Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-06
SUPPOSED DISCOVERIES.
-,..t,o. Claim That the Ancicnts Knew
,-,- More Than Is Credited TO Them.

-..l account of this book, il advances
-,. remarlable claims on behalf OF MIN
.,, science and civilization.
prince Thakore asserts that the grand
81 discoveries of Western medical gen
Sd. such JAS vaccination. anoesthesia ana
.r.-anuc surgery. were al practced
s-- the Hindoos many centuries ago.
declared that in the "Ayur Ncda, or
-,e of Life. which is the most ancient
.I Brahmin books OF medicine. nearly
u,st iuo5era methods OF medical
.r-sls as well as of practical surgery.
+aIy set forth The circulation of the
-.,l which we say was discovered by
l...--. IS said 10 bc sully set forth in
...- ancient volume of the Iindoo Scrip
- Prince Thak5r. also cites histor-
..t evidence 10 show that Cranial and
..-.n.uaI surgical operations OF the most
sn.,.t kind such as we have supposed
a-e never performed un;u within the last
.. years we've done thousand years
-. .r the .ard Of Buddha. He points TO
ETH. record OF Che trephiuiug of King
E...1 oc Char who lived about A j.
.- ., relieve him from severe pains in
.. a.G The record clearly states that
.. Nme was rendered unconscious. his
.--.rn opened. the cause OF the trouble
.~1red from the brain. The wound clos
81 rr and his trouble completely cured.
g,.El who was Buddha's own physician,
ta,m.d similar operations.
such claims tend 90 shake the self
esteem or Western peoples as the wisest
.L most highiy inventive that have ever
..rn..l enc earth and 10 cast a doubt
r-- thair boast that they are the heirs
. - the AGES iu the foremost files of
.rr Tt is no new thing. however, for
.. -l bee told that light travels from the
r-- to the West and not from the West
t .re East. We speak Of Asia as the
a.a of the race and so il undoubt-
r-y was. We need not he surprised.
--.-1re. a. ass Asia becomes better
SHOWN and it's antiquities more closely in
.r.I into we should ind that much Of
ue supposed new knowledge of the West
v. miiiar I'M the East when the world
v- Young Wendell Phu'ips's most cell
.-j lecture was entitled The Lost
Arts CuriCusly enough il is not included
n rae standard edition Of his published
works. pamphlet copy Of it. published
.s.r.v years ago. Is hard 10 find. The
famous Massachusetts orator very largely
tailed the claims of Prince ThakOre.
IIe boldly declared that Of a hundred mar
r..ls things known 10 the nineteenth
century. niuety-niuc Of them had been an
r.uated by the aUcients He pointed
ul-e particularly TO mechanical arts and
inventions. PIE quoted Phliuy 20 show
that Nero had a ring with a gem in it
sh which ne looked and watched the
sword play Of the giadiators I'm the arena
more clearly than with the naked eye-a
s.el- OF opera glass unknown TO Us mod
ems.
The use Of microscopes OF immense pow
or I'm ancient Egypt. Persia and Greece is
fairly nresumab.e because there is a gem
shown no Parmo. cnce worn ON the finger
OF Michael Angelo. the engraving wherein
IS 2N1 years old, and which reveals the
figures Of seven women only with the aid
Of % strong magnifylng glass. Sir Henry
Bewlin-on brought home from Ninevah a
stone about 90 inches long and 70 inches
wide containing a whole treatise on ma
tf w3Jios that was utterly iliegible with
ON q microscope And If IL can not be
without microscope. IL could not
fEc been engraved without similar aid
1.c Phillips averrej that the art Of col
oriug reached q perfection among the an
.
City OF Pompeii was city OF stucco.
The eXteriors of the walls OF an its build
mss were OF stucco. and the stucco was
stained with Tyriau pu-ple-the royal
color Of antiquity. The city has been
buried lSao years. vet whenever the walls
90 one OF its houses are dug out the royal
purple flames up 20 Wow with a great deal
richer hue than any We can produce.
secret for making fast colors that We have
got. When the English despoiled the
summer palace OF the Emperor Of China
they brought home CurioUsly wrought
metal vessels OF every kind and European
metal workers confessed their inability to
reproduce them. Sheffield steel is an Eng
fish boast but it will not bear the atmos-
1aere Of India without gliding. Yet the
Damascus blades used In the Crusades
were not giided ard they ore as bright
and keen to-day as they were eight cen
turtles ago. There was one shown in the
LONDON Exhibition I'm 1862. the point OF
which could be made 90 touch the hilt. and
which could be put into a scabbard like
corIscrew and bent every way without
'-eak.rs. The best steel i'm the world to-
Day does not come from either Europe or
America but from the Punjaub.
SIP Walter Scott. i'm his Tales Of the
Crusaders describes a meeting between
Richard Occur de Lion and Saladin. in
Which the English monarch is made TO
..'S that Saiadin practices the black art
ause the latter takes an eider-down pill
low from the sofa and causes il to fall
i1 two pieces by drawing his keen blade
ACROSS &c. Travellers i'm India tell Of see
- 'Hrdoos throw handouts of loss-silll
' Che ai- and cut them in pieces with
'a''r tne-Ja~ed sabres There is no steel
30 Western workshops OF that quail
' S'. too. with the art Of Slass-cuttiug.
was supposed thirty years ago that
r' were no ancient glass factories. but
Pompeiian excavations revealed q
Sshop fun Of ground glass. window
cut glass and colored glass OF every
r We plume ourselves upon our
brig ancient Palestine had mary
r.acent canals. with perfectly ar
i gates and sluices. To is doubtful
Notwithstanding NIacAdom. we build
better roads than the Romans. We
not vet discovered q perfect way Of
Initiating either our public buildings or
private houses but the exploration
ae pyramids I'm Egypt show that these
tan tombs were ventilated IN the
scientific manner.
DEP architects are well aware that their
'at predecessors knew some things
are still mysteries to them. Mr..
.1.li pura. president Of the North