Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-21
Mr. BAYARD IN BALTIMORE
His Address to the Students
of the College.
BOUND ADVICE TO YOUNG M. DIS.
Getting Into the Realm of Pro-
fessional Duty.


f. held Thursday. The most interesting
X event of the day was the address of ex-
Il Secretary of State Thomas +. Bayard to
the graduating class. He was introduced
to the audience by Mayor Latrobe, and
said in part
Lord Chatham remarked, confidence Is
a plant of slow growth We have the
counsel of Burns
"'llut still keep something to yoursel,
Ye scarcely tell 10 ony.'
Yet it is certain that life of distrust is
the most wretched imaginable and that
no worse advice could be given to those
about to undertake a responsible part in
affairs than 10 encourage suspicious or
adopt that dctestable saying treat every
friend as If lie may one day be your
enemy Such counsel would convert u
man into a slave of mean suspicious,
poison society, and deprive life of its
chicfest pleasures. Better accept the coun
sci oe Mrs. Norton. and
"Give credit TO thy mortal brothers heart
Fer all tho good that in thine own hath part,
1t1 And cheerfnliy rs honest prudence may
'W Tiust to his proifered hands pt otectlvg tay.'
81 am induced as member of one of the
confidential professions to address myself
to you as physicians, the other confidential
class. propose we shall get out of the
realm of trade into the realm of profess
sional duty. Duty which is born of oppor-
tunity and can only be measured by its
opportunity to advance the profession Of
Il medicine and surgery beyond the confines
= oil mere technical pursuit. and place il in
the highest level of public usefulness and
n dignity.
"Day by day the march onward of
thought and invention hastens the assured
4 victory of mind over matter, and of the
moral sentiments over both. and the pro-
81 gress OF religion is steadily tending to an
identity with morals. Gradually men are
learning not to be afraid of the truth, take
what shape it may. new truth thrown
into the. calm, stagnant pool of accepted
beliefs alarms the quiet circle with its dis
4 turbing splash and troubles the pacidity
and easy comfort of ignorant content and
81 the calm surface Of well-settled prejudice.
Il whence the remark of an Irish judge Il
q don't like 10 hear two sides of case; il
h always confuses me-
THE LIGHT OF EXPERIENCE.
~ am conscious of my presumption in
x attempting even toillustrate the unwisdom
and evil consequences of opposing the
entrance of new light in the practice of
medicine and surgery, yet the lessons of
experience are so valuable and so plainly
taught by the complete revolution and
Nnweeping changes which have taken place
q in the last half century in medicine and
! surgery that cannot avoid short refer
ence to some Of them. They go to show
that breadth, not narrowness, is needed.
In his lecture OH the Border Lines of
MtulCll Ccltilct utllNeTcu 81 years ago DIV
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, we find him
rejoicing over our improved hygiene and
Z slmplfied treatment, instead Of violating
the instincts of the sick, stuying those in
stincts2 How he dcnounces that system
of slow poisoning called medical admin
istration, and cites approvingly Dr.Tuley's
4 assertion that the lancet is weapon that
u Stays annually more than the sword and
d DIR. Gallup's declaration that opium in its
preparations has done seven times the in
4 jury. that it has rendered benefit.
HE puts i'll note an extract from DR..
James Johnson's Practical Treatise ON the
Liver, the advice to persons not ailing to
take five grains of blue pill, with one or
n two of aloes, twice week with half Il pint
OF decoetion of sarsaparilla, every day for
q PERIOD to preserve health and prolong
j life. 1t may be pardonable in an innocent
layman to inquire what DIR. johnson
would have prescribed for disease if this
was his method of continuing health.
Robert Smithey relates that in his 'prilni-
tive physic John Wesley prescribed
quicksilver, to be taken by the ounce to
the amount Of one, two or three pounds,
Il I'LL the desired effect was produced from
u which it might be inferred that the desired
effect was to weigh down the patient in
\ his bed.
In the fall of 1917 the eyes of all
Europe were turned to the Princess
Charlotte of England, The people We're
&ANihE III hiotOHAtllb Nuutl u Dlllu anu III
sane old king and an unprncipled prince
®ent, afterwards George Nv. The hopes
Nof good men rested upon the dawn of a
day when the Princess Charlotte should
plesent the country an heir to the throne.
The stock exchange was affected by
rpmors, aud it was calculated that prin-
cess would only raise the lands q per
cent, whilst q prince would send them up
~ least g per cent The course of medical
and surgical treatment to which this un-
.happy lady was subjected seems almost
incredible. The custom prevailed of lower
ing the organic strength Of the mother
\ by bleeding nperients and low diet and
( this treatment was pursued for months
The unhappy mother breathed her last
five hours after the birth of Il son, who if
he had survived would have become
\ sovereign of Great Britain. The chief
physician, Sir Richard Croft, fled from life
by suicide or the following day.
SCIENCE OF TODAY.
'iThe two branches of the art of preyen-
ton and cure have merged and expanded
their functions The lawmaker, influenced
4 by the professors of medicine, has brought
1 the aid Of sanitary legislation to enlarge
the beneiicent area of scientific discovery.
The results of the publication of air, water
and earth have checked and bailled
diseases that heretofore have scourged
mankind in crowded cities. The protec-
tive influences and principle of vaccina-
- tlGnA tne discovery Oh specific bacteria IN q
greti variety of diseases promises ilnmu-
nifty from suffering in some Of its most
| ffightful forms-even hydrvphobia How
! important is the part assigned in this great
drama Of human affairs To the cognatc use
futAess of the optician and chemist
ELIMINATION or WAR.
4 "What surprise some student of chemis-
try now unknown to fame may prepare to
revolutionize modern warfare is not
y known, but il is guessed and even asserted
that there are grounds for the belief that
the great clash of armies, in expectation of
\ which millions of armed men are now
straining in the leash, will be decided by
some new, silent, smokeless and destruc-
tive agency, whose power will be ire
sistible and therefore admitted as conclu-
siye Feryently let us hope that bloody
| arbitraments may be rendered useless by
! the acceptance of logical results, and, to
use the language of General Sheridan, that
by the progress in the discovery of destruc-
tives war will eliminate ITSELF and peace
able arbitration will rule the world. With
such retrospect, better estimate OF the
responsibilities and influence Of the medi.
cal profession and its cognats. branches OF
h science can be formed and its hue import
ance and dignity can be estinated.
.The secrets of the mind as well as OF
the body must be disclosed TO the physi-
clan. To effect d cure the true cause must
be revealed and trusted to the honorable
Y custody of the doctor. Under such circum-
y,j stances the physician learns the true
[ nobility of his profession. He can make no