The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-09-12
A LONGER LIFE.
The Average Of Human Existence
Has Been Heightened.
why Men Grow Older Now Than
a Hundred Years Ago.

has heightened the average OF human
life. Others claim that new condi-
tons have brought on new diseases.
It is hard to get at statistics X or
against these opinions. One thing is
certain. however. Men live longer
today than they did in tho days OF
the Revolutionary war. Prominent
men at that time were considered Old
at fifty years. Today when man
reaches the half century goal he Is IN
his pr.ms.
When asked his opinion as TO
whether the average of human life had
heightened with the progress OF med
| ical science, DR.. George F. Shrady
replied:
| "Undoubtedly it har, and we have
no new diseases. 1t is gospel truth
that there is nothing new under the
sun. True enough, emergencies
arise, but we are prepared TO meet
them one by one; not by new discov-
cries, however, bnt by merely evoiv-
ing new methods ont OF old laws
Every branch of medicine has done
much to save life, and that, OF course,
brings up the average Take, for ex-
ample, the operation OF ovariotomy.
It has saved the lives of hundreds OF
, women within the last twenty years.
, The disease is not new; medical men
have learned to treat it. The same is
/. true of anti-toxine, and diphtheria,
8 and so it goes. Appendicitis is not a
Q new disease. People read in the pa
i pers about this and that operation for
d appendicitis. They scratch their
q heads aud say: That's new disease.
o We didn't hear of that when we were
). Young. What will these doctors be
. finding next?' People have been hav'
d ing appendicitis since the days o
,. Adam and Eve, but it is only OF lat
i. years that surgeons have learned how
!. to trcat it The physical body ha
/. always been the same; so there can b
he no new diseases.
ot ..People ara very much like
Nv watches, after all. Some of them ar
.rs made with good works and other
= have weak springs anil neel mendlnl
often. Mortality has been greatly re
duced. it is true; bat this is for tn
most part among children. Nothin
ba has ever been found yet that woul
alf preserve the body after death, and
,ar is pretty hard work keeping perse
;or alive over his allotted years
Every branch of medical scien'
inc has done much to lengthen the ave
tba age of human life" said DR.. Lande
he Carter Grey, the nenrolosist.
far fact, the medical profession is the on
,d;. one that is laboring for the good
,,h the human race. Even the most 81
.at fish physician is an altruist to O.
an. tain extent because he knows that
Her pays him in the long run, II Tor
ted higher reason. If a man makes sol
him great discovery, such as vaccinatio
Init he gives it to the profession. for
mad knows that the glory to be gained
ltrv doing SO will be infinitely greater II
,ads any success that he might attain fr
keeping his discovery to himself
aaa his own exclusive use; and then tn
;noh is the ostracism OF his fellows t
ri, would follow to contend With in Q
mar. he kept his knowledge from the VOL
than "Koch gave his lymph to the wol
retty and for while it created great
can. sation. Then many medical men l
City nounced it a fnilure, DR.. Koch
mes to work again, and it is said that
is making discoveries OF great iml
lance. Probably he is building
his success on that failure, and will
" in ma a sure cure. Anti-toxine prom
{ of a to reyolutionize the treatment
and diphtheria. Certainly, it has 81
v the many lives Improved method
N an living have done more to lengthen
{ ex- average of life than anything
ne in We all have better houses, food, 81
chart ing and sanitation, and who are
earth men who have made study OF
anted things and called the improven
was to the attention of the people?
"the doctors, never asking or recei
opped one penny for it. They have b
, said, knowledge of diseases aud the apl
t till ton of medicines. and OF course
' how saves many people.
, cat. ssSome claim that there are
/ fire. nervous diseases today than eve
Il her fore. True enough, people are 8
q had up to high nervous pitch, but
d try aren't any new diseases; they
,ee. and themselves better and Recognize
sxm. disease, and that branch Of the
,ca and fession which treats nervous d
understands better how to treat