The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-27

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sun hn1hfng tke wcxid IN purple Esd
r6sd, and he eyening spt<nd0f kIssfn4
fke rosa 70 &jeep. yet rOue dfe1med
thsx Il uxs the earth that moved.
vhf1e the ran, The mighty senfine1 q
insrsfy. moved imperrepsih3y- 1he
fzls.ry uzs q lat exp{uicsl ~ An In
novzxos-snd Il came near costinE him
his life because Is shocked the co..
seyvxrive<.r
TIE Traveller Who starts on his Jour-
rey az Midnight has Tar fnore 70 fear
during the 6fss few hosrs he grspes
his wry than alter the purp.lnR snst
herzl.ts the approach Of day, more 70
fear during the uncertain light of I'M
ioIdinx dawn than after the golden
spsen.sor OK the sun foods his path
With radiance
just 80. far back in the history Of
medicine they blnndersss along, en-
piosinx the naosf keroic measures. the
most deadly minerals. the mot iosfh-
=sme corrections that the brain could
conceive, and the iexacies or heir;oomz
has. been xeaiousls defended for ern-
fnrics, only disczrshng tbena when tn.
ianov.sars compelled them by their
success 10 reluctantly reiinqri-h their
oetopzs hold.
The oh. schools Of Medicine. clad in
the ancient mantle Of utter conservst-
ism. whose ample rotes. have, as they
swept down the corridors Of the cen
turies, caught and held 50 much Of the
Teachings Of Hippccrates, CELSIUS and
Galea, ke4ry aisa antiquity. ever rev
erenfiy wcYshiping the odd while they
invariably cumbAttezi innovations
and viewed with cynical skepticism
each new discovery. Can such body
be regarded safe 10 trust ones physi-
cal happiness WITH
Eyeryirregular move in medicine has
been protest against the harharities
Of the sid irrational congiomerzte- II
must he remembered that every step
taken has been bitterly contested by
thoze tn power. but after failing q
crush the beneficial innovation they
have been compelled to embrace IT,
Come, wake up and move on said
the people 10 the old school. accept
the new teaching or We viii leave you
TO starve, and thus in spite of their
conservatism they have had 10 move
on, to be sure always away behind the
times. but still they crawied snail-like
and painfully along. far in the rear
of the started standard bear
era Of progressive thought. Slowly
and re5eiiiousiy they had to accept the
discoveries of those whom they de
nonnced as dangerous quaeks- Many
have been the rude ayakenings that
this time honored old school has suf-
fered from progressive thought.
But fame Is earned. not merely by
things written. but by ardsons gre@s-
ness of deeds accam, Led Every
assault upon 'sie iuIpregnabie citadel
Of trns selenee has added numheriess
7ecrisits to It's cause. The ammunition
OF caluInny has been exploded. The
deadly projecfiles hurled have missed
their destination. The shafts and ar
rows lie broken at the feet OF victory.
And when AHrora's rays shall have
Z pierced the smoke of the beautiful. the
name OF the histogenetic system oi
meiicine viii glitter bright and inn
perishahie sun in the diadem of sci
ence, when those who tried 10 wind
their Shiny coils around its snowy
I throat have mculdercd in oblivion and
their epitaphs have vanished from the
I face of the earth.