The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-07-04

Centuries were ushered IN and van
isheG down the vista Of the past Ma
tsons arose, friamphesi and died, races
we're horn, Eourished, and passed
away, each kehoiding the morning
sun bathing the world Ia purple and
gold, and the evening spiendor kissing
the roses To sleep. yet none dreamed
that IL was the earth that moved,
while the sun, the mighty sentinel OF
infinisy, moved impercepsibiy. The
fallacy was At last exploded by an In
noyator-arsd il came near costing hirz
bis life because il shocked the con-
servasives."
The traveller who starts on his Jour
ney at midnight has far more 70 fear
daring the first few hours he gropes
his way than after the purpiing east
heralds the approach OF day, more to
fear during the uncertain hight Of I'M
folding dawn than after the golden
spleneoy Of the sun foods his path
with radiance
Just so, far back In the history Of
medicine they Numbered along. en-
ploying the most heroic measures. the
most deadly minerals, the most loath-
some connections that the brain could
conceive. and the legaeies or heiriooms
have been zeaiously defended for cen
turies. only diseariins ahem when the
innovators compelled them by their
success 70 reluctantly reiinquish their
octopus hold.
The old schools OF medicine, clad in
the ancient mantle of utter conseryaf-
ism, whose ample robes, have, as they
swept down the corridors of the cen
turies, caught and held so much of the
teachings OF Hippocraies, CELSIUS and
Galen, hoary with antiquity, ever rev.
erently worsbiping the old while they
invariably combatfed innovations
and viewed with cynical skepticism
each new discovery. Can such body
be regarded safe 10 trust ones physi-
cal happiness WITH
Every irregular move in medicine has
been a protest against the barbarities
of the sid irrational eoGgiomerate. 1t
must be remembered that every step
taken has been bitterly contested by
those in power. but after failing to
crush the beneficial innovation they
have been compelled to embrace 1t.
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 to move
on, TO be sure always away behind the
times, but still they crawled snaiElike
and painfully along, far in the rear
OF the started standard bear
ers OF progressive thought. Slowly
and rcbelhously they had 10 accept the
discoveries of those whom they de-
nounced as dangerous quacks. Many
have been the rude awakenings that
this time honored old school has sui
fcred from progressive thought.
But fame is earned, not merely by
things written, bat 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 Projcctiles 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
medicine will glitter bright and i'm
pcrishable sun in the diadem of sci
ence. when those who tried to wind
their Shiny coils around its snowy
throat have mouldered in oblivion and
their epitaphs have vanished from the
face OF the earth.