Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1912-11-26

had lost, too" he added facctiously.
Mr.. Lands continued
I'm the last few years have made
almost every kind of speech, but
this is the first time have ever been
called upon to make a hospital speech.
I gladly, however contribute my
voice to the furtherence of the
scheme that has for its object en-
largement of the power and influence
OF the Delaware Hospital / have
always been a friend OF tho hospital
operated by and i'm the interest Of the
community at large II has never
made any difference to me whether
the controlling influence was Cathc
lie or Protestant Homeopathic or
Allopathic I have always been ready
in my weak and feeble way TO speak
a word OF encouragement.
The past two decades have been
decades Of mathless progress aloug
many lines, but along no line has
greater progress been made than
along that related to the Conservation
of health Sanitation. medicine. and
surgery combined. have in recent
years heightened the average span Of
/ human life ten years. and the spec
ialists along these lines have hopes
of doubling this within the next
/ quarter of a century
Il am not very old, but I harken
back to the days of the cup and
| lancet when the general impression
prevailed in medical circles that
when people were sick the proper
thing to do was to raise blisters on
them and relieve them of their blood.
When a little boy, / held the basin
| while my father stuck and bled the
victim I can see him now, while the
bleeding was going on, holding his
watch, taking the pulse and looking
wise And he took money for it,
Some people got we'll in spite of the
handicap. In the course of time. the
microscope went into use in the Lab
oratory and progress really began.
Since then we have been bounding
ahead in preventive medicines, and
curative medicines, In immunization
against disease. in surgery and in
everything else appertaining to better
health and more rational control OF
disease. until there is ground to hope
that one of these days the last en-
/ trenchments Of the enemy will be
captured, and this will be a healthy
world
while ! was in Washington moth
ing interested me more than the
work Of the Public Health and Ma.
rine Hospital Service The victories
won by the physicians and surgeons
I'm our Army and Navy were in them
selves little less than miraculous
But for the part they played il woulC
have been utterly impossible for thi'
Government to have given the poten
, TALLY OF successful administration
TO carrying out the treaty OF peace
, following the war with Spain w
/ did not know il then but we know
now that after that treaty was signed
it was up to the medical profession
, to make IL so that this country coul'
make good and grandly the DIN
, GERS in that profession did thei
, work. And it might be said that viii
this feature eliminated the response
. bilitios that came with the Spanish
American war we're easy of solution
IL costs lives to do IL. To the credi
of the medical profession and TO tn
: soldiers in the ranks be it said tina
! there never lacked volunteers read
20 submit themselves for eXperimer
tai purposes. Some Of them dice
. Others were doomed to lives OF mil
. cry. Secrets were, however. unfolde
= that enabled us TO push work OF saI
itation that has reclaimed and mad
q desirable as places of abode coul
i tries that have been Stunned 9
r breeders of epidemics-
= "The construction Of the Panam
Z Canal will he q monument to III
! achievement OF the medical men
= tho Army and Navy OF the Unite
Y States. and I have several times sui
! gested that. when that magnidcel
: salt-sea highway is completed, theI
r be constructed al the Atlantic III
II trance monument designed by n
v worlds most gifted genius, that wi
IL suggest to all ages to come the stol
s OF the splendid courage. the beautif
m devotion, and the sacred self-sacr
fees that made this great work po
IL sible
t. 1T is proper that Wilmingto
y should keep abreast of the times al
/ it. is important, from every stan
ie point. that the attention of the bus
'e ness men Of this community be eel
tered upon the Importance Of onlari
.s ing the scope and work of its large
II hospital Not until comparatively D
lc Gently have some Of tho man
~ business men Of Wilmington
I'd realize that they had a full grow