The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1890-02-27


interest to humanity. Here every
day in the week multitudes of the
poor, the blind, the lame and the halt,
are treated without money and with
out price; are treated with a medical
skill that the go,d of kings could not
have commanded a century ago. The
whole tendency of the age is to the
subdivision of knowledge, and this is
fully realized by the Faculty Of the
Post Graduate School. 1t seems to
have impressed itself upon them, that
man as whole, was subject too stu
pendous to be considered by single
mind; hence they have made single
forms of disease the study of life.
One devotes himself to diseases of the
eye and ear, and finds the field before
hlm ample for llfe's vestlgation,
another takes study of the brain;
still another the heart and lungs; some,
disease of tho nerves. and so on, to
every subdivision Of this mortal frame.
Surgical operations are performed here
every day in the year, from which
even the ablest surgeons of half
century ago, would have shrunk APP
palled, aud thousands of cases are
successfully treated, that less than
quarter of century ago, were con-
sldered physical inipossibilities.
Twenty-Five thousand cases covering
almost every i'll that humanity is heir
to have passed under their treatment,
or at least have been subject to their
visitation aud study.
In New York and Brooklyn are over
two millions of people, and in the
towns and cities which Immediately
surround them fully million more.
In this vast field is to be found every
known form OF human disease, every
possible contingency of accident,
every probability Of human suffering
that has occurred or can occur upon
the earth. But we are not dependent
ON our local population alone; New
York is getting 70 be the most cosiu, :
politan city in the world, but our cos
nopolitatIism Is frequently purchased
at heavy cost in the importation of
fatal ani contagious diseases, firm
which our country has heret fore been
exempt. And right here comes in the
mission of tie Post Graduate Medical
School. Every man of its faculty and
graduates stands sentinel at our city
gates watching the approach OF foes
from without or enemies from within;
~ danger of death appals them, and
each one would think his life richly
paid for if, by its sacrifice, he could
discover a remedy for some fatal dis
ease which has heretofore eludcd the
ingenuity of man.
In the space allotted to these letters
it is impossible to give even brief
synopsis of the different departments
for the alienation of human suffering;
but man must have heart Of stone
who could go through the babies aud
children's wards and not feel his pulse
quicken and his eyes grow moist as he
passes among the beds of these little
suffering waits. lowering around
them like augels of mercy are the
trained nurses, sweet faced, gentle
hammered women, most of whom have
never known the joys and sorrows of
maternity. But no mother, claspinp
to her breast for the first time her frst
born, ever treated it more tenderly
and lovingly than these sweet nurses
do these heirs of infant suffering.
One Of the brightest and happiest
features of this institution is the
trained nurses. The old.time doctors
aversion to women in the sick room
exists no longer. She is his skillful
assistant and Intelligent aid, In every
portion # his labor carrying out his
orders with the utmost fidelity and
truthfulness. Nothing seems to dis.
turb them; they seem to carry a
blessed serenity and peace in the at
m sphere around them. Yet in the
most trying operations, where men
often falter and weaken, they attend
the surgeons directions with com.
maud of nerve like that which held
the Christian martyr uIhinching at
the stake.
Marvellous, indeed, are the cures of
malformation among children, which
are successfully treated there. No
matter how deformed the limbs or
b-dy. if the children are only brought