Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-22
PeonIe Suroerv Mad.

TeoPIe surgery "dO.
| That lots of folks are surgery mad,
and lots more are afflicted with q
mania for the removal of tonsils-a
mania which far exceeds the craze
for opera ton on the appendicitis the
frank and outspoken statement of DR..
John N. Mackenzie, one of the learn
ed professors of the famous Johns
Hopkins University. Asserting that
| people in every section of the country
are demanding that their tonsils be
removed for every conceivable reas-
on, and that physicians are not only
yielding to that demand, but encour-
aging it, Professor Mackenzie calls a
halt on the pernicious practice and
says that the general public appear
! to think that an operation on tOnsils
! is a cure for every ailment
"A distinguished general surgeon
of wide experience and practice, and
of exceptionally high professional
skill gave me as his deliberate opin-
ion that of all the surgical insanities
within his recollection, this onslaught
! on the tonsils was the worst" says
DR.. Mackenzie. Never in tie his tory
of medicine has the lust for opera
ton on the tOnsils been as passion
ate as it is at the present time. Some
surgeon are really compelled to oper-
ate againt their better judgment and
they do it to save their practice.
Let US hope that the day Is not
far distant when not only the profess
sion but the public shall demand that
this senseless slaughter be stopped.
Is not this day of medical moral
preaching and uplifting a fitting one
to lift the public out of the atmos-
phere into which it mas been drug
ged, and for the reckless tonsillect-
omist proper time to apply the rem
edy OF the referendum and recall?'
cuba's Christianity.
The newly developed Instruction
in Cuba and tho military operations
started because of it, are adversely
affecting it is stated by authoritative
missionaries, the Christian work of
the island especially that part project
ed and maintained by Americans. The
chief Protestant bodies of this coun-
try having missions in the Pearl Of
the Antilles are the Baptists North
and South, the Episcopal, and the
Methodist South. The earliest there.
even before the politicar freedom of
the island were the Episcopal and the
Baptist South.
The growth of Protestant work in
the island, it is pointed out, among
black and white, has been steady and
large along educational lines. The
Northern Baptist work was early pro-
jected in Santiago and the extreme
east and supported by Americans
through Baptist churches in this
country. are a large Baptist church
in Santiago and several smaller ones
in Oriente province. Attached to these
churches are schools, and these
schools have been attended by child
rem of both races, usually heretofore
without prejudice to either
Reports received by the Baptists
Home Mission Society show that chap
els at La Maya and Jaralucca have
been burned, not by military forces,
but by mauraders and malcontents
Baptists in eastern Cuba alone have
hfty-four churches. The Episcopal
Church has work in nearly all parts
of the island, with a cathedral at
Havana, and considerable educa.
tional system in Guantanamo. 81 do
not look for race prejudice ever to
grow less in Cuba, says a missionary
there, 81 have often wondered that
it had not developed before. Now
that it is here, it has come to stay,
fear. 1t will not seriously affect re-
ligious work. OF course it is to be
deplored, but 1 fail to see low it can
be helped. 1t obtains all over the
world, and is one Of the evils which
the gospel of Christ came into the
worlu to combat. I believe Cuba will
herself be able to readjust herself to
it, and l sincerely hope interference
by the United States will not be nee
essary."