The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-25
QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR
ENTERTAINING TALK ON IMpOR-
TANT PROBLEMS.
WHAT IS SCIENCE DOING NOW ?
Has it Kept Pace. With Other Developments
in Aresiing fpidemics or Treating
Disease? Some Facts, Fan.
cies and Figures.


information obtainable these days may
be picked up around the hotel corridors.
On each of these beautiful June even
ings groups of well informed gentlemen
may be seen sitting around our hostel
ries discussing interesting and entertain
ing questions:
Some even ngs ago half a dozen WI
known Tarheels were sitting in a group
in front of the Marlborough House. They
were men of learning, of extended in
formation, of wide experience. There
was a physician among them, a lawyer.
two knights of the grip, a merchant and
this writer. They We're discussing the
very interesting subjec+ of healt and
the discussion very naturally took wide
range 1t drifted into questions of>dis-
ease, epidemics, new and old specifics
at. methods of treatment.
finally the physician was asked the
following pertinent question::
Has the medical profession any
greater control over such diseases as ty-
phoid fever than it had in former
years."
''Oh, yes" promptly replied the DOCTOR
'Of course epidemics cannot be stopped
nor can such diseases as typhoid fever
be totally eradicated, but by the adop-
ton of strict sanitary arrangements and
other pre- ventatives the epidemics can be
checked and by pr, mEt and careful treat
ment, bringing into use methods, both
old and new, but mostly new, this and
like diseases may be controlled to very
much greater extent than in former
years"
81 have heard it said," remarked an
other gentleman, that many of the spe-
cities, at least some of them, which are
regarded as established eradicators of
disease, were when first introduced. Wig
orously fought by the profession. Is that
true?''
We'll, to some extent, it is. The pro-
fession, you know, is slow to take up
anything, especially if there is claimed
for it any hidden formula"
did the profession first.fght quinine?'
the gentleman asked.
Eyes, / think it did. or rather it was
some time before it was recognized as
standard or legitimate remedy"
Meanwhile, had it not practically
fought its own way into the laboratories
and into the condolences of the afflicted
without the aid of the profession"
Il think, perhaps, it had. You know
the medical profession, Ike all other pro-
LESSONS, is sometimes a'utocratic, but it
can be convinced, and has been in many
instances, where it first opposed the in
PRODUCTION Of new remedies and new
modes of treatment
You know" continued the doctor,
I'VE physicians believe that when any
thing new is discovered that will allevi-
~ nfh rrtS, Oh II
come boldly to the front without seeking
protection by patents or hidden formu-
las"
but why should not a man who dis
covers real new specific. orcompounds a
new and valuable formula be as much
entitled to profits and rewards from its
use as well asin other fields of invention
or discovery" asked one of the CONNER
cial travellers.
This little dialogue led to a general
discussion of diseases, epidemics and
most of the specifics and modes of treat
ment in which there was at times very
vigorous expressions of individual Opin-
ion.
Finally one of the gentlemen referred
to the Kelley Institute for inebriety,
andin a moment it was ascertined that
three of the group were graduates of the
Kelley Institute at Greensboro, and in
the whole crowd there was not one to ex-
press even doubt as to the efficacy of
this new scientific discovery. 1t is true
few instances were referred to where
men had taken the treatment and gone
back to drinking again. but as one Of the
gentlemen remarked, wherever you could
find one of those you could find ten who
had been cured to stay cured, and had
ever afterwards made sober and useful
citizens.
1T has certainly done more for me"
remarked one of the gentlemen, than
all other specifics or discoveries com
bined."
Yes remarked another, land you
may call it what you please, hidden for
mula. a secret specific, or whatever else
YOU may term it, but | know that it will
cure drunkenness. and the best evidence
is the fact that ] tried it and it cured
me-
Then there was general discussion
of Kelley and his institutes and institute
managers. ending with the general agree
meilt that keeley's was one Of the grand
est discoveries of the age. and Is 1t not
fact? ! think it is, and ] see every day
vigorous. living walking, breathing evil
dences of it.
The grand army of cured keeleyites.
as one of the gentlemen remarked, has
only been forming for about dozen
years. and yet today you find them
adjoining the bench. taking counsel with
fellow law makers, managing success
fully great business enterprises, writing
and teaching .and even preaching. You
find among them the learned, as well as
the unlearned Men of all classes and OF
all callings, are in their daily life attest
ing the efficacy of this wonderful treat
ment. The Kelley Institute at Green's
boro was of course mentioned in the con
versaton above referred to. Indeed, IL
came in for much of the praise. This Is
one of the best of all the Kelley group.
1t is one of the brag recruiting stations
for that grand army Of Keeleyites which
is spreading over the country. rms
Greensboro Institute has won renown. 1t
has hewn this renown out Of situation
that was lettering. 1t has re-established