The Progress., 1897-06-12

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In the first place, think all the ncdi-
cal profession should become Christians
because Of the debt Of gratitude they owe
TO God for tho honor he has put upon
their calling. No other calling in all the
world, except it Ee that of the Christian
ministry, has received SO great an honor as
yours Christ himself was not only
preacher, but physician, surgeon, aurist,
ophthalmoloGist, and under his mighty
power optic and auditory nerve thrilled
with light and sound, and catalepsy arose
from Ats tit, and the club foot was straight
ened, and nnchylosis went out of the
stiffened tendons, and the foaning ma
MAC became placid rs child, and the
streets of Jerusalem became an extempo-
rized hospital crowded with convalescent
victims of casualty and invalidism. All
ages have woven the garland for the doc
tor brow. Homer said:
A wise physician, skilled, our wounds to heal,
Is more than armies to the public veal
Cicero said: "There Is nothing in which
men 80 approach the gods as when they
try to give health to other men," Charles
TX made proclamation that al the Prot
estants In France should be put to death
on st. Bartholomew day, but made one
exception, and that the case of Pare. the
father Of French surgery. The battlefields
Of the American Revolution welcomed
Drs. Mercer and Warren and Rush. When
the French army was entirely demoralized
at fear Of the plague, the leading surgeon
of that army inoculated himself with the
plague to show the soldiers there was no
oontagion In 1t, and their courage rose,
and they went on to the conflict. God has
honored this profession all the way
through. Oh. the advancement from the
days when Hippocrates tried to cure the
great Pericles with bellebore and faxseeti
poultices down to fnr later centuries when
Haller announced the theory of rcspira-
ton. and Harvey the circulation of the
vessels, and JenDer baked the worst dis
ease that ever scoureed Europe, and Syden-
ham developed the recuperative forces Of
>be physical organism, and cinchona bark
stopped the shivering agues of the world,
and Sir Ashley Cooper, and Abernethy,
and Hosack, and Rolneyn. and GriscoIn,
and Valentine Mott OF the generation jost
past honored God and fought back death
with their keen scalpels-
Heroes Of Medicine.
II we who are laymen in medicine would
understand what the medical profession
has accomplished for the insane, let us
look into the dungeons where the poor
creatures used to be incarcerated. Md
men chained naked to the wall. A kennel
of rotten straw their only sleeping place.
Room unventilated and unlighted. The
worst calamity Of the race punished with
the very worst punishment. And then
come and look at the insane asylums Of
Utica and Kirk bride-sofaeda and pictured,
libraried. concerted, until all the arts and
adornTnents come to coax recrcant reason
to assume her throne. Look at Edward
Jenner, the great hero of medicine. Four
hundred thousand people annually dying
in Europe from the smallpox, Jenner finds
that by the incubation OF people with vac
cine from COW the great scourge Of ma
tions may be arrested The ministers Of
the gospel denounced vaccination; small
wits caricatured Edward Jenner as riding
In q great procession on the back of a cow,
a nd grave men expressed 1t as their opinion
that all the diseases of the brute creation
would be transplanted into the human
family, and they gave instances where,
they said, actually horns had come out
on the foreheads of innocent persons and