The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-17
SONS OF OLD IRELAND


Cdu DlcQlCdl men, anu While Il am not
toastmaker ii gives me much pleasur,
to reverence such a body Of men-mer
who have done so much to place oul
profession upon a solid foundation
Conspicuous in our profession are mer
OF Irish blood. Not until the eighteenth
century had an operation ever beer
done successfully for the removal oil
any OF the abdominal organs. Previous
to that time the operation was conced-
ed by the medical world to be hazard.
Gus, so much so that all operated upor
died; so hazardous in fact that the
medical men tried to establish a Law
making II criminal for such an opera
ton to be undertaken, but the fertile
brain of an Irish-American told him
that people were dying every day fol
the lack of surgical interference, and in
1909 the operation of ovariotomy was
done for the first time successfully and
then by DR.. Ephraim Mcdowell OF
Danville, KY, an Irish-AmeTican.
Samuel David Coss, who died in 1884
in recognition of Lis earnest service TO
the profession was honored with men,
bership in many foreign societies. He
received from Oxford the degree of ID.
c. L., from Cambridge that Of l.. L. D..
man who made numerous contribu-
tions to medical literature which alone
served to place him among the most
distinguished men of his time, a man
who is so familiar to us all as. an en-
inent surgeon, was an Irish-American.
We shall ever cherish the memory of
that grand old man, that eminent sur
geon who, when asked after consulta-
ton with other surgeons, where shall
we make this incision,' in trying to re-
move the bullet from the lamented
President Garfield, his reply to DR..
Bliss was, as he took his knife In hand,
here" at the same time making the
first cut / have reference to DR.. d.
Hays Agnew, the greatest surgeon of
his time and an Irishman.
One OF the most prevalent troubles
needing surgical interference is stone
in the bladder, a trouble that has puz-
zled the medical world as much as any
one thing, as to the best means for it's
removal Surgical means is the only
way that this can be successfully
treated. Many ways have been devised
but we claim the man who has done
more to perfect the success of this OPP
Grafton, cystotomy, than any other
man living, and the first man to cut
into the bladder through the abdominal
cavity and remove a stone, this man is
known all over the world as having
devised the operation of suprapubic
cystotonmy DR.. Hunter Mcguire of
Richmond, Virginia, an IrishAmeri-
can.
Within the last few years the surgi-
cal world has been revolutionized and
to-day is handling a disease with a
mortality of from three to six per hun
dred that formerly had q mortality of
from so to rs per cent. More credit for
this is due to one of our men than to
any other man living to bring about
successful treatment of that dreaded
fashionable disease, appendicitis To
that brainy Irishman DIR. McBurney of
New York is due so much of the credit
of this revolution that the location of
the appendix is known as McBurneys
point.
The surgeon who to-day has the
largest practice of any man in the
world and possibly the largest cash
practice Of any man who ever lived, is
DIR. Howard Kelly, a young Irish-Am
erican of Baltimore, Maryland.
And now gentlemen, coming nearer
home, we have a young man in our
midst. young man of ability, young
man true to the principles of medicine
and surgery that he so loves, occupy
ing the highest position in the gift of
his brother practitioners, that of presi-
dent of our State Medical association,
which is a proof of the high esteem i'm
which he is held by his brothers, the
youngest man who has ever held such
a position in the United States, refer
to the young and true Irish-American,
DR.. James Francis Spelman of Ana
conda, Montana.
THE United States of America" was
the subject assigned to j. H. Durston,
who made brief response.
Senator Mats gave few eloquent |
sentiments 20 Patriotism which |
consisted in a love of country and a |
love for fellow citizens which many |
so-called patriots know little or moth
ing about. True patriotism is true
in spirit and gives to all |
races. all creeds, all men the recogni- |
ton to which they are entitled by free |
men in free land. His remarks were |
eloquent and full of a genuine love |
Of country and of broad liberty
Elder G. Z. Barnaby had a few |
words to say for Montana" the en-
pire state of the West. A state whose
resources are as yet unknown, whose
wealth cannot be calculated, whose
people are patriotic and independent
whose future cannot be even predicted
and time alone can tell
how great is Montana, how noble her
people.
Hon. j. F. Finerty at this hour.
which was after the small hours of the
night spoke upon "St. Patrick's Day in
the Morning" His address was full of
Wit and story, was interesting and elo-
luent, but owing to the early hour
sannot be quoted.
Chairman Kennedy then toasted
our Honored Guest"
Ireland" said me. has made us
many gifts from her wealth of genius.
soldiers, sailors. statesmen, lawyers,
doctors and in every walk of life the
1oung men of Ireland have made for
themselves and our country a name.
Tonight we welcome to Montana one
# the men who has added lustre to the
achievements of these adopted sons of
he republic. AS a journalist, soldier.
orator he has made for
himself a place in the annals of his
DRY and holds a niche In the heart of
very liberty loving Irishman through
tut this land. In every essential an
American loyal citizen he is none the
ess but all the more devoted to the
'ause of his native land. AS such we
Welcome him tonight and bid him God
peed this morning"