Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-29

that before the war ended some O
the best military surgeons in th,
world could be found in the Confed
crate army. His scanty supply o
medicines and hospital stores mud,
him fertile i'll eXpcdlcnts OF every
kind. have seen him search field
and forest for plants and flowers
whose medicinal virtues he under
stood and could use. The plant
bark Of IL tree made for him n good
tourniquct; the Juice of the green
pcrsimmon, Il styptic; IL knitting nee
die, with its point sharply bent, a
teaaculnm, and 1t pcn-kniie ia his
hand, IL scalpel and bistury. | have
seen him break oil one prong of II
common table fork, bend the point
OF the other prong. and with it Gle.
yalc the bone III depressed fracture
Of the skull and save life. Long be.
( fore he knew the use of the porcelain
tipped probe for finding bullets. ]
have seen him use piece of soft
pine wood and bring it out of the
wound marked by the leadcn ball.
Years before we were formally told
of Nelaiion'S method of invcrting the
body i'll c.lloro!orm nacosis, | have
seen it practicel 10y Confederate sur
gcons. Many IL time have seen the
foot of the operating table raised to
let the blood go, by grayitaiion, to
the PATIENTS head when death from
cliloroiprin was imminent, and | will
add t! at the corps to which l was
attached, chloroiorm was given over
5000 tunes and no death was ever
nscribod to its use. Many of the
medical officers of tins corps were
wounded or killed on The field. One.
| saw fall ut S;rasbnrg. amid the
cheers of the soldiers ut the evidence
no give of devotion TO dury. An
other, ut S'arrsbur2, facing IN rs
snult before which even veterans
qnailcd and fled, and IL third, found
upon Tic blood. h4ld of Cold IIar
Dor. diving with II shell wound
through his side AS | kncll down
beside him and told him his wound
was mortal, he answered, Il am 10
moro afraid to die than | WA, afraid
{" do my duty They were splendid
specimens of noble race--a race
whose achievements astonishcl the
world and wrung from The foe full
measure OF praise. During the ter
:iblc six days which followed the re
treat Of our army from Richmond,
the medical men, by their umswerv.
ing devotion to duty and cheerful
support: contributed no little to in
spire the heroism which turned our
defeat into honor, and made Apo
mnltox one of the proudest memo
rics OF the war.
Reorganization must be or watch
word. In a country where all is pro
gross, where material resources is
beng rapidly developed, the medical
men of this section must not prove
lnSgards.
agriculture is in state of pro
Srcssive advancement. Our mineral
wealth Is at last appreciated and
turned to valuable account; the hum
oil the loom, the ring of the anvil
and the sound OF the forge resound
throughout the land. Oar waste
places are no longer dcsolnte: the in
creased growth OF agricultural pro.
ducts Is amazing. The cotton crop
OF 1855 is more than double the crop
OF lS60-ihe time ut which il was be.
lieved the south had reached the
hey day OF prosperity.
Last year (lSS3) the value of The
crops i'll the south was the largest on
record, and yet this year QSS9) the
value of her agricultural products
alone, it is estimated, will be increas.
ell Sl25,0J0,000. Statistics show her
rapid growth in other industries TO
be fully rs great, if not erontcr. And
this Is the Legitimate outcome OF the
courage, sagacity and industry of her
own people-n people born and rear.
ed under the southern sun. For
there is no new south; the blood of
her patriots OF the past flow in the
veins of her people today unmixed by
any other strain Blessed with an