The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-10
Nrp,crNEs IN VOGUE IN 1900.
A New York Doctor Describes Rene
dies and Ideas of n Century AGO.

A, .no last meeting of the New York
Historical Society DR. sydney H. carney
ir read n paper on THE New YORK Men-
zeal profession In 1850" The better 10
n,,t his hearers into the proper mental
attitude for what he had to say 10
tbem DIR. Carney reminded them that at
the time of which he was speaking
peach plum and pear trees hourisheo IN
Madison square, and Babylonlan naples
aud sycamore trees waved their branches
as they had done for generations In City
Han park Sleigh ride parties TO neigh
boring taverns were popular diversions
with the physicians, as with the lalty.
One doctor records that at one of these
Publications he ''partook OF pancakes
and gin. which waged such war within
my earcase as taught me lesson.
There were ninety -four physicians In
New York in 1900 They all used DIR,
Carney said that stan OF medical pro-
priety a gold headed cane These canes
formerly had within the heads aromatic
vinegar. which had its uses. small
cJo,hes said Dr. Carney. were rapidly
disappearing. and pantaloons were COW
ering n multitude OF shins.' There were
1--WE medical schools In the United states
in 1900 at Columbia college. at Philadel-
phia. Cambridge, Dartmouth and Lexing-
ton. XIV The chair OF chemistry includ-
ed study OF the natural bodies. scientific
medicine, rational and experimental agri-
culture and other things mo doubt the
rational and experimental agriculture in
struct.on was duly appreciated by young
medical men going 20 practice In the
country" said the doctor In lGss sixteen
doctors here had lost their lives trying
TO mitigate the sufferings caused BY the
pIaRus The pay Of doctors at Bellevue
was then % shilliBEs day. The hospital
was three miles out OF town.
The propagation % disease by specific
germs was not then a fact accepted by
all The yellow fever was brought here
from the West Indies then as now. and
conditions here favored It's spread. Yet
a PHILADELPHIA doctor writing to ono 81
his New York brothers said: yellow
fever. 20 long az Tho laws % nature en-
dure cannot De imported. but IL the out
growth OF existing conditions"
There has heea some speculation among
the curious as to the prevalence %
gripes AZ Bedtime among Now Workers q
100 years ago. The remedy FOR this COM
plant prescfibed ny the phyaclans was
nutmeg and brandy ana the yoik OF an
egg 90 be taken before going 20 bod. For
apaplexy salt and cold water w~rs - re
used whereupon the patient Vas '1mms-
dfatety 20 come 20 himself" 4 to1fharAs
remedy oTscacious always with one ex-
ception ia the practice % one physician
was 20 crush lady bgE hetwsen me
thumb AMI foreAnEer anf then % riih ire
Anger on the gum and tooth. Freshly
crushed tuxr were recon- nenisf For
the bite ~ mai dog the prescription
vas an ounce % the fawhone ~ the dog.
some colts tongue ans a gcrpn'e - YER
aixris that taken nom thr eoppcrs -
George 7 and George IT. ban F rrefsrrei.
~ which compound q tFasgsooufui Gay
was 20 ~ taken. n that failed % ~ur~
- grains - veriigris sHA half an ounce
% caioEaei were 70 ~ given En- one snss
By a physician N person. r. tails failed.
four grains q pure 0uigm were Eiveu 20
the patient. This last wsF secret FEM
sdy 81 successful that early in tho cen
turv the state Legislature bought the
secret for 81 90
For visit the Pee charged was q. 20
"a via, ans dose NE Puts were =
cents Doctors Fot 81 a mile for going
rut % town y cost g 20 get one 20
Brpoklyn ard 10 go have enc visit staten
rs'ans For Needing charge - from
81 to e. was made.
Tadpolss dEured IN the fSsiraen %, that
day - such m extent fhat q = saIf fhe
people ~ Vermont IN a season 81 scarcity
almost fattepeA on them Ana one ~
New Works famous physicians spen. n
part nf his time In the STUDY q the aii-
-aentn-~ qualities o. these iii-sdis View
York sun.