The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-12-17
MI IackAnuia Illness.

The following from the Kansas CITY
Times relating to the illness of DIR. j.
w. Jackson, who was formerly a well
known and popular Sedslian, will be
read with interest here:
Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 9.-Noth-
ing elicits more interest in commun-
ity than the severe sickness of prom.
inent and popular physician and sur
geon. The recent illness of DR.. j.
w. Jackson In this city demonstrates
that fact. In performing charitable
surgical operation on poor woman
few weeks ago his system became in
oculated with blood poison from a
small abrasion of the skin of his
thumb, which caused his friends and
family great uneasiness. DR.. jackson
is one of the most cheering and cheer.
full men in the sick room / have seen
"a double concentrated ray of sun
shine to the patient, almost banishing
the idea of death from the sufferer
and the family, creating hope, cour-
age and confidence by the very way be
acts. A servant has been kept con-
stantly engaged at the door of his res
idence, answering the questions of the
inquiries and receiving baskets of
flowers from his numerous female
patients the young as we'll as the
old, the poor as well as the rich.
His room is as redolent of sweetness
as botanical garden. Sickness un'
der such circumstances is blessing,
as it makes Us see the better side of
life-that the good physician is ever
looked upon as the trne Samaritan of
life, aud this should teach him that
there is much good in humanity, be-
yond its bones to be sawed and Its
flesh to be cut. Physicians of all
schools have proven to be his friends.
At the crisis of his disease DIR. +. III.
Gregory of St. Louis, the recognized
surgery in the state, made special
trip to Kansas City to see him. DIR.
Jackson's career as physician and
surgeon has been so manly and hon.
orable that his success has excited no
jea!ousies. His convalescence will be
pleasant news to all. One of the
most beautiful articles ever published
was written by George ID. Prentice as
an editorial in the old Louisville
Journal November 8, 1866, after re.
covering from a prolonged illness.
1t is a gem of pathos. and is so ap-
plicable to this case that ask for its
reproduction:
''Our heart felt thanks are due to
very many of our brethren tor their
very kind notices of US during our
late illness. Their sympathy soothed
and cheered and strengthened us. 1t
seemed to throw a calm and lovely
light upon the world and make us
wish to linger still among our fellow
men. There is much that is beautiful
and holy and hallowed in sickness.
Its influences are purer and better
than those of health Indeed the fee
bleness of the body is often the health
of the soul. We see and hear what
we may not in the season of our physi-
cal strength. Myriad spirits of the
air fiutter over the dividing line be-
tween two worl DIS, uttering to mortal
beings the words they have learned in
heaven. As we move downward upon
the sombre and mysterious pathway
that leads to the door of the tomb, we
behold, as from the debths of shad-
owy well or cavern, the pale sereni-
ties of floating stars, all invisible in
the glare of sunshine of the upper air,
and their sacred and blessed light
need never to fade FROM the spirit"