The Grit-advocate., 1900-07-27

the crippled and sick of ancient cities
were laid along the streets, that peo-
pie who had ever been hurt or disor-
dered in the same way might suggest
what had better be done for the pa
tients and the priests of olden time,
who were constantly suffering from
colds, received in walking barefoot
over the temple pavements had to pre-
scribe for themselves, and fractures
were considered so far beyond all HUI
man cure that instead of calling in the
surgeon the people only invoked the
gods!
But notwithstanding all the surgi-
cal and medical skill in the world,
with what tenacity the old diseases
hang on to the human race, and most
of them are thousands of years old,
and in our Bibles we read of them
the carbuncles of Job and Hezekiah,
the palpitation of the heart spoken OF
in Deuteronomy, the sunstroke OF a
child carried from the fields of Shu-
mem, crying, My head, my head!"
King Asa's disease Of the feet, which
was nothing but gout; detection of
teeth, that called for dental surgery
the skill of which. almost equal to any
thing modern. is still seen in the filled
molars of the unrolled Egyptian num-
mics; the ophthalmia caused by the
juice OF the newly ripe us, Ie-,'--s eLe
people blind by the roadside; epilepsy
as in the case of the young man often
falling into the fire, and oft into the
water; hypochondria, as of Nebuchad-
nezzar, who imagined himself an OF
and going out to the fields to pasture;
the W1thered hand, which in Bible
times, as now, came from the destruc-
ton of the main artery or from paraly-
sis Of the chief nerve; the wounds OF
the man whom the thieves left for
dead on the road to Jericho and whom
the good Samaritan nursed, pouring in
OIL and wine-wine to cleanse the
wound and oil to soothe it. Thank God
Tor what surgery has done for the al
deviation and cure of human suffering!
Surgery Without Pain.
But the world wanted a surgery
without pain. Drs. Parre and Hick-
man and Simpson and Warner and
jackson, with their amazing genius
came forward, and with their anaes-
thetics benumbed the patient with
narcotics and ethers as the ancients
did with hasheesh and mandrake and
quoted him for while, but at the re-
turn of consciousness distress return
ed The world has never seen but one
surgeon who could straighten the
crooked limb, cure the blind eye or
reconstruct the drum of a soundless
ear or reduce a dropsy without any
pain at the time or any pain after, and
that surgeon was Jesus Christ, the
mlghtlest, grandest, gentlest and most
sympathetic surgeon the world ever
saw or ever will see, and he deserves
the confidence and love and worship
and hosanna of all the earth and hal
lelulahs of all heaven. THE blind re-
ce1ve their sight and the lame walk !;
the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf
hear"
notice this surgeon had a fondness
Tor chronic cases. Many surgeon,
when he has had patient brought to
him, has said: "Why was not this
attended to five years ago? You bring
MIN to me after all power of recupera-
ton is gone. You have waited until
there is complete contraction of the
muscles, and false ligatures are form
ed, and Justification has taken place. 1t
ought to have been attended to long
ago. But Christ the Surgeon seemed
to prefer inveterate cases. One was a
hemOrrhage of tMelYe YearS and he