Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-29

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rationt Do you not realize that for
many of the wonders OF sculpture we
are debtors to the Greeks!
Yea, for the science of medicine, the
great art of healing, we must thank the
Greeks. There is the immortal Greek
doctor, Hippocrates, who first opened
the door for disease to go out and health
80 come in. He first set forth the impor-
tance of cleanliness and sleep, making
the patient before treatment to be wash
ed and take slumber on the hide of
sacrifice beast. He first discovered the
importance Of thorough prognosis and
diagnosis. He formulated the famous
oath of Hippocrates which is taken by
physicians of our day. He emanclpated
medicine from superstition, emplricism
and priestcraft. He was the father Of
all the infirmaries, hospitals and medic
al colleges of the last % centuries.
Ancient medicament and surgery had
before that been anatomical and physi-
illogical assault and battery, and long
after the time of Hippocrates, the Greek
doctor, where his theories were not
known, the Bible speaks of fatal med.
ical treatment when it says, In his
disease he sought not to the Lord, but
to the physicians, and Asa slept with
his fathers And we read in the New
Testament of the poor woman who had
been treated by incompetent doctors,
who asked large fees, where it says,
."She had suffered many things of many
physicians and had spent all that she
had and was nothing better, but rather
grew worse - For our glorious science
of medicine and surgery-more sublime
than astronomy, for we have more to do
with disease than with the stars; more
beautiful than botany, for bloom Of
health in the cheek of wife and child is
worth more to us than all the roses of
the garden-for this grandest of all
sciences, the science of healing, every
pillow of recovered invalid, every ward
of American and European hospital, may
well cry out: 'sThank God for old DIR.
Hippocrates! I, like Paul, am indebted
to the Greeks. -
For Liberty and Right.
Furthermore, all the world is obi
gated to Hellas more than it can ever
pay for its heroics in the cause of liber-
ty and right United Europe today had
not better think that the Greeks will
not fight. There may be fallings back
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but if Greece is right all Europe cannot
put her down. The other nations before
they open the portfolios of their men-of-
war against that small kingdom had
better read of the battle of Marathon,
where 10, 600 Athenians, led on by Mil
tiades, triumphed over 100, 900 of their
enemies. At that time, in Greek council
of war, five generals were for beginning
the battle and five were against it. Cal
limachus presided at the council of
war, had the deciding vote, and Mil
tiades addressed him, saying:
1T now rests with you, Cal1imachus,
either to enslave Athens, or, by insuring
her freedom, to win yourself an immor-
tally of fame, for never since the
Athenians were people were they in
such danger as they are in at this mo-
ment. If they bow the knee to these
Modes, they are to be given up to Hip
pias, and you know what they will then
have to suffer, but if Athens comes vic
torious out of this contest she has it in
her power to become the first city of
Greece. Your vote is to decide whether
we are to join battle or not. If we do
not bring on battle presently, some
factious intrigue will disunite the
Athenians, and the city will be betrayed
to the Modes, but if we fight before
there is anything rotten in the state of
Athens I believe that, provided the
gods will give fair field and no favor,
we are able to get the best of it in the
engagement. -
That won the vote of Callimachus,
and soon the battle opened, and in full
run She men of Miltiades fell upon the
Persian hosts, shouting: ION, sons of
Greece! Strike for the freedom of your
country Strike for the freedom of your
children and your wives for the shrines
of your fathers gods and for the sepul-
cheers of your sires! All, all are now
staked on the strife!'' While only 1919
Greeks fell, 6, 400 Persians lay dead
upon the field, and many of the Asiatic
hosts who took to the war vessels in the
harbor were consumed in the shipping.
Persian oppression was rebuked, Grecian
liberty was achieved, the cause of civil
lization was advanced, and the western
world and all nations have felt the he
roics Had there been no Miitiades
there might have been no Washington.
Strong In the Right.
Also at Thermopyl8 800 Greeks,
along a road only wide enough for a
wheel track between a mountain and
marsh. died rather than surrender. Had
there been no Thermopyl9 there might
have been no Bunker Hill. The echo of
Athenian and Spartan heroics was heard
at the gates of Lucknow, and Sebasto-
pol, and Bannockburn, and Lexington,
and Gettysburg. English Magma Charta
and Declaration of American Independ-
ence and the song of Robert Burns, en-
/ titled "A Mans Man For a. That
] were only the long continued reyerbera-