The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-30
DOCTORS AND STORS.
PARALLELS BETWEEN TWO VERY-lM'
PCRTANT CAULlNGS

PARALLELS BETWEEN TWO VERY.liA.
PCRTANT CALLlNGS
DR.. GslunSc Thinks It Would Re VOL II ali
| Ministers Were Doctors and all Doctors
| More ministers.
DE-. Talmage took foz the tex. Of
a;s Sunday serucn: Matthew II, Tho
blind receive t:2eir sight, and the lame
walk, the lepers szs cleanssd, and the
daaf hear" He said:
'.Dnctc-," I said to distinguished
| surgeon ''do you nos get worn out
With constantly seeing SO many
wounds and byoken bones snd dis
locations OF the haman body?" "Oh
nc" BE answered, 'sall that is over
come oy M Joy in curing them" i
soolG;ner or more me:cifI art never
| cam ,iowc iro,n heayeh than the al:s
| o. surgery. Catastrophe and disease
| eltte@.eI the earth so early that one OF
! tbs s,ett wants OF the world wass doc
| toi. GGr crippled AID agonizei au-
lnan race called for . surgeon anl
! family r;l,,,iciia8 ffor man: years before
they came. The fr5t surgeons who
answered this call were ministers OF
religion, namely, The Egyptian priests.
| ind what p grand thing i all clergy
men were also doctors, all D. DIS
were Il. D. 5. for there ara many cases
where body ;tnl soul need treatment
st tie same tine, consolation anI
medicine, theology and therapeutics.
As The first surgeons OF the worldwere
also ministers Of religion, may these
t5so professions always be n fGu
sympathy: But under what disadyan-
tages The early surgeons worked, from
the fact tlllat the dissection OF the Lu-
man body was forbidden. first by the
pagans and thsn By The early Chris
jiiiaas. Apes. being the brutes most
Ike tie human race, were dissecta6.
but no human bcdy ligLt be unfold,
ed io1 physiological and anatomical
exnlorat;oI, and he surgeons had TO
guess what vas inside the temple by
looking at the outside Of it. Il they
failed IN any surgical operation they
were prosecuted and driven out OF the
city, as VAS 1ircAagathus because Of
his bold but unsuccessful attempt to
save patient.
But the world from The very begin
ing kept calling for surgeons, and their
first Skill is spoken Of in Genesis,
where tnaY employed their art for Tie
i0cisions OF i sacredTite, Geo making
surgery the predecessor Of baptism;
snd we see i sgair IL Il hinss, wheIe
Ahazish, the monarch, stepped on
some cracked lattice work in the
the palace, and il broke, and he fell
from the upper 1oor TO the lower
ioor, and he was so hurt tnat be sent
10 ire village OF Ekron for aid; and
Esculspius, who wrought such Won
tlcrs OF surgery that he was deifed,
and temples were built for his wor
ship ai Pcrganlos; and Epia&Guus snd
podei1ius introduced for tie relief
Of the world phlaboto,ry; and Dano-
eeGss aureti tie dslocated ankle Of
King Darius. and The cancer Of his
queen: and hippoc. ate5 PIT Success
iul hand On fractures, and introduced
amputation; and Pra1asoras removed
distractions; and Heropbilus began
dissection; and Erasistratus removed
tumors; and CELSIUS. the Roman sur
econ. removed cataract from the eye,
and used the Spanish IL: and Hello
dcrus arrested disease Of throat; and
alexander, Of Tralles, treated the eye:
and RLazss cauterized. for the pre-
yention O. hydrophobia; and Perclval
Pott came to combat disease OF the
spine; and in our own century we haTc
had Roux and a LWrey III France,
and As ley Cooper and an Abernethy
IN Great Britain. and Valentine
,.Iott snd Willard Parker and Samuel
D. Gross IN Amorics, ard galaxy OF
living surgeons as brilliant as their
predecessors.
But Notwithstanding al tho aurgi-
cal and medical skill Of the world
With what tensc;ty the old diseases
hang on the human race, and Inos5 Of
thsm are thousands Ct years old, and
in or Bibles We read Of item; the
carbuncles Of Job and Hezehah; The
palpitation Of the heart spoken OF in
Deuteronomy; The srr-stroke Of q
child carried IRON the fields Of Shu-
mem, crying, MY head: my head"
King Asa's disease OF The feet, which
was nothing but sout: detection OF
teeth. that called for dental surgery,
the skill OF which, quite equal to any
thing modern, is still seen IL tie filed
molars Of the unroiied Egyptian
mumn1ies; the opnthaln2ia caused by
the Juice of the newly ripe fg, laa7-
ing the people blink aU the roadside;
epilepsy. as in the case Of the young
man often falling into tie tirs sad
often into the water; hypochondlis,
as Of NebuchadnezZar, who Imagined
himself an OK, and going out to the
fields to pasture; tie wlthared bend,
which N Bible times as now. cale
from the destruction OF BE r1au?
artery. Or from paralysis OF the c.liei
nerve; the wounds Of the man ".aom
TIE thieves left for dead on tho ROAD
t.. Joricho, and whom the good Sauna
ritan nmsed, pouring IN oil aud vine
wine TO cleanse the wound, and oI
TO soothe it. Thank God for what
surgery has done for the alevistion
and cure CT human suffering.
But the world wanted q surgery
without pain. Doctors Pare and
Hickman and Simpson and Warner
and Jackson, with theI amazing
genius. came Oh, and With thcsc a1lfes-
I.thesics benumbed the patient With
narcotics sad ethcrs rs the ancients
did with hasneesh and mandrake. &Dd
qrietcd him for awhile, bat at tho Ie-
+11,-y Of consciousness distress return