Year: 1874




be imitless in the discovery of remedies
to check them. Old Hippocrates would
be poor physician now. He did not
know as much as one of our greenest
medical graduates. Still, he, the dad
dy of the doctors, was sufficient for his
own time and people, But what did
he know about the TRANSMISSION of blood,
or even its circulation? Aristotle him
self didn't know the shape of the human
liver. Those ancient chaps were too
innocent to look into man while living,
and too superstiuious to dissect him
when dead. But IN these days, when
surgeons look at the process of digestion
through hole in a mans stomach,
when conVicts are used as material for
experiments, when all the machinery
and processes of the human body are
laid bare to curious eyes. we may expect,
daily and hourly, new revelations. In
the last few years, the experiment rage
among scientific men has been startling,
to say the least. Indeed, so many facts
in relation to our bodies have been
brought to light, that a wonderful impe-
tus has been given to that materialistic
or pOsitivistic philosophy that has prov
ed such foe to the old forms of relig-
ious orthodoxy. The whole scientific
and medical world has watched, with
intense interest, the progress of Huxley,
Carpenter and Darwin in their investi-
cations. When Huxley got to feeling
around the dividing line between proto-
plasm and protein,-hying matter and
dead matter,-some thought the modern
philosophers stone-the origin of life
was about to be explained. But the
subtle thing eluded his grasp and hid
itself, forever perhaps, beneath veil of
impenetrable mystery. In no way dis
couraged by this not unexpected result,
the scientists now say, let US take life
as it is and thoroughly explore its secret
channels and relations. Though men
may not be able to know what life is.
yet shall its phenomena be well COM
pretended. Already have the biologi-
cal relations between everything, from
the lowest fungus to the most perfect
organization-the human body-been
well classified. The life of plants is in
the sap; the life of animals is in the
blood; but the exact difference between
the cells of the sap and the corpuscles
of the blood is what we do not under
stand. We know that the sap of one
plant will mix with that of another, and
show the union in improved varieties of
fruit. Hundreds of our fruit-growers
innoculate, graft and bud every year,
but few of them appreciate the secret
energies that bring about the desired
end. Scientific men, seeing the happy
consequences of uniting the lives of two
kinds of plants, have tried the expert
ment of combining the lives of two kinds
of animals They have said, if the sap
of an apricot will mingle with that of a
peach, and make the fruit larger and
better, will not the blood of healthy
dog infused into that of a siekly cat have
like beneficial result? So reasoning
and so believing, they have made some
experiments that are not more surpris-
ing than satisfactory. The blood of a
healthy lamb has lately been infected into
the Ueins of a cmlsumptiUe man, and the
disease remoUed. This is a fact that can
be sustained, and will not appear unrea-
sonable when viewed in the light of re-
cent discoveries. Healthy blood is just
what the poor consumptive wants.
What he eats is made into blood, but
the process is imperfect and the quality
is bad. If, then. the pure, vigorous
blood of the lamb takes the place of the
thin. watery fluid upon which the sick
man has been depending for existence,
why should we wonder at the result?
i 1t only proves that the ife-giving
properties of lambs blood are much
the same as the ife-giving properties Ct
mans blood, and that they viii har.
monize as easily as the life currents o.
the fowering-almond and the peaeh-tree.
We think it more than possible this idea
may prove the leader of a mighty reform
in medical science, and believe it may
be of more practical advantage than has
ever heretofore been imagined.


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