The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-16
LIST OF MARTYRS
1OSC|ENCE CROWS
Persecution Of Early Days Gives
Place To Deaths From Experiments
LIVES Risked for Others

of the dcatn OF Di' '""" l.
Wells, who recently succumpeu "
FLANDERS, after 10 months OF s'uO
ing. adds another name 10 the 80
growing list oil men who nave a."
msrtyrdom in the cause OF sclvH'l"e
knowledge for the welfare OF thvit 10
low men. says cable 10 the Nc"
York American.
Early scientists, like Cameo, SURF
ed persecution for their ehlsh.eh
ment, and various seekers alleI TIC
secret of the transmutaton OF u-c'a's
or of perpetual motion are Saiu "
have blown themselves 10 pieces III
their search for scientific truth. bu'
with the vast strides which science
and in particular medical sclence-las
made in more recent years the ron
OF martyrs IN the cause or kno"Ieuse
has rapidly increased NoWauas
every research student In a hospltai
carries his life In his hands, anu mere
md there science is claiming her SIC
rifice.
Died Like a Soldier.
Less than three months ago the
death was recorded. in Paris, or Dr.
Jacques Antoine Regpier, son OF
leading member OF the Academy CT
Medicine. who contracted blood pols'
oning while conducting pos NOR
tenn examination in the Neeker nos
pitaI. On his deathbed he urged MS
friends not to grieve, for, he SAID
.I die like soldier on oattleheid'
when YOU take I'D the medical career
YOU are aware OF the dangers, anu
must be ready ever TO face them
Such are the sentiments when AMI
mate most OF the men VINO asVote
their lives today TO the cause OF
science, which is the cause or man
kind.
Eighteen months ago a patient -
quarantine ar Singapore died. and
post-mortem examination became nee
essary, 10 determine the cause oil
death. Two doctors-Dr. Raikes and
DIR. Wray-both government medical
officers, and therefore bound by duty
as we'll as by the call Of science-dis-
charged the periious task. Both meh
contracted the plague. Both men
died. Death on battlefield might
seem more merciful
The death OF Or. Allan Macfadyen'
the bacteriologist. In London two
wears ago. was due 10 a combination
of two diseases which he contracted
IN the course Of his search for a pre-
ventiye OF disease DR. Macfadyen was
connected with the Lister Institute.
and was conducting a series OF expert
ments with the bacteria or typhoid
and Malta fever, with the view Of dis
covering vaccine 10 prevent these
diseases. BY an accident. II Is believ-
ed. he contracted both, and HIS name
was added to the roll OF martyrs CT
the laboratory.
Blood Poisoning Led To Cancer
within few months OF DR.. Mac
fadyen's death occurred the death on
Or. w. III. Brown, one OF the leading
members OF the medical profession in
Leeds and a specialist in The treat
ment of cancer. Two years 21t.ler
while operating, he contracted blood
poisoning. and this. II was believed,
led 10 the cancer which caused his
death.
A fortnight afterward. Or. Seneca
Powell one of the best known protes-
sors OF medicine in the United Slater,
and a teacher in the New York Post
Graduate School OF Medicine, became
a victim OF his daring Investigators
into carbolic acid poisoning, after
three years illness. Believing that
pure alcohol could be used as an an
tidote for carbolic acid poisoning. DR.. I
Powell made repeated experiments on /
himself TO test his theory for the 4
benefit OF the world. His heroic ex
periments were said to have under +
mined his constitution, and he died .
martyr 10 science
Prof Curie, who, with his wife, won
a place in the history Of science as the ,
discoverer OF radium, was perhaps .
saved from martyrs lingering death
by the street accident which cut short
his life His journey TO London with
the first tube OF Tadium ever exhibited
resulted in wound in the chest which (
took months 70 heal, for the radium
emanation passed through his waist
coat and underclothes and burned his
chest to the bone. His experiments
with radium scourged his hands and
arms, which were practically para
lyzed to the elbows and rendered I'M
presentable 10 the eyes OF strangers.
Deaths In America.
In America the early history OF the
Roentgen rays was marked by the I
death OF two men. One was Clarence
Daily. chief assistant TO Mr.. Edison,
hilu the Olnel hdo III. l<CuLo NcLEels
OF New York.
For seven years Mr.. Daily was a
martyr TO dermatids, caused by the
exposure Of his hands and arms 10
the rays. A cancerous growth devel
oped on his left arm, the lower part /
OF which had TO be amputated His /
hair died of. Four fingers Of his \
right hand had to be taken of. and .
finally he right arm followed. But It /
was OF no avail. and in September, /,
1904. his life paid the penalty of his /,
devotion to science.
The sufferings Of DR.. Hall Edwards.
OF Birmingham. who has had botn
hands destroyed by the Roentgen
rays; Of Mr.. Cox. who in February
OF this year underwent a second oper-
alton in consequence Of his early ex.
periments. and OF other X-ray expert
mentors. have been Described during
the past three or four years. Or. &c
Gil Lyster, OF the Middlesex hospital
Finsen light department, is one u the
men who have been manned for life
as the price Of their work in the cause
OF science.