Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-16

ventilated and unlighted. The worst
calamity OF the race punished with the
very worst punishment Then come
and look at the insane asylums of Utica
and Kirk bride-sofaed, and pictured
hbraried. concerted. until all the arts
and adornmentS comes TO coax recre-
ant reason 10 assume her throne.
Look al Edward Jenner. the GREAT
hero OF medicine. -Four hundred thou
sand people annually dying in Eu-
rope from the smallpo Jenner finds
that by the incubation of people with
vaccine from a cow the great scourre
OF nations may be arrested. The min
listers of the Gospel denounced vaccina-
ton; small wits caricatured Edward
Jenner as riding in a procession on the
back of COW; and grave men ex-
pressed II as their opinion that all the
diseases of the brute creation would be-
trausplanted into the human family:
and they gave instances where. they
said. actually horns had come out on
the forcheads OF innocent persons. and
people had begun to chew the
cud! But Or. Jeuner. the hero of
medicine, went on fighting for vacci-
nation until il has been estimated that
one doctor, in - years. has saved more
lives than all the battles of anv one
century destroyed
Passing along the streets of Edin-
burgh few weeks after the death of
Sir James y. simpson. saw the pho
tograph OF the doctor in all the win
dows OF the shops and stores. and well
might that photograph Toe put in every
window, for he first used chloroform
as an anaesthetic agent In other
days they tried TO dull human pain
by the hasheesh of the Arabs and
the madrepore of the Roman and
the Greek. but il was left to DIR
James Simpson To introduce chloro-
form as an anaesthctic. Alas for the
writing subjects OF surgery in other
centuries! Blessed be God for the
wetSponEe or vial. in the hand of the
operating surgeon in the clinical de-
partment OF the medical college. or in
the sick room OF the domestic circle. or
on the battlefield amid thousands Of
amputations. Napoleon after n battle
RODE along the line and saw under a
tree, standing in the snow, l.arrcv, the
surgeon operating upon the wounded
Napoleon passed on, and - hours aft
erward came along the same place, and
ne saw the same surgeon operating in
the same place and he had not left it
Alas for the battle6elds without
chloroform
But now, the soldier boy takes n
few breathes from the sponge and for
gets all the pang of the guushot
fracture, and while the surgeons of
the held hospital are standing around
MIN he lies there dreaming of home.
ana mother, and Heaven. No more
parents standing around "A suffering
chlId, struggling to get away from the
sharp instrument but mild slumber
instead of eNcruciation. and the child
wakes up and says: Father, what's
the matter? What's the doctor here to.
day ior?' On, blessed be God for
James y. Simpson and the Heaven-de-
cended mercics of chioroform.
The medical profession steps into the
courtroom, and. after couflictin, wit
nesses have left everything in fog.
By chemical analysis shows It's guilt or
innocence OF the prisoner, as by math.
ematical demonstration, thus addini,
houors To medical Jurisprudence.
his profession has done wonders
for public hygiene! How often have
they stood between this nation ami
Asiatic cholera, and the yellow fcvcr2
ne monuments in Green wood. and NJ.
Auburn, and Laurel Hin tell something
OF The story OF those mon who stood
face 70 face with pcstilcncc in South
ern cities, until, staggering in their
own sickness, they stumble across the
corpse Of those whom they had come
to save. This procession has been the
successful advocate of ventilation.
Ira
until their sentiments were well ex-
pressed by Lord Palmerston. when he
said 10 the English nation at the time
a fast had been proclaimed to keen Off
"a great pestilence: Clean your streets
Or death will ravage, Notwithstanding
all the prayers OF this nation. Clean
your streets and then call on God for
help"
See what this profession has done
for human longevity. There was such
a fearful subtraction from human life
that there was "A prospect that within
few centuries this world would be
left almost inhabitantlcss. Adam
started with whole eternity of earth
~ existence before him. but he cut Oft
the most OF it, and only compar-
atively few years we're left
biiAg tNV years me. ana
then 800, and then 800. and then 200
and then 100, and then 90. and then
the average OF human life came 90 40.
and then it dropped 90 IS.
But the medical science came in. and
since the 10th century the aver
age Of human life has risen from IS
years 90 90; and il will continue TO rise
until tho average of human life will be
30, and ~ will be co. and 10 will be 90.
and man will have no right TO die
before 90, and the prophecy OF Isaiah
will be literally fulfilled And the
child shall die a hundred years old. a"
he millennium for the souls Of men
will be the millennium for the bodies Of
men. Sin done, disease will be done
the clergy and the physician get
ting through with their work at the
same time.
But b. seems 20 me that the
most beautiful benedictiou of the
medical profession has been drop
ped upon the poor. So excuse
now for any one not having scientific
attendance Disrensarics and infrm-
aries everywhere under tine control Of
tho best doctors, some OF them poorly
paid, some OF them not paid as all. a
half-sta-vcd woman comes out from
the low tenement house into the dis