Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-07-28


81 \ this discourse Or. Talmage (who is
now travelling in Europe) puts in an
- unusual light the mission of Christ
and shows how divine power will yet
make the Illnesses of the world fail back:
text, Matthew vi. :, The blind receive
their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers
are cleansed and the deaf hear"
Doctor" | said to Il distinguished sur
geon, do You not get worn out with con-
stantly seeing so many wounds and bro
ken bones and distortions of the human
body "Oh, no, he answered; "all that
is overcome by my JOY in curing them
\ sublimer and more merciful art never
came down from heaven than that of
surgery. Catastrophe and disease enter
ed the earth so early that one of the first
wants of the world was doctor. Our
crippled and agoniZed human race called
for surgeon and family physician for
many years before they came. The first
surgeons who answered this call were
ministers of religion-namely. the Egyp-
tlan priests. And what a grand thing if
all clergymen were also doctors, all d.
DIS were NJ DIS for there are so many
eases where body and soul need treat
ment at the same time consolation and
medicine, theology and therapeutics. As
the first surgeons of the world were also
ministers of religion, may these two pro-
LESSONS always be in full sympathy! But
under what disadvantages the early sur
geons worked from the fact that the dis
section of the human body was forbidden,
first by the pagans and then by the early
Christians Apes, being the brutes most
Ea ha tod lint
no human body might be unfolded for
physiological and anatomical exploration,
and the surgeons had to guess what was
inside the temple by looking at the out
side of it. If they failed in any surgical
operation, they were presented and driv
en- out of the city, as was Archagathus
because of his bold but unsuccessful at
tempt to save a patient.
The Surgeon in History.
But the world from the very beginning
kept calling for surgeons, and their first
skill is spoken of in Genesis. where they
employed their art for the missions Of
sacred rite, God making surgery the
predecessor of baptism. and we see it
again in IL. Kings, where Ahaziah, the
monarch, stepped on some cracked lat
ticework in the palace and it broke, and
he fell from the upper TO the lower floor,
and he was so hurt that he sent to the
village of Enron for aid, and Aesculapius
who wrought such wonders OF surgery
that he was deifed and temples were
sbuiltafor his worship at Pergamos; and
Gpidaurus and Podelirius introduced for
the relief of the world phlebotomy, and
Damocedes cured the dislocated ankle of
King Darius and the cancer of his queen,
and Hippocrates put successful hand on
fractures and introduced amputatiou. and
PraXagoras removed Instructions. and
Herophilus began dissection, and EraSis-
tfatus removed tumors, and CELSIUS, the
Roman surgeon, removed cataract from
the eye and used the Spanish fly; and
HeliodOrus arrested disease of the throat,
and Alexander of TralleS treated the
eye, and Rhazas cauterized for the pre-
yention of hydrophobia, and Percival
Pott came TO combat diseases Of the
spine, and in our own century we have
had, among others, RouX and n Larray
in France, an Ashley Cooper and an
Abernethy in Great Britain and q Nalcn-
tine Mott and Willard Parker and Sam
uel ID. Gross in America and Il galaxy of
living surgeons as brilliant as their pred
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received in walking barefoot over the
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nu'il"h rue ana Nus ., '"e'h are 'h""-
road Of thcn- th,. c,rf,,u.las ~ tot, and
Hezckiah. the palpitatiou OF the heart
spoken Of in Deuteronomy. the >uus,rokc
Of child carried from the fields Of Shu-
mem. crying. My head. uy head K,ug
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