Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-17

will reflect the added luster of the then
republic, and your society will be proper
tionately as much larger and stronger than
II is today.
May there be given to those who are
charged with the responsibilities of today
the wisdom. the strength, and the courage
TO transmit the trusts imposed upon them
to their successors unimpaired by any
| lowering of the standard erected by the
great founders of the municipality and OF
your honored society"
Commissioner Ross was followed by DR..
Thomas A. Ashby of Baltimore. represent
ing the medical and chierurgical faculty
Of Maryland. His toast was Our senior
societies"
Dr. Frederick c. Shattuck of Boston. rep
resenting the Massachusetts, State Medical
berg. U. s. A, also spoke. The latter gave
brief biographical sketches of the medical
men in the army and navy who had been
members of the local society.
DIR. King Inspired.
The speech of the evening was that de-
livered by DR.. A. +. King. His toast was:
| Medicine, 1sI9-lS94." From the five min
utes allotted him he thought the commit
| tee evidently intended that he should pre-
sent an accurate account of the history
of medicine during the last seventy-five
years. That was at the rate of fifteen
years a minute.
Medicine. like all sciences, has had its
ages it's stages and its sages. Beginning
| with 1915 he thought, this age of medical
practice might we'll be called the age of
depletion. DIR. King then dropped into
poetry. ard did it so well that he won con-
CALCULATIONS on all sides:
I'm those days, you remember. We bled. and
we bled
And sometimes bled on till the patient was
dead.
When most of us having this passion for
gore
Thought it utterly useless to bleed any
If blood-letting failed to arrest infamma-
ton
The Doctors next hope was profuse sail
This practice was based ON the idea Of
humOrs
Producing all LESSONS from bad blood and
tumors.
While humors like these in a mans body
dwelling
Led to redness, together with pain. heat
and swelling.
The physic was given, without any doubt.
! Hence the dosing began with direfui
emetic,
To be followed in time by a smooth diu-
retic,
And somewhere with these at all times now
and then
potential powder Of old item and ten"
So. to render this. practice in one word
| The entire system was to deplete and de-
plete."
And yet, DR.. King said a change came
over the spirit of medical practice Instead
OF depletion, stimulants were resorted TO;
and instead of bleeding. the doctors insisted
upon feeding. Others would put the patient
to bed and hope. This was the expectant
method With these remarks he said ne mad
reached the year 1893, 4 period remarkable .,.
lied extracts. Here he fell into rhyme
again:
"An extract Of muscle for rheumatic pains,
gray matter extract to nourish our brains.
An extract of teeth for a man that can't
chaw,
A maxillary extract 10 cure lockjaw.
An extract of ocean to cure NAL de mere.
hirsutic extract for those without hair.
duodenal extract to serve a good turn
In healing the ulcers that follow burn.
Now II hearts broken hearts cure. and liv-
ers cure EyerS.
IL plasmodial spleens cure a man Of the
shivers,
If fingers and toes cure up lame feet and
hands,
And lymphatic extracts can cure diseased
glands,
Let US grind up body in one mammoth
mixture.
Blood. bladder and liver and every texture,
And make from this compound cadaveric
pills;
'Twould 4 sure panacea be for all of our Ills.
OF 1893 1 need say nothing more,
But pass on at once to 1894.
We need not consult the books on our
shelves
To learn that this epoch relates to ourselves.
So. whatever We are, and however we're
rated,
Whatever We say must be modestiy stated.
Now, we all know that we are the real
Simon Pures.
We've got the true science and use the true
cures.
We care not. but smile at the laughter of
skeptics,
We know that we cure for we use antisep-
tics.
Should patient but snore while taking
With a gilded machine we spray out his
Should another complain of his tonsils or
larynx.
With high-pressure engine we fizzle his
Should noise in the head rouse another
ones fears,
We shoot some new germicide into his ears
And so with all natural alleys and lanes
Where the orgies of germs produce stric-
lures and pains
We no longer daily with powders and no.
lions,
But charge on the germs with our carbolic
lotions.
No matter natter how dire the disease. or how
1t must.yeld TO this or to H. g.-Bichlorid.
Some patient. of course, will insist upon
dying
A matter of fact 1t is no use denying
But observe OF our treatment there's more
to be said.
These same antiseptics preserve him when
dead"
DIR. G. C. ODER, the poet laureate follow
ed with an original poem full of bright wit
ana loaded with sharp prongs.
DR.. Chas. A. Stowell closed the speech
making with the toast, THE medical
press.
The Guests.
Among those present were Drs G. Wythe
Cooke, S. 5. Adams l.. c. Gray, Geo c.
Ober, NJ. ". Russell Chas. II. Stowell, n
s. Lincoln, A. f. A. King. Theophilus
Parum s. G. Busey, j. Ford Thompson,
Thos. c. Smith, F. c. Shattuck, W. W.
Johnston, VIM. Oster. j. NJ. Toner, T. A.
Ashby T. F.. McArdle q. 3. Harrison, NJ.
F. Thompson. J. c. Bird, T. V. Hammond.
r. F. Holden. j. T. Young, T. NJ. McLaugh-
lin, j. II. Mccormick, ID. z. Wolhaupter,
Robt. Reyburn, Il. T. Somers, W. G. Wood
ward, S. NJ. Burnett, j. S. Stone, d. W.
Prentiss, John Van Renslaer, j. w. Bayne.
j. Wesley Bovee, &. q. Stone, Bradford
Brown, T. Taylor, T. L. MaXey, d. X.
Shute, W. NJ. Sprisg. S. o. Richey. J. S.
McLain, c. F. Rand ". T. Luckett. c. w.
Richardson, W. Fl. Palmer, G.. w. Grinder,
III. Coats. A. Peters, j. l.. Suddarth, G. w.
West, Il. T. Chamberlain, J. F. Winter, G.
A. Wells, w. f. Handy, c. W. Franzoni.
T. G. Alvord, NJ. F. Luthbert J. A. Tar