The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-10
THE BLESSED DOCTORS.
IN A Streaming HOT SESSION THEY
ABLY DISCUSS CERTAIN
QUESTIONS.
Electricity Fully Analysed and Some Re-
markable Cases Cited by Truth
full SawbOnes.

| last night in search of items was at
tracted by sounds to Medical hall. He
entered and found the doctors alter
mating between spells of copious per-
spiration and rapturous applause as
the venerable DR.. Church read in a
musical voice and clean shirt an able
and carefully prepared paper on cleo
tricity.,
DR.. Church, after recounting the
great advances made in electro medical
treatment, and dilating in learned
way on electricity in structure, related
how he had passed red hot electrode
through mabid grinite Of the nature
of wen or tumor, and had caused its
/ entire absorption or removal. APP
plause.
DR.. Bennett endorsed Dr. Church
in most that he said, and plead guilty
to decided Partially to electric treat
ment in appropriate cases. II had
patient" he said, "who was, in other
respects, a good looking man, but he
had warty grinite on the end of
his nose the size and shape OF
button. 1t was not painful
in itself, but it was painfully con.
| spicuous. The man thought about it
and thought about it until he became
/ monomaniac on the subject; but
worse than all, he looked at it with
both eyes so constantly that it made
, him cross eyed"
Here the doctor was going on 20 tell
/ how he electrotized it, when he heard
a dismal groan of anguish, and turn
ing, he discovered DR.. Tyner, who
makes specially of eyes.
DR.. Tyner, in husky voice, wanted
to know of DR.. Bennett if he was not
a little hasty in jumping at the dag
nosis of cross eyes, and stated that
according to the best authority,
strabismus, Or whatever they call it,
from concentrated gaze at a wart on
the end of a nose, had only occurred
once in 10000 years, and it would not
have occurred then had the patient
died before reaching maturity. APP
! plause.
DR.. Bennett continuing said: 81 re-
moved the button by three applica-
lions and here it is" And he passed
around horny growth, the appear
ance of which suggested that the doc
tor was familiar with the legs of a
horse.
DR.. Mclaughlin being called in said
that he had very high opinion of
electricity-in it's place. He bad never
been forcihly struck with it; but had
used it in cases of opium poisoning
with success. In cases of suspended
respiration from what ever cause-it
would give satisfactory results. He
had used electricity in many cases of
suspended respiration; but had not
tried it in a case where the man and
the respiration were both suspended.
DR.. Smith begged to remind DR..
Mclaughlin that he had case where
a man in California had been hanged
for horse stealing, a case of suspended
respiration and suspended man, when
cut down he had observed slight signs
of animation in the man by placing a
mirror over his mouth. Thus en-
couraged he had fastened to get lis
battery with his own improved cleo
trode and applying the positive end at
the thorax and the negative end to a
piece OF the rope, in few minutes the
stolen horses were recovered, stimuli
taneously with the mans respiration.
In TACT, it was complete recovery of
everything except his fee. He failed
to recover that. DR.. Smith, while
giving the electric current due credit
in this case, thought the climate OF
California might have had some
thing to do with it, though
his observation had convinced
him it was not healthy climate for
horse thieves. DIR. Smith also stated
it as '.que"-rious fact that electricity
will not act on Chinaman, probably
on account of the queue"
DR.. Taylor had also seen case
where it had failed to act on a negro.
DR.. Daniel, who had for the first time
crawled out to the meeting, had had
no experience either with the negro
or the Chinaman as to electric treat
ment. but he once saw a so-called
doctor" apply the electrodes of a
thirty,cell battery, one to the neck
and one to the temple, of a
man in opium poisoning and it
killed him instantly. He thought
one should be very careful in
applying the current to the head,
there was no doubt that current
properly directed through the nerves
which govern respiration had aided
him materially in several cases of
narcosis from opium or morphine.
He thought strong current of
electricity applied to bill collectors
would be a good thing, and all the
doctors concurred and applauded
vociferously.
Drs. Wooten, Litten, Morris, Le-
wright, Cummings and all present
participated in the discussion at
learned length, and all went home
feeling electrified and happy.
Trouble in LOuisiona.