The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-06-23

Ceutzriey were ushexed in and van
ished down The Vista of In pask NJ
6ons aruse, srisnphed md died faces
WIRE born. flcurfshesd. md passed
auav, each hehoi<1ing the morning
sun bafhing the World in ps1rple and
gold. ard the evening spien1or kissing
The roses 20 xleep. yet none dreamed
that il vas the earth that moved.
uh;le the sun. the mighty sentinel Of
infiniky, moved imperc<pthly- The
fnIlaey was 1t last exploded By an In
nOvasof--an<i il came near costing him
his life because it shocked the con-
serratives-"
The traveller Who starts on his jour-
ney 4: midnight has far more to fear
during the first few kozrs he gyopes
4 his war thxn after the puypsing ezsf
keraids the approach Of day, more 70
fear During the uncertain light OF IN
folding dawn than after the golden
spaenGcr OF the sun foods his path
with radiance
Just 50. far hack in the history OF
medicine they blundered along, en-
uloying the most heroic measures. the
most deadly minerals. the most ioafh-
some connections that the brain could
conceive, and the iegacies OF heiriooms
have been xeaiotisly defendea for cen
turtles. only discarsiing them when the
innoyators compelled them by their
success TO reluctantly relinqai<h their
octopus hold.
me old schools of medicine. clad in
the ancient mantle of utter conservat-
ism. whose ample robes, have. as they
| swept down the corridors of the cen
turies. caught and held so much OF the
teachings Of Hippocrates, CELSIUS and
Gaien, ho.ry with antiquity. ever rev
erenfly worshiping the old while they
| invariably combafted innovations
and viewed with cynical skepticfsm
each new discovery. Can such body
! be REGARDED safe TO trust ones physi-
cal happiness with?
Eyervirregular move in medicine has
been protest against the barbarities
of the old irrational congiomerate. II
must he remembered that every step
taken has been bitterly contested by
thoxe in power, hat after falling 10
crush the beneficial innovation they
have been compelled to embrace it.
Come, wake up and move on said
the people to the old school, Accept
the new teaching or We win leave yoa
| to starye. and thus in spite of their
conservatism they have had TO move
on, to be sure always away behind the
times, but still they crawled snail-like
and painfully along, far in the rear
iof the started standard bear
ers of progressive thought. Slowly
and rebeliiously they had to accept the
discoveries OF those when they de-
noanced as dangerous guacts. Many
have been the rude awakenings that
this time honored old school has suf-
1 fered from progressive thought.
Bat fame IL earned, not merely by
| things written, but by ardsous great
ness of deeds accomplished. Every
assault upon the impregnable citadel
OF true science has added numberiess
recruits to its cause. The ammunition
of calumny has been exploded. The
deadly projec:iles hurled have missed
their destination. The shafts and ar
rows lie broken at the feet of victory
And when Aurora's rays shall have
| pierced the smoke Of the beautiful, the
| name of the histogenetic system Of
meeiicine will glitter bright and i'm
pe1ishable sun in the diadem of sci
ence. when those who tried to vino
their Shiny coils around its snowy
throat have mouidered in oblivion ant
their epitaphs have vanished from til,
face of the earth.