The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-27
b nv SCIENCE.
IAeir Services n. Gsosraphy. MatheAuo.
and Medicine.


Fr7m the Lcac,i.
The event OF the week. eccleviast ical :,
political. has been the election Of the R"%s
Pope, a. the General OF the Iosuits a. g.
mllIarly called, and the occasion NAV
utilized to remind VS. Of what may he
down 20 the credit OF q society not TOO favo
ably regarded by the non-Catholir world.
namely. It's services to the sciences IN genera
and 10 IN healing arr In particular. FOUNDED
by loyola 10 oounterpoisC, and II possibl.
TO defeat, the Reformation promoted hv
Luther, IL pressed into Its service eysry
weapon that could REINFORCE II il the con.
Aicc, and strange az II may seem in an on.
ganlzaGIon accused OF 'obscura ntism.- \
enrolled the man OF science and the medicallv
trained missionary under its banner. In.
sCrIbed -Ad MAJorem Del Gloriam." In
nature Atudy, as we'll a. In mathematlcs
pure and applied. the jesuit In the esrlv
post Renaissance period made his mark m
nearly every department. and the missionarie.
Of the society Overran the new world and
the u~nexplorsd regions Of the old. making
converts 20 the Church and enrichinE In
s~uisntia5 know Ledge s!-esAy ,heiFs ny sss.
current ohaer walton n research.
What visitor to the Vatican has failed IA
be struck, In the Gallery Of the Geographical
Maps. with the sagacity Of the misslonarie,
who framed them-the watershed ~ sub
equatorial Africa. for example. being given.
hypOthetically indeed. but with an approx.
mate accuracy which 1t Vas reserved for the
latter half Of the nineteenth century TO com.
plete aud to ratify2 Again. what student
Of the medical past has forgotten the beauti.
full story OF the discovery OF the quinlne
bearing clnchona and the Introduction in,o
the physicians armory OF "Jesuits' bark
ar~t exhibited In the seventeenth century.
and since then by pharmaceutical refine.
ments developed into the salt which Is 10
the European soJourner In the tropics what
the Davy lamp Il to the miner
msins true 20 his scienUihc traditions " itness
those worthy. Descendants OF the Pere BoecO.
yich. the Padre secchi Famed Tor his Solar
The en later ITEM tndeed. besides Siss w SFEe u D1 ssi::
ms%ssr. pc OF the Society en T tsroSshoa it"' ftaI ~
will always be remembered for his demonstrs.
tion 81 the origin Of that scourge Of the Medi-
sirocco.s Having surmlsed that the said
wind was slwsys ccinSident With a sand
feif. as cultivated Algeria e called, snd the
70 him on the Italian %,iittoreI Whenever a
VIM. ne Padre Denzs being duly prsparsf
for its advyn!. al various points Of the Italian
shore, NTH huge Jug . ISSsd sroS Of casdoG'T nav. wss
over sea inland a thick layer. Of sand was
dsposited n The ssid 1sssdss thus s5;
traced to it's cause. by CELSIUS. namely, the
sense Of heat. OF weight, OF general depres-
sion and lowered vitality experienced during
not TO be escaped till. by reclamation apd
crop culture, the sahara ceases ~ he the
sand ocean II has been from time immS
Inspired by, the traditional genius o. the
record Of mission work forty. years ago in
sscrrbes 70 his nature study and his command
OF the healing art the success OF the enter:
tHSSes' f pO Ts'S and 0t tSs Tile n ~ c arc S5p'' ssttfS S
out as a simple monk about the middle Of tho
last century long before the opening up OF
for travel. be reached the scene Of his labors
with only the Bible and the crotier OF s..
FRANCIS, First he began to make friends
tHs arts of peace and 81 c%iiyyiIissd lie Q
70 ,tepemeuG structure, cooking and clothing.
Al this time, nc was quietly mastering thelr
for them. and finally. translated into u por-
tions Of Holy Writ. Then he set up a print
ing Rrsss IshsnES, 70 SsesIGles from 81 the p pr9rs,
sandsd-x q" SLOW ' IN the ,%periqditcsI ''0 on:
t Rrsh5 II s TaceISSted x as many n'% Of the natives HTYSe;
oSeP re STu'e and eF when O he t r su a. the 20 next
immune, while those who had held hack
from becoming so either died or emerged
from Y ~dIshgnTed. their liking for him deep
eRed into love and q Gupersti. ious belief in
his power. The success OF his mission was
But Il. Was In the degree in which. they re;
enforced religion with science, above all
with the healing art In its widest sense. clinical
and hygteniC, that the Jesuit apostles e-
fected their most s~alutary work "A Work
which la them the progenitors. 50 70
speak. OF Livingstone and BiehOp Pattlson.