The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22


Parnlyzed and Made n Man In
sane-A study of Diet-Meat as
Food-Cereals-The Test of Chem
istry as to the Qualities of Vari-
Gus Food Materials-MiIk Is AL
most a Perfect Food For Those
Who Can Drink 1t.
Not less glowing than the other
bright promises held out by famous
men interviewed for these articles are
those offered by physicians as to the
future possibilities of medicine and sur
gerry. AS medicine means as clearly pre-
vention as it does cure, the matters OIL
exercise and diet are considered to be
included in this heading.
DR.. George +. Shrady is the most Gel
ebrated general practitioner in the
United States. 1t was he who attended
General Grant during his last illness,
and it has been said that he was called
in consultation by Sir Morell Mackenzie
in the case of the German crown prince
but refused to respond. He is also the
editor of the Medical Record, the fore
most professional journal in the world,
and therefore his opinion is Of great i'm
portance Said he:
Medicine in it's broadest sense,
means everything that has to do with
the cure or the prevention of disease.
Greater triumphs will come in the fu-
ture through the discovery of methods
of prevention, than we can hope for in
methods of cure. We shall never be
able to change the laws of nature. We
can only find out what they are and
learn how best to obey them.
'.Of the branches of medicine, surgery
probably shows the greatest promise.
Up to this time more attention has been
paid to the use of drugs than to the use
of knives, from now on drugs will prob
ably be at a premium. Through the
two, methods of curing almost every
organic disease, catarrh, liver complaint
paralysis, and almost everything but
valvular disease OF the heart, will yield
to some extent before the advance of
science. Surgery will play its part in
all of these new methods. It is not
impossible that disease growths will be
actually cut out from the lungs them
selves. In affections of the brain sur
gerry will be paramount. Perhaps the
greatest advance of the last ten years
has been made in this direction. 1t has
body are controlled by certain nerve
centers of the brain. For instance, pres
sure on one part of the brain will para
lyze the right leg, pressure on another
part of the brain will paralyze the left
hand, and so on. The exact location of
many of these centers have been dis
covered already, and it has been dem
onstrated that a large majority of these
cases of paralysis is caused by such
hIyf c1ntS
or depressed fractures. In many opera
lions the paralysis has disappeared on
the instant that the pressure has been
removed. ~
. A FRACTURE PARALYzED HIM
AND MADE HIM INSANE.
"An extraordinary interesting case of
this kind has recently developed in New
York A small boy, while playing ball,
was hit on the head by a bat. The in
jury did not seem to be serious, but a
day or two later he began to act queer
ly, and slight paralysis of one arm de-
veloped The following day 1t was plain
that his wound had not only affected
the muscles of the brain center, which
controls one set of mental tendencies.
He. developed an irresistible desire to
kill During the day he attempted to
take his mothers life, and late the
same afternoon she discovered him in
the very act of posing a knife over the
throats of his little brother and sister.
Previous to this accident he had always
been a mild hammered and good natured
child Very sensibly she took him TO a
great brain specialist. and an operation
was at once decided upon. 1t is be-
Ilieved that the blow of the bat depress-
ed the skull at a point where it not only
disabled the brain center controlling ms
right arm, but also injured that Whlcn
kept him good natured and rendered
more active the faculties for destruc-
tiyeness. Thus his case offers not only
a most interesting opportunity fof new
proof of the theory that muscles are
controlled by certain brain centers, but
also of the one which was SO ably ad-
vanced by DIR. Edgar c. Beall in the ar
ticle of this series which dealt with
matters Of the brain. There is little
doubt that relief of brain pressure Will
cure the paralysis of his arm; II II also
wipes out his homicidal tendency new
triumph will have been won for sclen-
tific phrenology.
THE MARvELS OF SURGERY.
DR.. Shrady went on: brain surgery
will not affect insanity. Insanity means
a distributive and general disorganlza-
ton of the whole brain structure. Ii
can rarely be cured. Science must and
will however, deV)t great eiici - ~
earning how to prevent IL.
s'rrtn surgery of the intestlnes IS
also showing glorious results and giving
glmpses of marvellous po$>lbilues. SUI :
gical possibilities with the kidneys ana
liver are almost beyond belief. Much
has already been done toward the cure
of cancer by the knife, and where the
knife has failed remarkable results have
been obtained through the use as
counter actant of the sterilized poison
of erysipelas. There is case now IN
New York hospital of hip tumor. Ii
lit were removed by the knife the man
would be practically cut in two. Ster-
Iilized erysipelas poison is, however, be-
ing used with prospects of very good
results. What would help more than
ANYTHING else in the study of disease
of cause, of effect of prevention, OF
cure-would be government laboratories
land independent incomes for investiga-
i ting scientists. More important than
bureaus for distributing seeds among
farmers would be bureaus for killing
| the seeds of disease.
sThe medicine of the future" he said
lin conclusion, will realize many
dreams. Science is bold enough to hope
for many things which she cannot mus
ter courage enough to speak of to lay
men,"
DIR. EDIsoN's STARTLING THE
DRY.