Telegram-herald., 1890-04-21

disease sntsred Tie earth ~ ezrly thai one 4
tie arst waass OF the ~orla was a doctor
Oar criYplsd aud asonissd husaan racs called
for s0rgsoa zEd family physician for many
years before they came The first surgeons
vito answered this cAl we're ministers VI 70
ligi0n, namely, The Ezyptisa PRIESTS and
what a grand thing II al elergynen were also
doctors, all ID. d = we're NJ D. :, for there
are many cases where body and sOel need
treatment a. the same time, consolation aud
medicine, tAeoiogy aud Therapeutics
As the first surgeons OF the world were also
ministers Of religion, may these two profes-
sioas always b in fun sympathy But IN
der what Disadvantages The early surgeons
worked, from toe fact that the disssctis n OF
the human body was forbidden, first BY the
pagans and thea by the early Chris ansi
Apes, being the bvutes most hike the human
race, were disected, bat no human body
might be unfolded for physiological and ana
tomical exploration, and the surgeons had 10
guess what was inside the temple by looking
at the outside Of it. II they failod In any
surgical operation they were prosecuted and
driven out ot the city, IS was Archagathus
because OF his bold but unsuccessful attempt
70 save a patient.
EARLY SURGERY
But the world from the very beginning
kept calling for surgeons, and their first skill
Is spoken Of in Genesis, where they employed
their art for the incisions OF a sacred rite, God
making surgery the predecessor Of baptism;
and we see 1t again IN ii Kings, where Aha
xlah, the monarch, stepped on some cracked
lattice work In the palace and IL broke, and
he fell from the upper 70 the lower floor, and
be was 50 hurt that he sent TO the village Of
Ekron for aid; aud Esculapius, who wrought
such wonders Of surgery that ne was deifled,
and temples were built for his worship at
PergamOs; and Epidaurus and Podelirius in
troduced for the relief OF the world phlebot-
Omy; and DamOcedes cured the dislOcated
ankle OF King Darius and the cancer of his
queen; and HippOcrates put successful hand
on fractures and introduced amputation; and
EfaKagoras removed distractions; and He
rOphilus begsn dissection; and EraSistratus
removed tumors; aud CELSIUS, the Roman sur
geon, removed cataract from the eye and
used the Spanish fly; and HehOdorus arrest
Ell disease OF the throat; and Alexander, Of
1rasles, treated the eye; and Rhazas cauter-
lEed for the prevention Of hydroph0bia, and
Iercival Pott came 10 combat diseases Of the
spine; and in our own century we have bad
a kouX and a LarTaT ia France, an Ashley
Cooper and an Abernethy in Great Britain,
and a Valentine Mott and Willard Parker
and Samuel ID. Gross Ia America, and q gal
axy OF living surgeons a. brilliant as their
predecessors. What mighty progress IN the
battling OF disease since the crippled and sick
OF ancient cities were laid along the streets,
that people who had ever been hurt or disor-
dered in the same way might suggest what
had better be done for the patients; and the
priests of olden time VINO were constantly
suffering from colds received in walking bare
foot over the temple psvements, had TO pre-
scribe for themselves, and fractures were
considered 50 far beyond all human cure that
instead of calling ia the surgeons the people
only invoked the godsI
SURGERY WANTED WITHOUT PAIN.
But notwithstanding al the surgical and
medical skill OF the world, with what te-
nacity the old diseases hang on 10 the human
race, and most OF them are thousands OF
years old, and in our Bibles We read Of them:
the carbuncles Of Job and Hezekihh the pal
pitation Of the heart spoken Of in Deuteron-
omy: the su1stroEe Ok a child carried from
the felJS Of Shunem, crying, my head my
head! - King Asa's disease OF tie feet, which
was nothing but gout, detection Of teeth,
that called for dental surgery, the skill Of
which, quite equal to anything modern, is
still seen in the filed molars Of the unrolled
Egyptian mummies, the ophthalmia caused
by the juice Of the newly ripe fig, leaving the
people blind at the roadside epilepsy. rs ia
the case Of tho young man often falling into
the FIRE, and oft into the water; hypOchOn-
dria, as Of Nebuchadneuar, who imagined
himself an OK, and going out 10 the fields 70
pasture; ths witsered hand, which IN Bble
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 LETT for dead on the road u
Jericho, and whom the good Samaritan
nuTsed, pouring IN osl and wine-wine 20
cleanse tbe wound and oil 70 soOthe IT, Thank
God for what surgery has dons for the ale
Walton and cure ~ human suffering
But ths world wanted = surgery withos
pain. Drs Parrs and Hickman and Simp-
son and Warner aud Jackson, with their
amazing genius, came on. and with their
snEsthetics bsnumbed the patient with mar
coticz and ethers as the ancients did With
hAshessh and mandrake and quieted him for
a while. but a. the return Of consciousness
distress returned The world has never zen
but oas surgeon who could straizhteu the
crooked limb. curs the blind eve OF recon
ssr-Ict the drum Of a soundless eaT OF reduce
a 3ropsy. without any pain a. toe time. or
any pain after aRd that surgeon was Jesus
Christ the migstiest. Erandsst. gontleSt and
most sympathetic surgeon the world ever - y
OF ever VII 80. and be deserves the conf
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