The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-10

justify some such hyperbole. have lived TO Sc
the medical art or science Thirty years ago. when
first entered q priptingoffce $50 impressions an
hour on one side was fairly rapid work. Many .
wrsnched out, in the effort to compass that TOKEN
of labor. Now the steam-press throws OF
90, 900 perfected sheets every sixty minutes.
editing and reading, and the editors and readers,
perhaps are looking forward to the day when the
weary BRAIN and the still wearisr heart may be rested
But venture to think that these colossal strides Of
the press. than may be easily named. marking
the advance between the Then and the Now, equally
mark the advance of the world along eli paths
has been tho handmade Of all these bene6csnt factors
of civilization, and of none more gladly and
honored. rsvered with his mysterious saddle bags
and his wise words of learned length
and thunderous sound feared than loved by his
p.ents is not going he has gone and IN h; place
more healing in the wings. with which bet
ter educational facilities and newer methods
have d sSm .sa ssss rhoIy ,ss,
treat and they have lost degree of that awfulness
with which thew used to be enveoped. This famil-
iarity for which, doubtless, the press largely re-
sponsible has not bred contempt. On the contrary.
1t Is familiarity that by widening acquaintance and
stimulating sympathy has deepened respect and given
added honor to him who honorsbly wears the title
doctor"
What is not the Doctor and what has not
the doctor DONE in this age Of growth and expansonl
How much do we owe the doctor and the pressi be-
of the latter the boundaries of the sckroom
the confines of civilization. Because or the press
the doctors diagnosis and pathology of . case are
known and studied By millions his remedies and
treatment subjected to general scrutiny and crti-
cism. Through the press We have that touch OF ma
turs which makes the whole world kin. How much
we are indebted to the doctor and his skfu science
may NOT easily be told. Hand In hand the doctor
and the newspaper stood by the bedside OF .
stricken President. and for eighty days. .
longer and more essential proongaton of life than
was given to the King OF Israel . nation learned
charity and peace and all sections and factions united
with contrts hearts and chastened sprs around the
beath-bed 1t Elberon. The doctor aad newspaper
together during that long siege. ending in the
defeat Of him who struck his flag to other
than the last enemy. What lessons of patience,
hsrcism. patriotism, magnanimity, OF the highest
life and character from the bedside of McGregors
noble msrtyr-dying for his country no less than
had he fallen ct the head of his victorious armies be-
fore Appomattox crowned his career with imperish-
able glory. The doctor and the newspaper 10
gether again. by the bedside of another of national
heroes; aud as loca. staff bend over the suffering
sion who threads the darkness from Philadelphia to
the capital with swiftness than did
the steed black a. the sesd; OF night bear ITS r,dss
Winchester.
anoper stricken chiefan and the nations of the earth
sympathize with the great empire knitted and eolidi
fed into magnifcence by the genius of Bismarck and
the kindly sutocracy of Wilhelm. hoping for even
greater glory yet to to the land OF Charlemagne
under the liberal rule of Frederick I'LL
1 congratulate yor, gentlemen no less and no
more than congratulate myself, that We
live in age of such marvellous Advancement
and achievement, and especially in this West
world whittier the march of civilization, well
the course of empire, has taken its way. But We
just out of the clouds and darkness; have but
emerged from the midnight into the gray dawn OF .
day whose noontide splsndor prophets vision and
poets fancy may but dmly outline:
Through the shadow of the globe sweeping
into the younger day,
Better fifty years Of life than cycle OF Cathay.
DR.. VIM. G. Belneld, of Chicago, . medical
author OF note in the new department Of the germ
theory OF diseases. responded to the toast. ''The
Microbe in Medicine in . very happy manner.
concluding by reciting an original ode to the
microbe after the style of Belshazzar's feast
which was not received in time for publication.
The Symposiarch-.sTh Hoosier Doctor"
Doc hain't to blame! He's got all sorts
o. curious notions, as
The Teller says his odd-come-shorts,
Like smart men mostly hasl'
Responded to by DR.. Abraham N. Owen. NJ D.
DR.. Owen said, what has been said of the Amer
lean DOCTOR and what has been said of the Kentucky
the Corncracker doctor of the Buckeye doctor,
applies OF course the Indiana Doctor. The first
and will simply refer to the facts that DIR. Bobbs,
of this city, and Dr. Sloan of New Albany, were the
first physicians to perform two of the greatest opera
tions of modern times In surgery. / will
say that the Hoosier State is not alone
in possessing '.The husher-up." All other States
possess and have "hushersup." But will say that
"Hoosier not only implies "husher-up" but IL i'm
plies investigation or inquiry. Who's there" and
when come to look around among the group of
distinguished who have made inquiry and inves-
tigation scientific subjects wonder that are
surprised at ali because of the Improvement that