice, assumes SQUAD judg-
ment and good sense on the part of
the practitioner. Religious services proper
ly conducted-the reading of the scriptures
and prayer-marked by sincerity, simplicity
ana NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. without gloom
earnest and devout Yet free from cant-such
services tend, not tn excite and exhaust the
sick man, but 10 soothe and strengthen him.
They do this through the direct appeal for
wisdom and help from Him under whose CON
troll are all agencies, and in whose hands are
all lives There are clergymen to whom
physicians say: Our patients are better at
ter your visits.
THE FUNCTION AND OFFICE Or RELIGION.
Fanaticism and superstition are sometimes
exciting causes of insanity: more frequently
they are the results of unsound mental con
dition.
The statement occasionally made that re-
ligiouS excitement is prominent am ing the
causes of insanity does not seem to be CON
hrmed by statistics.
Of | 1892 cases in Kansas, 50 cases or So
per cent are alleged to be caused by religious
excitement. One of large experience IN the
treatment OF the insane SAYS: Il doubt if
persons of well balanced minds are very
often made insane by religious excitement
alone"
Genuine religion, the handmade of reason.
brings to mankind ministry ALWAYS cheer
ing and benefcent 1t tends to promote
health of body and of mind 1t insists on in
duStry, sobriety, purity, and observance of
natural laws. 1t enjoins that confidence in
IL
able to mental quiet. All its influences, di-
rect and incidental are in the line of secur-
ing the ideal Sana mems i'll sano corpore.
COMMON GROUND.
The cure of the body and the cure of the
soul alike include the departments of nre
vention and relief
Sanitation and medication are required
both by the body and by the soul. The more
Intelligent and thoroug b the sanitation, the
less will be the need of medication The
better the sanitary measures for the body.
the less demand will there be for hospitals
and asylumS The better the sanitary meas
ures for thu soul, the less demand will there
be for prisons and scaffods. Therefore. on
this common ground OF prevention and re-
lief, the physician and the clergyman meet
The sanitary convention and the Sunday
school convention have essentially the same
justification. The medical colleges and the
theological seminary have similar origin
The institutions and the instrumentalitie of
the medical profession and of the clerical
profession have IN view the same end-the
welfare of men through prevention and
relief
To say that physicians desire the preva-
ence of disease and the spread of epidemics
N order that they may reap q pecuniary
harvest therefrom, is as stupid and false as it
y
prevalence of sin and crime in order that
heir services may be in demand at good
prices.
1t is one of the highest of the many hOnOr5
secured by the medical profession that its
members were the earliest as they are the
most active, advocates of systematic and
sanitation. | take special pleasure
n referring TO the fact that friend of my
college days c. b. White. NJ D. for several
of orl e 1-b
IF the city of New Orleans was one of the
ounders of tbs American Public Health as
ISOLATION which held its fourteenth annual
session at Toronto, CanadO. October f. 1856
We believe with Lord Bacon. who said
i hold every man debtor TO his profession;
rom the which men or course do seek TO
'ecelve countenance and profit. so ought they
II duty TO endeavOr themselves BY way of
amends to be "A help and ornament thereto
Interest in MATTERS within the scope of the
medical profession and OF the clerical trofes- |
ion Will endure 50 long As men continue to /
AVE bodies and souls
The most acute and comprehensive of all /
observers has shown us that he had closely |
md successfully studied the signs of aD- |
preaching dissolution. For after | saw
Tim tumble with the sheets and play with |
lowers. and stuile upon his fingers ends, /
knew there was but one way: tor his nose
vas sharp as Il pen, and 'babbled OF green .
ields."
4 score and half OF centuries before
Shakespeare wrote, Job had asked: '.If a man
lie, shall be live again:
Two thousand years ago Terence uttered ,
ointment that has never ceased To stir the /
Hood of men hike the sound of q trumpet .
when he declared: Homo sum, ct nihI hu- /
mani aiienum me puto-I am a man and .
egard as foreign TO myself nothing that per
aims to humanity.
With higher inspiration than that of the /
Roman, st. Paul declare to the Athenians- I
rod hath maize of one blood all nations of .
neu to dwell on all the face of the earth
Today We repeat the sentiment of the poet .
na taat of the apostlr-we pass on the /
Satchword Of humanity. The dual man
possessed of body and OF souI-dying from .
he hour Of his birth. vet endowed with end. .
-, life-~ hateyer affects his welfare IS Of .
interest TO Us
school Hygiene" was the subject treated .
y Mrs. II. Z. Lease. Her paper i given in .
ull:
| can give no other reason for being ac-
oried the honor OF speaking before this dis
lnguished asSmbiage Of Intelligent ladies
ud houored gentlemen, than thar / am q
Mother and As such take deep and abiding
interest IN all that pertains 10 the hygiene vi
b. hom- and school
Hygiene i but another name for physical
tucatioH. and the paramount Importance Of
hy~Ical education 70 thu Young cannot Iu
~ manner he Unduly emphasized. one Of
" distinguished medical sage. one Whose
anne l. word known and world nOuor.-i.
,r Oliver WrEiell Hoims, ha- SAID that
1.-THE diseases AMI ills which humanity in
=git, can lie cured, but that yiih many
I them we must Begin two or
areo hundred year, before the patient Il
ORR.
r view. We cannot b.gIn too soon with The
niidreu OF TO-DAY. who VIII - the m~n aad
omen Of tomorrow Out o. the -rngol-