The Washington herald., 1908-02-09

]
/ his students or colleagues; but II is the
man who lays the abdomen open with
| single stroke of his knife, removes two
| healthy ovares, closes the incision, and
| returns the patient 10 her room In seven
minutes. who commands the attention OF
/ his audience and bears with self-con-
| fident dignity the proud distinction of be-
| ing a bold and brilliant operator"
! All of you know him 10 have been the
| very highest authority in this country.
II was he who had, TO great extent,
/ entire charge or the edical department
| Of the United States during the Spanish
war, and he Was president Of the Nation
! al Association Of America. Dr. Sem IN
! that lecture goes on in as strong Ian
guage as man Of his great ability could
/ use, and condemns very much OF the
/ practice that is being carried on Yet
I these are the persons so condemned that
| we are told we must get a certificate
/ from before we are permitted TO try men
1 tai therapeutics upon.
Alexander NJ Ross, NJ D.. r. S L., OF
/ England, member Of the College Of Ply
| slcianS and Surgeons Of Quebec and On
! tdrlo. professor of hygiene and sanitation
/ at st. Louis Hygienic College of Physi-
/ clans and Surgeons, vice president Of the
! Association of Hygienists Of America.
/ member OF the Ninth Session Of the In
/ teTnatOnal Medical Congress, member OF
/ the British, French, and American AssO-
| citation for the Advancement Of Science,
/ &c, &c, said.
4 arraign the leaders of the profession
1 on The following grave charges; the rank
/ ana nle are but sheep led astray.
/ I charge that whereas the first duty
! of a physician is TO instruct the people
| in the laws of health, and thus prevent
/ disease, the tendency has even been to-
ward a conspiracy Of mystery, humbug.
/ and silence.
/ Il charge that they have encouraged
/ superstition and humbug by the germ
/ theory OF disease. / do not question the
! existence Of infnitesimal micTO-Organ-
/ lsmS, but they are the result, not the
| cause, Of disease. They are scavengers;
/ their legitimate work is 70 clean out the
/ sewers OF our bodies. whenever there is
/ decay puss. or decompOsing matter. that
! these little life savers are doing their
work of naturalization, sanitation, purif-
/ cation, they feast upon effete and decay
/ ns animal matter. they are beneficial
( helpers 20 an important end.
| Il charge that they prescribe 10 their
patients, even Child-bearing and nursing
women, the use Of beer. ale, and other
/ alcoholic beverages. which not only en-
courages drunkenness, but pOisOns the
/ blood Of unborn children, and stamps a
/ permanent appetite for liquor on the ris-
| ing generation"
Germ Theory Overworked.
As TO the germ theory OF disease. I can
remember the time when there was no
such thing as a germ known. Now you
/ Cdu get germs IGE dIAtllUE. INty nave
germs for almost everything
Advancing in our line of argument. we
! take the position that God Almighty
/ heals the sick The Episcopal Church.
according % DR.. Worcester, heals the
sick by what they term mental therapeu-
ties In his lecture I never heard him
/ intimate that God was the healer, and
so far as my recollection goes, he never
mentioned the word God in connection
1 with healing, or the name Jesus Christ
/ lie said that you fixed your mind on the
/ sick one and the mind did the healing
90 not say that the mind has not a Won
/ dertul effect upon the condition OF the
/ body. II Is wonderful factor You can
make man sick or YOU can make him
we'll You can cause death by affecting
the mind. II has been done and can he
But that mind is the healer, that is. TIE
mind OF the human. and that the WOrU-
/ ing upon the human mind Is the healer
/ Of disease and done through science is
/ not true. as we have proved In thousands
and thousands Of cases. and is being
proved every day all over the world. Ii
IS God that heals the sick IN answer TO
prayer OF man in the name Of Jesus
/ Christ This idea is the ShibbOleth OF
/ the Evangelical Christian Science Church
lie spoke OF an incident OF a iady COM
( ing 10 MIN with headache He said.
( Il put my hands over her head this way
/ passing the hands over the forehead, at
the same time telling her some soothing
words 70 cause her mind 20 be quiet. and
! IN a lew minutes the headache was gone"
/ We heal the sick of headaches. I will
give one instance of healing of headache
I once TINS summer while on my yacht
we stopped down on the Lower Potomac
al a place 70 Tie up and let our man cook
our dinner There We're two ladies' who
came down to see US from an adjacent
mouse. one was resident or ST Louis.
Alo-, the other lives in Washington I
could mention their names. if necessary
They happened to know my name and
When II was mentioned the lady from ST
LOUIS remarked Il am suffering from
+ headache, and I have had it ever since
l left St. Louis. which was five or six
I days ago. / took out my watch and gave
/ II 70 her sister and said 10 the sister In
thirty seconds tell me 10 stop" I asked
/ God Almighty 10 heal that headache and
| 10 destroy IL, annihilate it, affirming that
I she, the image and likeness Of God, could
/ not have a headache, and that God would
destroy the belief About that time she
said, stop l said to the afflicted one
+ Your headache is we'll" Well" she
said, as they always do, they are cured
so quick they do not know what hit them
/ 1t is all gone, X it does not come back
I The next day as we were coming back
/ up the river we stopped TO see our friends
l wanted TO see how the headache was
1t had not come back
thEiSt Htaieu the SICK.
| It is no uncommon thing for US in our
! practice to speak the word that Jesus
Christ did, Il command thee to come
out Or command in the manner of
Peter, when he said: In the name OF
Jesus Of Nazareth rise up and walk"
throwing with the word the realization
OF the allness and perfection Of God. L
never spoke the word under like condi-
times-but what there was an instantane-
Gus healing, and the mind of the patient
had nothing whatever to do with It. We
never touched their mind. We only real
lied the. aliness and perfection of good
IN the bosom OF God We speak the word
and the word heals, the word OF truth.
II you will bear with me / will read
what the Bible says along these lines.
Verify, verify, 1 say unto you, he that
belleVeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also ana greater works than
these shall he do, because | go unto NV
Father These are the words Of our
Saviour
For I will restore health unto thee.
and l will heal thee of thy wounds, saith
the Lord. This was spoken prior to the
days of Jesus Christ.
And He sent them TO preach the king
dom of God and 10 heal the sick"
"fhe blind receive their sight, and the
/ lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and
Jhe ueaI near, the dead are raised up
and the poor have the gospel preached
unto them And blessed is ne whosoever
shall not be offended in Me"
If thou wilt diligently hearken to the
voice of the Lord thy God and wilt do
| that which is right in His sight. and wilt
give ear TO His commandments, and keen
all His statutes, / will put none of these
diseases upon thee, which 1 have brought
upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord
that healeth thee"
QTfF
shall the Son Of Righteousness arise with
heaIInE In His MinGs and We shall 20 LIZ.