The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-19
FOUND A NEW ONE.

when the medical scientists can't ring In
new one on us. They really have the
advantage of most other people, for the
domain of medicine and disease and ev-
erything connected with humanity is so
Wat and varied that 1t affords more "eom
| for speculation and experiment than al
most any other subject. The average man
and woman-also soma doctors-know So
| little about anatomy, physiology and their
kindred and allied branches that It mat
tiers little how ebsurd or impossible any
medical statement may seem, we are not
able to successfully dispute it. That
Justly dreaded disease, consumption,
comes In for its full share of discussion
and experiment, and we ara never sur
prised to read of a new remedy, or a
new theory, the latest we have seen beinS
| thus epitomized by a contemporary:
In any case. DR.. John Lynch of Bridge
| port, Conn, by removing a portion or the
| brain of an educated monkey which had
| consumption has caused it to cease cough
| ing and improve in health. He argues
man, hence it is only necessary for VIC
| tins of tuberculosis to permit DR.. Lynch
| to remove portions Of their brains II they
| wish to be cured-or perhaps 1t were bet
| ter to say they have faith in the doc
| tor believe that men and monkeys belong
| to the same family and think life would
\ be worth while without brains.
Now, it is plain that this alleged dis
| covery wiA open an almost boundless field
for discussion, and that the argument will
necessarily bark back to the origin of
things; and that incidentally reminds US
of something we read few days ago
about a preacher UP IN the Northwest
somewhere who strenuously objects to
having the doctrine of evolution taught in
our schools. Evolution, as he viewed it,
was a doctrine cunningly invented by
the devil in order to lead folks away.
First the devil took the form of snake
| in order to tempt Eve, but now he takes
the form of a man with evolution doc
trines to tempt other men from the ways
Of God"
| We confess that We fail to understand
how evolution, or the doctrine OF evolu-
| ton, should be charged on the devil. II
we take the Bible account, man and wo-
| man were on earth in the form of perfect
human beings, physically considered, be-
fore Satan mixed himself UP with the pro-
ceedings If, on the other hand, we admit
the truth of the real evolution theory,
that mankind sprang from an atom and
gradually developed through ages till he
reached his present stage, we can see no
need or place for working the devil into
the combination. Possibly, however, Par
son Setliff only meant TO charge that II
was the enemy of mankind who is re-
sponsible for the doctrine of evolution.
One of the strongest, and at the same
time one of the weakest points connected
with this evolution theory is the absence
Of positive proof. No man, however pro-
found and well-equipped he may be. can
b, ing up positive evidence that our an
cestors were monkeys, hanging by their
tails to the limbs of the primeval forests,
nIavin1 baseball in the air with cocoanuts
and otherwise enjoying themselves before
they had arrived at the era of perfected
humanity, nor can any man positively dis
nroye the statement. And on that point
| rutionists to the fact that lin the Bible
we are told that God took a rib from
Adams side and out of It made a wo-
| man. Here our evolutionary friends are
| at sea- II man, after thousands of years,
developed from those lower forms Of life,
did God make first an oyster, monkey,
or a chimpanzee of that rib and leave
Adam TO suffer all the inconvenience of
hachelorhood until after untold centuries
Eve stands before him as fair as the
morning."
That hits EN- where they can't well
dodge, but somehow we have wandered
from the subject of the new consumption
cue, AS will be seen. the value of this
alleged discovery depends very much on
whether monkeys and men are analo-
gous or rather homologous. 1--WE must
use some big words, else everybody will
know what we are writing about) II
men and monkeys are practically the
same, it is all right, If the man descend
| ed from the monkey, and Is still in pos
session of some of the physical and men
tai attributes of his ancestors, II is all
right again. In either case they may be
affected in the same way and the same
treatment may be expected to poduce