Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-04-19
DIVISION COMMANDERS.

D.. DIVISION COMMANDERS.
sser.tary A,e.r Names os.srals Smarter.
Wade, Coppisssr s.a Bresks.
WASHINGTON. April l6.-Aftsrs tho
orders for the movement Of troops were
ssnt out Secretary Alssr selected the
Of tho divisions Of The
army that are to assemble IT tho places
all Of whom are well known
for their service In the military branch
Of the government. For the division
at Now Orleans, Brigadisr General W.
B. Shafter, now in command Of the d.
Of California. was Designated;
for that At Tampa, Bngadier General
Wade, now in command Of the depart
ment Of Dakota. for Mobile. Brigadier
General J. J. Ooppingsr, now IN com
mand Of the department OF Missouri:
and for Ohickamauga, Major General
J. r. Brooke. now In command Of tho
department Of the Lakes. These ON
GERS have authority to take with them
to their new commands their enore
staff Of officers and quartermastes.
The command Of the army will de.
volve upon Major General Nelson A.
Miles, who is now at the head Of the
military branch Of tho government.
His temporary headquarters. it 10 said,
probably will DO Ut Atlanta. General
Miles permanent headquarters win de.
pend entirely upon the exlgenoies OF
the situation and the developments OF
the campaign. He win leave the city
econ for his new duties.
THE CABINET MEETING.
Nothing Done Pending the Action Of
Co,srsss % Rssolattees.
WASHINGTON, April IL. The cabinet
meeting was devoted to . general dis
cussion of the Cuban situation, but
without anything Of Importance re.
sulting therefrom. The government
has received no information OF the
preparation Of any note ON tho part Of
the powers, and members OF tho cabi.
net do not think the effort Obviously
making by Spain to concentrate the
powers in her favor win result in their
agreeing on any particular line Of &C.
ton. The present position Of tho ad'
ministration 10 that Of awaiting CON.
gressional action without attempting to
influence it or postpone ito deciston.
Era of the Surgeon's knife.
When the history Of medicine and
surgery of the nineteenth century comes
to be written, the ohronioler will find
the most curious phase of it included in
the period which may be designated the
era Of the surgeons knife. ~.
The tendency began with the use Of
an@sthetics in 1855. The civil war
intensified it. Seeing 80 much blood
and mutilation of human bodies created
an atmosphere of blood and mutilation
around the army surgeons and impelled
them to cut and carve their soldier pa
tients. If soldiers leg or arm was
shattered, the first impulse was to re-
move it altogether. Il 10 certain that
hundreds il not thousands, Of limbs
which might now be doing good service
were thus sacrificed to the mania Of the
surgeon for cutting. The bert medical
authorities themselves admit that many
mistake was made in the cutting
branch Of surgery. I
The era of the surgeon g knife contin.
ued after the war and lasted up till
within few years. Now the milder.
more humane remedial science which
the twentieth century will sec 10 being
ushered in and the ablest surgeons only
resort in extreme cases to the knife.
They find in at least half the cases
where the cutting of process would
formerly at once have BEEN resorted to
that it is unnecessary. Other and gen.
tier means have been discovered Of
sr.dioating the disease. The craze for
the surgeon knife is passing away.
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