Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-07-20
I1EROISM OF AUTHORS
BRAVE BATTLES WAGED AGAINST
THE AGONY OF DISEASE.

cncc md History, Is Indebted to
pnin and Worry nnd Suffering For
Some of Its Choicest Gems.
There are heroes of the pen as well
MS of the sword, and the victories of the
study are quite us affecting and men,
orable as those OF the battlefield.
If IL complete list Of the fine exam
pies of llerosm OF authors were COM
piled 1t would reach well out into the
thousands and include Ii large number
of illustriou' names. In fact, II Is said
That few authors have done really greut
work except under adverse, circum-
stances. Literature, rs well us science,
art and history, is indebted to pain and
worry and suffering for some OF its
choicest gems.
There are few finer examples of the
hcroism OF the study than that present
ri by Professor EiI,scn. the tliscuvcrc.
of the light cure for lupus For the
last twenty years Of his too short life
he suffered from painful discusses OF
the heart AMI liver, to which drODsy
was supcraddcd, and it was only by
daily self denial and the strictrSt diet
ing that lie was able to live at all.
Yet for all these years. lived I'm the
very shadow OF death and in constant
suffering, lie stuck brnvcly to his great
life work. even studying his own dis
eases with the kccncst attention and
writing articles on them for medical
journals. The last two or three years
Of Ills life were spent lying on his back,
unable even to DC carried TO his be-
loved lns!i,dtc Il few yards away, and
yet the lion hearted scientist never re-
lnxed for n single day his gallant fight
for his fellow men against disease.
The hcrOism of the Danish profess
or suggests similar brave battle
wngcd by an English professor J. r.
Green, the historian, against disease
md pain. 1t was in 1909, when the
disease which had assailcd Him for
many years finally Frustrated him AMI
when the doctors gave him no hope Of
living more than six months, that
Green set 10 work to write his famous
"Short History of The English peo-
pie" Day after dry he tollrd 1T his
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