The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-22
ATTACKS oUkts ~ RELIGION.
Rev. pr. Aked Says Tendency Of Min
Listers TO Invade Medicine is
Fraught With Danger.

the commencement Of the New Yorl
Medical college and hospital fol
women in the Waldorf. the Rev
! Charles F. Aked attacked the present
tendency of the clergy to invade the
realm Of the physician He mentioned
no names, but it was supposed that he
referred to the ENAMEL movement
He prophesied that II once ministers
were permitted to enter into too close
relations with the women of theil
flock the gravest scandals would re
suit.
DR.. Aked began by declaring that re
/ ligious people now looked toward the
medical profession with admiration al
its spirit, gratitude for its achieve
ments and hope Of what 1t may accom-
plish for the human race. They did
not always do so. Tertullian and st
Augustine denounced surgery as the
mutiiateion Of the temple Of the
Holy Ghost. The apostles creed made
believers think that surgery might
impair the comfort OF the soul on the
resurrection morn. At the end OF
the eighteenth century a woman was
burned In Edinburgh for seeking re-
lief from pain by the use Of simples,
and DR.. Simpson had defended his
discovery OF chloroform from the at
tacks of the religious by an appeal to
the text in Genesis which said the
Almighty threw Adam into deep
sleep before he made Eve from his
rib.
But" went on the speaker, from
this opposition between the two profess
sions, from this hatred. 1t seems that
We are coming to ask place by your
side, to try to usurp functions and
work for which we are not trained
It is very serious question whether
the numerous new cults of the present
day are not introducing old supersti-
tons under new names and old foes
under new faces. Boston OF the TWEEN
tieth century dimes the representatives
OF practices whom Boston Of the sew
enteenth century would have hanged.
do not know which practice is open
to most objection
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