Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-04-25
SURGERY WITHOUTPAIN
AN ELOQUENT SERMON PREACHED
BY REV. r. DE WITT TALMAGE.
"The Blind Receive THOR Sight and tho
Lame Walk, the Lcpcrs are Cicansed
and the Deaf Hear, =" the Text of tho
Doctors Remarks April 90.


The burning Of Ike Tabernacle drove his con-
gregation to the shelter OF the Academy Of
Music have boo1 something phenomenal
This evening the spacious building was filed
in every part. The popular preacher dis
COursed ON the profession of hcaliug. lis
text WINS Matthew xi, D; The blind receive
their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are
Cleansad, and the dear hsnl. lie said
Doctor" | SAID 10 distinguished surgeon,
'do you not get worn out with constantly
seeing so many wounds and broken bones and
distortions OF the human body" "Oh, no.
he answered; all that is overcome by my
Joy IN curing thom.' A sllhlmer or more
nerciful art never c&rue down from heaven
than the art of surgery. Catastrophe and
disease entered the earth 50 early that one of
the first wants OF the world was doctor
Our crippled and agouizc! human race called
for surgeon and family physician Tor many
years before they came. The first surgeons
who answered this call were ministers Of re
hgiou. namely, the Egyptian priests. And
what a srand thing Ii all clcreTincn We're also
doctors, all -. y. 5 were VI. j. S, for there
are a. many cases wnerc BODY and soul need
treatment at the same time, con-piaJ!on and
medicine, theology and thera1eItlo-.
~ The frs, surgeons Of jac world wore also
Ininis-ers Of religion rlay thes' two profess
sicnA al"hya % III LIN - iulH'HS hu. U.'
osr what dfAd' 'laoaseS IN" carly surgeon
y3orA"f' iro.A tho fac' ina. 'aIe dissection O.,
the altman DooF was Ioro'tirL' ur't 10y the
paGA1s anu lheh ny Ih' @|Ig ChtlAllhHS!
Apes, being the brutes most Ike the human
race, were dssectcG hut no human BODY
WiSh, he UNI oldec lol PHYSICS 'SlcA ana ana
1onicai exploration, 3hI tne surgeons had 40
guess What WAS llslut the leIIilHe 10y l"ohIh-
at the outside OF IT, u thcJ IaiIed III any
surgical operation they were prosecuted ana
driven out OF the city as was ArcnagathuS
lecause OF his bold but alnahcceSsIul attempt
to save a patent.
EARLY SURGERY.
But enc world from inc very beglnhlng
kept calling OF surgeons ana luef nr't skill
!, spoken of ln NenesIS, "here they employed
Their ar ID! i|' llci>'ohS Oh d 'sc' r'ie, l'od
luaNllE surgery the precursor OF uaptlsm'
ana we see IL again III ii \4hS'' "ueTe Ana.
ZaA, the monarch S'epiH" On some cracked
lattice Work IN inc pai'Nt ana IL broke ana
lie iel from TIE upper 10 the lower hopr' ana
be was so hurt that h" sent to the village OF
Enron for aid; and feeJuapuN, who wrought
such wonders OF surgery LhaL he was deiiled'
and temples were built Tor lbs worship at
Iergamos; ANA EpNauru@ and Podellrius IN
PRODUCED Tor the reLle' OF lho world phlepot-
olIll anu ''''4Al'-Nl9 wi 90 '4o ''''''NH''''
ankle OF hlnE Darius anG the cancer OF ms
queen; and lhppocraies put successful hand
ON fractures and introduced anputation; and
IraAa@oraS removed oo%rucuons; ana lie
Topnnu' began GlSsectloh; ana LraSlstratus
removed tdmorS; ana CELSIUS, the t0lnan sur
Geon, removed cataract from the eye and
used the spanish Ay; ana HelodoIuS arrest
eI disease OF the throat; ard Alexander OF
Ira4e'' treated the eye; anu IVhazaS cauter-
lzed f'r the prevention OF hydrophoola, and
renewal lott came TO combat diseases OF the
Spha; anu IN our own century we nave had
lsoUN ana Lorf"y III france an Ashley
Cooper ana an AnerheOhy III NIeal britain
anu d NaIyHiHne 1lo', "ud " i'laId l arhti
ana samuel D. HfosS IN America ana a gal
a&y OF HVih5 surgeons as pilLian' as their
predecessors. " nat hl~Hy progress IN the
banning ol disease sih'e 'he crippled ana SICK
o4 ancient c'ues were la't along Ihe streets,
iaal people WHO hau ever peeh hurt on dlsor-
oered III the same way might suggest what
haH better be done Ior inc paueht'' ana the
priests oil "'aeh tlihe' VINO were constantly
sun erlNg from cOldS received III NuihluB Dare