The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-03

when the open ditch into which she falls
/ is an open grave?
| Can such things be?
/ Such things are every day in this greedy
world of ours. Weak and suffering wom-
| en- blind as to their own needs, put their
hands in confidence into the hand of some
I self-styled leader, with The result. that
both fall into the ditch Of failure. and she,
poor thing, staggers on a few more PAGES,
| only to fall into the last ditch, the mouse
appointed for all living
AN Observation-Disclosures NEEDED
Let US drop all figures of speech and
face the facts frankly. Here are thousands
of people suffering from disease of some
form or another. Sometimes the seat Of
disease is in the kidneys, sometimes in the
liver, sometimes it is the heart that is
affected, and at other times the lungs or
the stomach. And sometimes there is that
general decay, that slow wasting, which
We call consumption. The cry of the suf-
ferer is for some one to lead him out of
this desert Of disease into the promised
land of health. \ hundred leaders rise up
in response to the cry. do You know the
way 70 the land Of heaftng Can you lead
me there? Are you familiar with the road?
Can you see plainly which is the easiest
path for my failing feet?" All these
questions the sufferer showers on the
leader" And to ali of them ne answers
with a satisfied Eyes" And so he puts his
hand into the hand of a blind guide and
they start on the journey. Not once in a
hundred times do they reach the land Of
health. The result is a failure, most disas-
trous and most terrible. Do we want to
discredit the medical knowledge and abil-
itv of the guides of the land who treat
disease-the doctors who are the leaders
TO whom the sick intrust their lives? BY
no means. We only want 10 call attention
TO a fanacy that is behind all these fall
ures. and that is that a guide must not
only be q guide by profession and license
hut he must be also familiar with the ter
ritorv in which he works You wouldn't
go on Broadway. New York, and select a
man TO guide you through the Mammoth
caves of Kentucky, because he was the
most expert guide to the sights and scenes
of New York that money could hire. You
wouldn't go TO London and pick out man
who knew every street and turn in the
vast CITY. as the most capable man 70
eufda YOU acress tho trackless Sahara
You recognizes that in these things man
must be a specialist. y man may be
r,arfe-r New York guide and be an utter
Failure in London. It isn't the guide
badge that makes a man a guide II ism
his license by the city. it's his practical
exnerience in the locality in which he
works Apply this to medicine Any phy-
stefan IS considered a safe guide out OF the
condition of disease. because ne is an 3c-
credited physician. Bu1 is ne Safe2 Does
h. know this particular disease? Does ne
know il thoroughly. intimately. closely
4 man may know London in a way. He
may he able 20 follow the broad thorough
fares OF oxford street. Piccadilly, Tratal-
gar SQUARE. The Strand; but take him
few blocks outside Of the main arteries Of
travel. put him into the network Of streets
and alleys that lie barely on, Of sound Of
The roar Of travel on these gre4t thorough
fares and he is hopelessiy lost. 81 il is IN
The treatment Of disease Many physl-
clan knows its broad symptoms. He IS all
right while II follows the general lines he
is familiar with. Let il take him ouc Of
the beaten path into the labyrinth Of
SYMPTOMS that lie close by and ne is u;-
-srIv lost. The only safe guide in disease
! the man thar cant set lost: the man
who knows the alley and the cul-de-sac as
we'll as he knows the main artery q
travel: the man who knows nos only what
a disease is doing. bu; what it can On. and
can keep up with il in every turn and twist
Of its winnings through vein. artery and
nerve. or blood and brain.
Is THERE SUCH A MAN?
Is there such a guide2 There ought ~
be. Every city has its man Who knows
each street and building. who IS thorough
~ oonversant with every house and alley
Of the town. The seas and rivers have
their pilots. who know every rock and
shoal. every eddy and every current. The
painless prairie and the dusty desert have
guides who have lived their lives on these
expausez. and 80 as straight - a given
point as homing pigeon 20 its cote Why
should one fail Of q safe guide in d4se2se2
There should be one. and there is But
how shall We know thar the guide IS safee