The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-19

laying on of rum and wine. Every other person that was in Wall street when Washington was inaugurated showed signs of smallpox, and this in 17S9. An old deserted iron mine in New Haven was used as a jail. Immigrants from England bound themselves over to their captain as ] semi-slaveS who sold them at auc- ton on the arrival of the ship in New York Cholera was a deadly appeared in the cities of the coast in August. Every other babe that was born died within it's first three months. When men lived in igno- rance they spread black cloud over progress in theology, agricul- ture, manufacturing and medicine Your grandmother went into the woods in the fall and gathered scores of herbs and roots. She mixed the juices together and you had to drink a gourd full three times year If one herb did not get the disease another one would destroy the enc my. with the result-"Another mys terious providence that afflicted the community" When blackness falls 1t covers the slime of the swamp and the sweetness of the lily and rose.
 ts, N1l of the physicians who have achieved maryels for the world. pr. William Harvey in the year Shakespeare died discovered the circulation of the blood and proved that the heart was a pump driving bad blood to the lungs that waste might be dissipated merchants and manufacturers have looked longingly at the isthmus of Panama France furnished the man who led the assault only to be van quished. They built shops and cities and homes and roads only to be driven from their labors by the deadly mosquito and yellow fever Again and again fresh forces came and the enemy rose with typhuS and malaria and typhoid and GOV cred the land with graves, In des pair the French company gathered their scattered forces and left the field in the hands of the enemy Then il was that American physi- clans and surgeons took up the task. The doctor said the mosquito was to blame for the deadly yellow fever. He eXperimented with his own body as patient, and discover ed the willy mischief makers and the germ so deadly. Fastening to the manufacturer he ordered his housa screened and the pools of water GOV cred with oil. In a few months the plague died of eXternination, and men began to hang out their signs advertising the place as a health re sort The canal was built and men rise to praise it's master engineer, but with all the orations of honor and words of praise, the sweet music of safety is heard above it all, as there waits in the soft breeze the deeds of the physician and surgeon
 Another achievement of the medical profession is antiseptic surgery. The goth century has it's seven wonders wireless telegraphy, the long distance telephone. the aeroplane, radium the antiseptic surgery-but, in many respects the greatest of these is the achievement of Lister. He watched the wound of a tree as it bled. He noticed that the tree only decayed where the wound was exposed to the air He began with experiments using carbolc acid and his listerine. He proved that the wounds on the hands and bodies of workmen could be protected and healed without the sloughng off of the flesh or danger soldiers came to get his remedy recognizing what it meant on the bat tlefield. Parents sent for the pre- cious fluid when the child was in jured Life insurance companies learned what it would do for the workman and lowered the rate of insurance One doy Lister knelt be- fore Queen Victoria. and heard these words, Rise up, Sir knight,' Re tiring from active life he sought solitude in little hamlet, and when his noble mind lay down it's cherish ed work the people of England ask ed that his dust might sleep in West minister Abbey-among those whose bodies lie in peace and their names live on forever. Today there are millions who do not know the name of Lister whose health has been made possible and whose years will be prolonged by the discovery of antiseptic surgery.
 Another gift to the human race is anesthesia through ether and chloroform. Pain weakens the body