The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-07-11

luIEOQQceQ LOT
the relief OF the world phlebot-
omy; and Damocedes cured the dislocated
ankle OF KING Darius and the cancer of his
queeni and Hippocrates put successful hand
on fractures and introduced amputation: and
fraxagoras removed distractions: and He
rophiius began dissection; and Erasistratus
removed tumors; and Celsius the Roman
surgeon, removed cataract from the eve and
used the Spanish fly; and Heliodorus arrested
disease OF the throat; and Alexander. of
Irales, treated the eye; and Rhazas calIter-
lzed Tor the prevention of hydrophobia and
renewal fott came to combat diseases of the
spine; ana IN our own century we have had
a houx and Larray in France, an Ashley
cooper and an Abernethy in Great Britain
and Valentine Mott and Willard Parl-a5,
anG Samuel d. Gross in America, and a gal-
! a1y OF living surgeons as brilliant as their
/ predecessors. What mighty progress in the
banning OF disease since the crippled and
SICK OF ancient cities were laid along the
streets that people who had ever been hurt
ot uisoruered IN the same way might suggest
what mad better be done for the patients: and
the priests of olden time, who were com
stanlly suffering from colds received in
waking barefoot over the tennpIe movements
had to prescribe for themselves and frac,
lures were considered so far beyond all
human cure that instead of calling in the
surgeons the people only invoked the godsl
But Notwithstanding all the surgical and
medical skill Of the world, with what, tenacity
the Old diseases hang on to the human race,
aha most OF them are thousands of years old
and IN our Bibles we read of them: the car
ouncles OF Job and Hezekiah; the palpitatiou
OF the heart spoken of in Deuteronomy. the
sunstroke OF a child carried from the fields of
Snunem, crying: my headl nv headr5
King Asa's disease of the feet which was
noIhlng but govt, detection of teeth. that
called for dental surgery, the skill of which.
quite equal to anything modern, is still saen
In the illied moiars Of the unrolled Egyptian
mumnles; the ophthalmia caused BY the
ulee OF the newly ripe fig, leaving the people
s Silau AZ the roadside; epilepsy, as in 7
the case OF the young man often falling into.
the hre, and oft into the water; hypochon-
drla, as OF Nebuchadnezzar. who irnagiued I
niinseh an OK, and going out TO the fields to
pasture; the withered hand, which in Bible
Times, as now, came from the destruction of
me me man artery or from paralysis of the
chieI nerve; the wounds of the man whom
the thieves left for dead on the rnad 70
1erlcno, and whom the good Samaritan
nursed, pouring IN oil and wine-wine to
lease the wound and oil 70 soothe it Thank
Iod Tor what surgery has done for the ale
Walton and cure Of human sufferinel
Dus the world wanted a surgery without
pam Drs. Parre and Hickman and Simn-
On and Warner and Jackson, with their
ENG genius, came on, and with their
lcs benumbed the patient with mar
ethers as the ancients did with
- q d mandrake, and quieted him for
I 81 the return of consciousness
The world has never seen
4 ST 90 could straighten the
*G,2 N f.. . blind eye or recon-
.3.3 u =l: ess ear or reduce
T. at the time, or
* II = 'E+ Il. rgeon was Jesus
81 RI ~ Il, gentlest and