Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-06-17

the wall. "A heuuci VI
their only sleeping place. hocm IN
ventilated and unlighted. The worst
calamity of the race punished WIN 'he
very worst punishment. And thes come
and look at the insane asylums Of utl-
ca and Kirkbride-sofaed and pictured,
libraried, concerted, until all tAe arts
and the adornments come 10 cDax re-
creant reason TO assume her throne.
Look at Edward Jenner, the great hero
of medicine. Four hundred thousand
people annually dying in Europe To
the smallpox, Jenner finds mat oy tne
incubation Of people with vaccine from
a COW the great scourge of nations may
be arrested. The ministers OF the
Gospel denounced vaccination; smali
wits c~aricatured Edward Jenneg as RID
ing in a great procession on the PACK
OF a COW; and grave men expressed II
as their opinion that all or the us
eases of the brute creation Wouid Dc
transplanted into the human famiiy'
and they gave instances where they
said. actually horns had come out on
the foreheads of innocent persons anu
people had begun to chew the u Dut
DR.. Jenner. the hero of medicine, went
on fighting for vaccination until II mas
been estimated that that one doctor, IN
fifty years, has saved more lives tnan
all the battles of any one century de-
stroyed.
Passing along the streets OF Edtn-
burgh a few weeks after the death OF
Sir James Y. Simpson, saw the pno-
tograph of the doctor in all the
of the shops and stores, and well might
that photograph be put in every WIN
dow, for he first used chloroform as an
anaesthetic agent. In other days they
tried to dull human pain by the hash
eesh of the Arabs and the madrepore
of the Roman and the Greek; but 1t
was left to DR.. James Simpson 10 IN
troduce chloroform as an anaesthetlc'
Alas for the writhing subjects OF sur
gerry in other centuries! Blessed be
God for the wet sponge or vial IN the
hand Of the operating surgeon in the
clinical department Of the medical col
lege. or in the sick room Of the domes-
tic circle, or on the battle field amid
thousands of amputations. Napoleon
after a~battle rode along the line n
saw under a tree, standing in the snow,
Larrey the surgeon operating upon the
wounded. Napoleon passed on, n
twenty-four hours afterwarr Came
along the same place, and he saw the
same surgeon operating in the same
place, and he had not left 1t. Alas for
the battlefelds without chloroform.
But now the soldier boy takes a few
breaths from the sponge and forgets all
the pangs of the gunshot fracture, Int
while the surgeons of the field hospital
are standing around him. he lies there
dreaming of home. and mother. and
heaven. No more parents standing
around a suffering child, struggling to
get away from the sharp instrument,
but mild slumber instead Of excrucia-
ton. and the child wakes up and says,
Father. what's the matter? What's
the doctor here today for?" Oh, blessed
be God for James Y. Simpson and the
heaven descending mercies OF chloro-
form.
The medical profession steps into the
court room, and after conflicting wit
nesses have left everything in a fog, By
chemical analyses shows the guilt or
,nnocence of the prisoner, as by math-
ematic demonstration, thus adding ho-
ors to medical Jurisprudence. .
II seems to me that the most beauti-
t,I benediction of the medical pro-
fession has been dropped upon the
moor No excuse now for any ones not
having scientific attendance. Dispen-
saries and inirmaries everywhere I'M
der the control OF the best doctors,
some of them poorly paid, some OF
them not paid at all. A half-starved
woman out from the low tene-
ment house into the dispensary, and
unwraps the rags from her babe, a
bundle Of ulcers, and rheum. and pus-
tules. and over thai little sufferer
bends tt accumulated wisdom of the
ages. ITOW EoSuidplAS uoWu W IdSL
weeks autopsy. In n d~ispensary. in
one year, one hundred and fifty thous-
and prescriptions were issued. Why do
I show you what God has allowed this
profession to do? Is 1t to STR up -FOUR
vanity? Oh, no. The day has gone by
for pompous doctors, with conspicuous
gold-headed canes and powdered wigs.
which were the accomplishments in the
days when the barber used TO carry
through the streets OF London DR..
Brockelsby's wig, to the admiration
and awe Of the people, saying: Make
way! here m DR.. Brockel3by's wig"
No. / announce these things not only
to increase the appreciation OF laymen
in regard to the work of physicians,
but to stir in the hearts OF men of the
medical profession a feeling of graft
tude to God that they have been al
lowed to put their hand to such a mag
niicent work, and that they have been
called into such illustrious company.
Have you never felt a spirit Of graft
tude for this opportunity? Do you not
feel thankful now? Then | am afraid.
doctor, you are not a Christian and