The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-17
THE CUTTING AND sLAsHlNe OF WOMEN.

The procession of women being hauled to the hospitals
OF the world to be operated upon with the knife is
Iong very sad and very mournful It is one Of
feeble and fragile femnn shattered by the burthens of
motherhood and of mpotency improper hygiene or
imprudent life in youth claim that
is scientific een if medicine is humbug, is Of doubtful
truth Of course butcher cut up hog scientifically
because he is constantly it. But that the average sur
geon can cut up living being with benefit other
than to the doctors pocketbook is questionable in
if not in a majority of cases. It's the not the
man who must submit this flourish of the uptodate
doctors knife Why woman? Is there such difference
between the anatomy of the and between
the boy and girl between the male and female of
kind? We aver there is not.
Yesterday mornings Associated Press dispatches to the
Eagle contained an account of girl dying in
Chicago hospital under operation The string of dead
wagons from hospitals is a continuous What per
cent of these are victims to knife have
of knowing Dr J. H. Tden. formerly practicng pbysi
clan in Wichita now the a sanarium in Denver
declares in the last number of little monthly magazine
published by him. average diagnosis ovarits
appendicitis both which be cut course. We
do not quote doctors language for the
that seems too technically scientific either ourse
readers but that his meaning. Appendicitis
known as an ament twenty-five years ago. But we
quote his plain English paragraph he
asserts that womans ovaries in the opinion
surgery are like old sassarasgrown fields that
grub when boy the dug the more sassafras we
would have the the ovares are removed the more
they spring up causing secondary operations galore
This endless mulation is becoming serious For the
most part chronic cutting business imaginary
belongs the class able to pay for it Tlden says
that the editor of the Eagle, who got himself into
trouble in the smoking department of sleeping car with
lot of DOCTORS returning home course of clinical
lectures and who boasng of the triumphs
the knife humbug medication. Between pufs we
called were not thrown out of the
window either
medical writer of Auckland in a communication from
Zealand to the Philadelphia Medical Record of the
current month. IF might judge what is go
ing here should prophesy that the day of
operating gynecologist will soon be over The ever
lasting operations on the uterus and appendags which
have been the fashion of late years beginning to dis
gust the women themselves. At first they were quite
proud Of these operations hardly felt herself in
the fashion unless she had curetted once or twice
had Alexander Then came the rage for scooping
ovaries and altogether spayng the women
this has become so common that it no longer dis
tinction besides women are not cured of their
aches and pains"
Is that picture overdrawn? Still and of course there
question of the splendid triumphs modern surgery
but like oldtme phleboomy there is an inclination to
the knife a remedy, to make of surgery as
boodettng and leechng at time so far distant
q fad