Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-21
PAINLESS SURGERY.
o;,oonrse Of the Rev. DIR. Tai
,nooe Yesterday in Brooklyn.
Re GlowingIy Enumerates the Many
~ wonders Performed by the Divine
Healer. Jesus Christ
uosd he all the Crowns! In His Hands
,. al the seepters! At His Feetbe
all the Worlds!
THE ART OF SURGERY


srors his congregation to the shelter OF
,.ozarnv. OF Music, have been some
- ~ -hanomenaI. Tins evening the
-. -. buiIding was filled in every
The popular preacher disooursed
p .se profession of healing. His text
% ,,..,bew II. %. 1.-THE blind receive
49, s,pbt, and the lame walk, the
-. ..-a clensed, and the deaf hear. -
h5 .ST,.ctar - said to a distinguished
- ,.do YOU not get worn out with
s-rgta7tly seeing so many wounds ana
,1ai.sn homes aud distortions OF the
D.a- bodv?'' ''Oh, no; he an
-, --e7 IAN that is overcome by my
c,,rirg them - A sublmeF OF
- nerciful art never came DOWN
- heaven than the art or surgery
Co,e.troDhe and disease entered the earlu
-o-lr mat one of the first wants OF the
-.l-T5 WAS q doctor. Our crippled ana
...-rsza5 human race called for surgeon
81 Farnirv musician for many years De-
~. they came. The first surgeons
no answered this call were ministers oil
-.Iirion namely, the Egyptian priests
and Thgt q grand thing if all clergymen
-rs~e also doctors, all d. D. S were M
n = for there are so many cases where
boav and soul need treatment at the
same time, consolation ana medlclue,
theology and therapeutics. AS the nrsI
surgeons of the world were also ministers
Of religion, may these two PROFESSIONS
always be in fun sympathy! But ghueT
ygbat disadvantages the early SURGEONS
worked, from the fact that the alssec-
Hrst bv the Uagans and then by the early
Christians. Apes, being the orutes
most like the human race, were dls-
sacted but no human body might be un-
yol5ed for physiological and anatomical
avnIoration, and the surgeons had TO
mess what was inside the temple by
l,ol,inr at tho outside OF IL. II they
failed in any surgiC al operation they
were Dersecuted and driven out OF the
city as was ATchagathus because Of his
hold hut unsuccessful attempt 10 save d
patient.
But the world from the very beginning
kent calling for surgeons, and their first
skin is spokeu Of in Genesis, where they
emploved their art for the missions of g
sacred rite, God making surgery the
p4EbECEssoR OF BAPTISM,
and we see it again in II. Kings, where
Ahaziah, the monarch, stepped on somt
cracked lattice-work in the palace, ant
Il broke, and he fell from the upper t
the lower floor. and he was so hurt tina
he sent to the village Of Enron for aid
and Fsculapius, who wrought such won
ders OF surgery that he was deiied, ant
TEMPLES were built for his worship a
PerEamos: and Epidaurus and Podeliriu
introduced for the relief of the worl'
phlebotomE; and Damaoedes CURED tn
dlslOcated ANGLE of King Darius, and tn
cancer of his queen; and HippocTates pu
successful hand on fractures, and intro
duced AmUutatiou; and PraxagoPas re
moved distractions; and HeTophilus be
gan dissection; and ETasiStTatus remove
tumors: and CELSIUS, the Roman surgeon
removed cataract from the eye, and use
the Spanish fly; and HeliodOrus aTFeste
disease of the throat; and Alexander c
TTalles treated the eye; and khaza
cauterized for the prevention OF hydro
phobia; and PercIvaI Pott came to com
bat diseases of the spine; and in our ow
century we have had Roux and LAIR
in France, an Ashley Cooper an
al Abernethy IN Great Britain
and a Valentine Mott and Willar
Parker and Samuel d. Gross in America
aud a galaxy of living surgeons as bril-
Liant as their predecessors. What might
progress in the battling of disease sine
the crippled and sick of ancient cite
we're laid along the streets, that poop
who had ever been hurt or disordered
the same way might suggest what ha
better be done for the patients; and ii
priest OF Olken time, who were constant
lv rYFT DE- fTOl
walking barefoot over the temple pave
ments, had to prescribe for Themselves
and fractures were considered so far bt
youd all human cure that instead of cal
ing in the surgeons the people only il
Foked the g0dsl
But Notwithstanding the surgical al
medical skill of the world, with w
tenacity the old diseases hang on to. Il
human race, and most of them are tho
sands of years old, and in our Bibles '
read Of them: The cRrbuneles Of Job al
Hezekiah; the palpitation of the hes
spoken of in Deuteronomy; the sunstrol
OF child carried from the fields
Shenem, crying, MY head, my head!
King Asa's disease of the feet, viii
was nothing but govt; detection of tee
that called for dental surgery, the SIX
OF which, quite equal TO anything mo
ERE, Is still seen in the filled molars
The unrolled Egyptian mummie
the ophthalmia caused by t
Juice of the newlv-ripe fig, lea
ing the people blind at the roadside; el
lepsy, as in the case of the young man
falling INTO the fire, and oft into the "
- Ter; hyDochondria, as of Nebuchadne
yer, who imagined himself an OK, a
gong out to the fields to pasture; t
Flthered hand, which ia Bible times,
now, came from the destruction of
main artery, or from paralysis of
chef nerve; the wounds of the m
whom the thieves left for dead on
road 10 jericho, and whom the
GOOD SAMARITAN NURsED,
pouring IN OIL and wIne-the wine
cleanse the wound, the oil to soothe
Thank God for what surgery has done
the alienation and cure of human s.
ferng!
But the world wanted a surgery wit
out pain. DFs. PARE and Hickman 9
simpson and Warner and jackson, "
their amazing genius, came on,
with their an9sthetics benumbed the !
uents with narcotics and others as
sncients did with hasheesh and mi
drake 4aI q Nrhila