The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-07
DR.. ROby's Paper on the Posi-
biIities Of Surgery
In the Coming Century Touches
a FancifuI Vein.
Details Of the Homeopathic Doctors
Meeting in Topeka Ban
cuet Tonight.

ana surgery IN the 4"eaIeCn Zen
tury.
He said: 1.-TWO hundred years ago
medicine presented 6 greater babbung
and confusion Of tongues than the
great tower of Babel. Within that
time revolution after revolution in
therapeutic methods have occurred and
each revolution was but a phase Of
evolution. Great discoveries were
made. great skill attained, and great
results achieved
Now, march all these analytical and
constructive forces forward into the
new century and add to them the gen
Jus and the multiplied advantages nat
uralIy coming over this field from all
the other fields Of science and see what
an avalanche of forces shall march in
triumph through the twentieth cen
fury.
I'VE can justly hope and predict that
the stubborn and arrogant conflict of
dogmatism viii have passed away and
that all medical men viii dwell to-
gether in unity. that hygienic ana vital
knowledge viii be so general and diff
fuse that it win first be a disgrace, then
a misdemeanor, then a crime to be i'll
Of a preventable disease.
Now, walk with me down the path
of all the sciences and we shall see that
none of them are brighter with hope
and blessings for the race than the sur
geon' S path. To-Day humanity has no
better friend and nothing on earth so
near to a Savior as the well equipped
surgeon. That which was once a for
ber's chair to have his scalp tonsorial-
ground Of the surgeon
with all the analytical and correct
i've operations that the mind can for
mulate already accomplished facts
what have we left for the next century
to solve but the systematical and con-
structive prOcedures2 VIII we not
then graft legs and arms and hands
and feet as easily as now We skin
graft? VIII we not then transplant
sections Of lungs and hearts and brains
as now we do sections of bone decal-
cited? Shall we not then pluck the
good eyes from the young victim OF
fatal traumatism and hastily trans
plant them to the sockets of the octo-
genarian as readily and successfully as
we now transplant apple trees from
the nursery to the garden2
THE hopeful prophet in our ranks
can fOresee the day when the hypno-
tized patient shall sit in the surgeon s
chair and tell stories while his brain is
being mended as now he sits ia the bar
ber's chair tohave his scalp tonsorial-
lied.
we are warranted in multiplying
achievements of this century by all
the achievements Of past ages.
Just on the eve of the twentieth
century there is aking a glorious
morning containing new ray Of light
| by which
we see in the outlines hesh-bereft,
/ The scamOlGing that nature left
1 Within the temple of the day
She housed the soul Of man in clay,
And with a new and WondrOus art
Y We trace the chambers of the heart,
4 And watch with eager eyes the flow
/ OF purple currents TO and fro
4 And see the dOOdgates rise and fall
/ Beyond the temples inner wall
I We trace the new and rising zone
] As nature kni1s the broken bone,
1 While through the Iabyrinthine mesh
/ OF bone and sinew, nerve and flesh,
! We follow like the hunters pack,
/ Swift-footed on the bullets track,
And with these mortal eyes profane
/ The inner sanctun1 Of the brain,
And walk unhindered through the
whole
/ Majestic palace Of the soul"
/ Il had intended said DR.. ROby later,
Ito produce a Roentgen ray here in
! this room during this session, but I find
4 it next to if not quite impossible.
had promises Of assistance and ap-
\ paratus from Prof. Blake of the State
1 university and LOveweu of Washburn,
y but we seem to be unable to get the
/ necessary appliances and electric cur
rent. and viii have to give it up"
Other papers that were read last
night were '.Senile GangTene," by DR..
A. NJ. Hutchinson of Hutchinson; THE
/ Report Of a Case" by D. P. Cook of
! Clay Center Hernia. Surgical Treat
nent and Radical Cure by w. D. Eos
/ ter. professor Of surgery in the Kansas
I City Homeopathic Medical college.
There is a notion prevalent" said
Prof. Foster, that operations for her
| MIA are not only dangerous to life but
fT-E1rr Fn TrofT
4 Nothing could be more erroneous. 1t
is perfectly certain that there is more
( menace to life from the hernia itself
I than there is from the surgical opera
( ton for its cure
Secretary e. w. BOardman's paper,
ga Study of Fever Remedies" was well
received. It was technical
The committee appointed in the
| afternoon to investigate regarding the
I applications of four recently disbarred
/ practitioners who asked the society to
put them on a safe footing with the
state again. recommended that a board
of examiners be appointed to look into
/ such cases The report was not ac-
I cepted but laid on the table. and there
I viii be no board Of examiners. Dis
I barred physicians by the state law " i'll
stay disbarred if they depend on the
State Homeopathic society to help
I them out
1--WE cant make a cheap colIege to
give away diplomas like chrOmos,'' said
one of the members.
The members or the society and some
OF THEN friends VIII enjoy a banquet at
the Copeland hotel this evening Dr.
L. A. Ryder of North Topeka viii be
chairman of the bureau of social5ty
and entertainments Among the well
known people outside of the medical
profession who VIII be present and re-
spOnd viii be Governor Morrill, on
State Medicine" Eugene Ware on
The Esculapian Muse" and T. A Nc
Neal on The Medicine Man"
For Over Fifty Years.
Mrs. Winslovv's Soothing Syrup has
/ been used for children teethine II
soothes the child, softens the gums. al
laws all pain, cures wind collie. and is