The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-05-01
DOCTORS AND PASTORS.
PARALLELS BE TWEEN TWO vERfsIM.
PORTANT CALLINCS

DIR. TaImage Thinks 1t Would Bc Well If all
Ministers Wcro Doctors and all Doctors
Wore Ministers.
DR.. Talmagc took for the text of
his Sunday sermon, Matthew II, ,5."Ihe
blind receive their sight, and the lame
walk, the lepors are cleansed. and the
deaf hear" He said:
"Doctor," said to distinguished
surgeon "do you not get worn out
with constantly seeing SO many
wounds and bvokcn bones and dis
locations of the human body" "Oh
no;' he answered, "all that is over
come by my JOY in curing them" A
Sublimcr or more merciful art novor
came down from heaven than the art
Of surgery. Catastrophe and disease
entered the earth so early that one Of
the GRst vents of the world wasa doc
tor. Our crippled and agonizcd hu-
man race called for Il surgeon and
family physician for many years before
they came. The first surgeons who
answered this call were ministers Of
religion, namely, the Egyptian priests.
And what grand thing if all clergy
mon were also doctors, all ID. ID. =,
were N. DIS, for there arc many cases
whore body and soul need treatment
at the same time, consolation and
medicine, theology and therapeutics.
AS tho first surgeons of the world woro
also ministers of religion. may these
two professions always be in full
avn,r,ofh hI-l I},1t ,,,,lD, ,,-lot Il
tngeS the early surgeons worked, from
man body was forbidden, first by the
pagans and then by tho carly Chris
tians! Apes, being the brutes most
like the human race, were dissected,
but no human body might be unfold
cd for physiological and anatomical
exploration, and the surgeons had to
guess what was inside tho temple by
looking at the outside of it. II they
failed III any surgical operation they
wcrc prosecuted and driven oRt Of the
city, IA was ArchagathIs because of
his bold but unsuccessful attempt to
snvo Il patient.
But the world from tho very begin
ing kept calling for surgeons. and their
first skill is spoken of in Gencsia.
where they employed their art for the
nclslons OF a sacrcdrite God making
surgery the predecessor of baptism;
and we see it again in | I Kings, where
AhaAlah, the monarch, stepped on
some cracked lattice work in tho
the palace, and it broke, and he fell
from tho upper floor to the lower
floor, and he was 40 hurt that he sent
to the village OF Ellron for aid; and
Esculaplus, who wrought such won.
ders of surgery that hc was deiticd,
and temples were built for his wor-
ship ut Porgamos; and Epilnllrus and
Podelirius introduced for tho relief
OF the world phlobotpmy; and Dunno
codes cured tho disla acatcd ankle of
queen; and Hippocratcs put success
1ul hand on fractures. and introduced
amputation; and Praxngoras removed
distractions; and Hcrophilus began
dlsScction: and Erasistratus removed
tumors; and CELSIUS, IL 10 Roman sur
Gcon, removed cataract from the eye,
and used the Spanish }hy; and Hello
=. ,,ssaS sla4eStcd discn fc of throat and
Nlexander, of II llesl treated tho eye;
and Rhazas cauterizc0;, ,'f>AE 1Slr. the pre-,
vention of hydrophobia: and>no noectI'l u ",
Pott came to combat disease or inc
spine; and in our own century we hassA
had Roux and Larray in France,
and AS Icy Cooper and an Abcrncthy
in Great Britain, and Valentine
Mott and Willard Parkernnd Samuel
ID. GROSS in America, and a galaxy of
living surgeons as brilliant az their
predecessors.
But Notwithstanding all the surgi-
cal and medical skill of tho world
with what tcnacity the old diseases
hang Oh the human race, and most Of
thcm arc thousands of years old, and
i'll our Bibles we read of them; the
cnrbunclcs of Job and Hczelliah; the
palpitatiOn of the heart spoken of in
Deuteronomy; the sun stroke of q
child carried from the fields of Shu-
nem, crying, "My head! my hcnd!'
King Asa's disease Of the feet, which
was nothing but gout; detection OF
toeth, that called fer dental surgery,
the skill of which, quito equal to any
thing modern, is still socn in the filed
molars of the nnrolled Egyptian
mummies; the ophthalmia caused by
the juice Of the nowly ripe fig, lcav-
ing the people blink Mt the roadside;
epilepsy, as in the case of tho young
man often falling into the fro and
often into the water; hypochondria.
as of Nebuehadnozzar, who imagined
himself an OK, and going out to tho
fields to pasture; the withored hand,
which in Bible times as now, came
from the destruction of the main
artery, or from paralysis of the chief
nerve; the wounds Of the man whom
the thieves left for dead on tho road
to Jericho, and whom the good Sama-
ritan nursed, pouring in Oil and vino
wine to cleanse the wound, and oil
to soothe it. Thank God for what
surgery has done for the alienation
and cure of humam suffering.
But the world wanted a surgery
without pain. Doctors PsrTe and
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