Show WOXDERFUL PROGRESS Knowledge is power and to utilize the benefits of one anothers inventions or discoveries of coveries constitutes the greater part mans temporal life From time immemorial the care of the b odily health of man has been assigned to a class of men known as doctors of medicine When sickness invades in-vades the body the doctor is called in When the body sustains injury the surgeon is appealed to for relief I they prove to bo wise practical men in their respective professions all goes well But if they are full of tradi narrowminded superficial ful trd tonal prejudices believing that nothing noth-ing of value can originate in the profession for the ailments of I man and denouncing as a humbug all I al such contrivances put before the public I for the relief of such ailments unless they are governed and controlled and strictly in accordance with the recosjnized code of coe ethicsI say if the physician or surgeon I who is consulted is l man full of those old fogy ideas unsuited for a practical age then the patient must suffer The highest I f fes s1h aim of surgery is to avoid tim use of the knife where it can be done with safety to the patient and the surgeon who makes it I his last as it must be his most terrible remedy is the truly great surgeon Two I things in surgery govern the scienceof anatomy I anat-omy and the mechanical appliance to suit The first is secured in the lecture room on the dead subject the second in the I device and wants of practical work Many operations in surgery demand mechanical lfs almost exclusively Rupture or hernia her-nia is one of them However skilled a su r = I geonmay be in the anatomy of the parts he might be a very poor judge of a suitable I truss We according seldom find surgeons I prepared to speak wisely as to the best i suitable device for this dangerous malady because they probably have never given it special study In factt there has not been 1 till late years any device adequate to the I cure The fact is there is no affection requiring re-quiring so much care to ward off its eyil consequences When Dr J S Blackburn of luE First South street came to this city about four months ago the wouldbe wise of the profession pro-fession denounced him as an inrpostor and I in several instances caused patients to abandon his treatment by advising them that i was not only useless but dangerous etc But notwithstanding all thaI there has been over a hundred of the more prudent pru-dent and intelligent citizens of Salt Lake Gity and the surrounding country who have taken advantage of his treatment and many of them been cured And when such men as Henrv Grow Sen J S Earnest G W Steel John Cowfu John ReMark Re-Mark Cook and J J Walton and many others come out and testify tes-tify thai they know by experience that rupture can be cured by the Blackburn Black-burn method it is certainly time that these prejudices should break down asul these old fogy ideas be laid aside to give place for something more in keeping with the progress of the times This shows I what special study will accomplish and not being afraid to1 stand by a proposition when I you know what you are doing |