The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-03-01

the door; no room for levlty or light jest
ing here; for the subjects constantly under |
consideration are life and death, the grayest |
and most important to men. The Post
Graduate School has an American side,
that touches natural pride. The work
Of its Faculty has made IL no longer
necessary for the American student who
needs semitic instruction in the higher
branches Of his profession, to 90 to Paris,
Vienna, London or Berlin. Attached TO
this school is corps of daring investiga-
tors who shrink from no problem, however
abstruse or dangerous; surgeons who per
petuate tine fame of Valentine Mott, James
Wood and DR.. Carnochan, chemists worthy
to stand beside Michael Faraday or Geo,
Lussac, pathologists who are Sitting the
chaff from the wheat in the startling
philosophy of Pasteur, and who have
thousands of preparations of bacteria which
are supposed to lie at the foundation of
every mortal disease.
But while the primary work of the Post
Graduate School is the higher education of
the Physician, the secondary feature is of
the most absorbing interest to humanity.
Here every day In the week multtudes of
the poor, the blind, the lame and the halt,
are treated without money and without
the gold of kings could not have com
manded a century ago. The whole tendency
Of the age is to the subdivision of know
ledge, and this is fully realized by the
Faculty of the Post Graduate School. 1t
seems to have impressed itself upon them,
that man as a whole, was a subject too
stupendous to be considered by a 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 him ample for life's
investigation; another takes study of she
brain; still another the heart and lungs
some, disease of the 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 haye shrunk appalled,, and thousands
of cases are successfully treated, that less
than a quarter of a century ago, were con-
sidered physical impossibilities.
twenty-five thousand cases covering al
most every i'll that humanity is heir to have
passed under their treatment, or at least
have been subject to their visitation and
study.
In New York and Brooklyn are oyer 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. Butw are not dependent
on our local populations alone; New York
is getting TO be the most cosmopolitan city
in the world, but our cosmopolitanism is
frequently purchased at heoYy cost in the
importation of fatal and contagious dis.
eases, from which our country heretofore
been exempt. And right here comes in the
mission of the Post Graduate Medca
School. Every man of its faculty and
graduates stands sentinel at our city gates
watching the approach of foes from with
out or enemies from within; no danger Of
death appals them, and each one would
think his life richly paid for if, by it'
sacrifice. he could discover remedy fol
some fatal disease which has heretofore
eluded the ingenuity of man.
In the space allotted to these letters It i,
impossible to give even a brief synopsis o.
the different departments for the alleYia.
ton of human suffering; but man must
have heart of stone who could &C
through the babies and 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. HoYerine
around them like angels OF mercy are the
trained nurses, sweet-faced gentle manner
ed women, most of whom have nevel
known the joys and sorrows of maternity
But no mother, clasping TO her breast fol
the first time her first born, eyer treated il
more tenderly and lovingly than these
sweet nurses do these heirs of infant suffer
ing.
One Of the brightest and happiesl
features of this institution is the school OF
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 of his
labor carrying out his orders with the ut
most fidelity and trustfuness. Nothing
seems to disturb them; they seem to carry
a blessed serenity and peace in the atmos
phere around them. Yet in the most uy
ing operations, where men often falter and
weaken, they attend the surgeons direct
ions with command of nerve like that
which held the Christian martyr unfinch.
ing at the stake.
Marvellous, indeed, are the cures Of
malformation among children, which ar,
successfully treated here. No matter how
deformed the limbs or body, if the children
are only brought in time DR.. Philips will
undertake their cure; and while he ma,
not be absolutely able to give them new
limbs or a new body, he will put the old il
such a good state of repair that they shal
be almost equal TO new.
Another wonderful department is that
devoted to curvatures of the spine. Her,
frame work of light material is put com
I pletely around the body of the patient, and
then by an ingenious mechanical appli
ance, the spinal column is Strengthened
and strengthened till the curvature is re.
duced and an entire cure is effected. But
why go on? no part of the human organism
is neglected. Every department has O
skilled specialist for the treatment of the
eye, the ear, the nose, the throat, the
lungs, the heart, the nerves, and he
amount OF chaTitable work done by these
post graduates and professors is almost be.
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