Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-14

.-ul saw that he believes il has
tot - IDS limit. He hRds himself so
Je.-,,Sel wear after year with the new
--s-,ssbed discovers himself and mas out
- o-bers that at each new discovery
to laws up his hands and says: Sure
l.rere can be nothing elser Yet deep
.-s mind he knows there Is Yet more
u IN professional people Of other pro-
..--,srs fl is thought a great pity that
~ ~sw discoveries should come from
I'D But 70 a physician this does
--esenl itself in this way. The new
-.-.,verv does not come from abroad,
81. NOT come from Paris. nor Berlin,
~-- vienna. Il comes from the minds
p. The men who are there. Europe
~ re experimental ground OF the medl-
81 PROCESSION, NewiSe their play
--,,nd. There they meet and study as
[sr cannot meet and study here; and
-,-r The American doctor comes home
-. has eft the sparkle OF his intellect
--- the clevernesS Of his observation 10
5s- fruit and come back 70 him.
.0r course. no doctor but must admit
Ga. physicians can have a liberty IN the
.-r.s Of science abroad that they can
~ have here. There people are absO-
----r without scrupleS in the cause OF
r..4..1e and IL is easy TO get subjects
en- ryDerimentS such as one might
..,--6 the streets and hospitals in vain
81 here. This applies even TO the dis
e-0g table here. where the traffic in
t--.es- absolutely nece ssary for study
-.. carried on in the most surreptitiOus
saw
.Br- 10 the new discoveries. I conf
Ss--'v expect 10 bring back with me
ss,ou-e data for the treatment OF ty-
r-,4 and scarlet feverS. and much for
..s cure Of cancer, the nastiest disease
s,o~o-s have 70 fight But they are
e--rt.rg that also. Take the cancer
t--R- IS sarcOma, and read in the med
s7r annals how it has been controlled
pr me bacillus prodigiosus. l am too
c,-servative 10 think we will cure cam
,s- b1- think II will be kept down IN
-r the natient lives far beyond his ex-
--rq-f0ns when his trouble was first
Pronounced cancer.
LESS OD-SPTLLTNG.
oOf one thing I am very certain, the
s-40s I'm medicine will be along the path
NJ drugs and curatives rather than sur
gerry. Surgery is a good thing. Break
v7rr leg and see if IL isn't. But there
Is zoo much OF it practiced. Surgeons
lament ,-.s as well as physicians. Sur
ea-v 10 its present state OF knowledge
and 5evvlOpment is where IL should be.
There are the antisep,ics and the apph-
s-ces and the cautious surgeons. They
a. what must be done. But rhe next
sen In medicine will be TO spare the
BOOKSELLER from the necessity Of dis
f-u-lng and weakening.
twill tell YOU what I mean. A good
boxing woman came into my Office one
oar lot long ago complaining OF pains
tn her stomach. On being questioned
she complained OF pains everywhere
e.ss-exc-uciaring. awful pains-such
10 ssrv she could not live through n.
"T- was my private opinion that 1t was
rs-v0usness, too much social season
sal Indigestion, so 7 d0ctored her in the
simplest way. She still complains. I
sin doctor her. and I don't expect her
-- ger well unless she gets a rest. with
pleasant diversion for her mind. I
an going away now and am worried
about her. During my absence. If she
Complains 10 a strange doctor as she
c1u1,ained 70 me. he viii be justified
i1 o7srating upon her. in cutting her
Omen 20 find the cause or that awful
agony n her interior. The new medt-
cal science will look out for these cases.
Vow. said the doctor, laughing IN
essv. YOU are getting me to a point
r-e- want 10 avoid-hOw medical sci
enc, 0T the future will treat such cases
ss-iis. Well. IL must mus. II will
--ss- hem by hypuOtfsm. Not hypno-
r-u rs a fad or a folly. a crankism or a
foishness. but hypnOtism as il means
--f power Of mind over matter. Don't
v-l believe in it,? I do. Am I hyp-
r,.ist? No. But II You doubt the pow
or Of hvpnOtism take your friend suffer
ing with malaise to the theatre and note
low we'll she will be, how hypnOtized by
the play,
There is a specialist in New York
who makes a business Of going around
gh-s to put nervous patients 70 sleep.
p does fl by hypnOtism II hurts no
body. does not form the morphine habit
and is very satisfactory 10 every school
Of TeaJmelt I wish all physicians.
myself included, had the courage to
study hypn0tdsm and practice il. But
T. for one would rather cut off my most
a.lab'e hand than be known as a hyp-
1'Ist in the present undevelOped stage
ot t5e science. That is where our indi-
viual weak points come in.
The new discoveries I expect 20 bring
back this summer are going 10 do Won
tars for sickness. and also by way Of
Q-oDhylaxis They will both prevent
end cure. Taking a broad. hopeful view
c. -hingS. they viii make homes hap
per by putting away sickness. Sse
What vaccine has done. And the new
me- life even. We can't ask the Bible
Ing liz even. We can't ask the Bible
70 print new rules. The 'thTee-score and
sem must still hold. but more people
Vii see that age than before"
CLARENCE 5. RUSSELL