Show MODERN scientific DISCOVERY apall alo of science to the th useful atu arts 1 the lh future holds la in store when anew a new discovery la 13 announced society bits bit and stares at the discoverer as if to say buy well what ira are you going to doi do about abou tit it capitalists dodge him when he be cill calbi py by common content consent lie he is voted a bore lie is generally pool A long course of 0 meditation on mathematical problems has imparted a dazed air to his bia physiognomy ills iha clothes are apt to be ba a y uis his eyes have a hungry look lie to la generally generall y a one idea man on ull all other subjects subject than the one he ha has in land he is in apt to bo be dull and ill informed men lion of 0 the world know that as a rule such buch men fare are either or impostors po it is safe afo betting th that a t nine out of ten tea new discoveries or inventions ill turn out to be or frauds tho the prudent capitalist nover never embarks lioney in enterprise a 3 where the chances pro nino nine to one against success and ana yet there are great discoveries in course of evolution which are destined to 0 o revolutionize revolution ise the world and to pile up fortunes fort unea tor for ohp their fr paton patentees tees compared to which the colossal wealth acquired by tile ho owners of the ball bail telephone will teem seem trifling tako rake the one subject of perida navigation A hundred years have elapsed since Bince Mont golner ter demonstrated the of the air the missing busing link with man him was the power to direct liia ills balloon fifty years afterward john wise bell believed eved lie ha had ilis discovered covered tho the secret be declared that tile the air lay in ia strata in ame soma of which v tile wind was invariable the defect of 0 hla hit 3 theory was as that his hia premises were ware false there is no aerial stratum in which the wind la is invariable lible since 1880 capt krebs and others in france franca and germany have actually constructed dirigible balloons capt krebs made four miles achour an hour against the wind of course this is not very fast traveling but the first railway carriage only made six aix miles milea ian an hour it if krebs can sail ball four miles an hour against the wind lie he can call by perfecting his nia machinery chinery sail forty when lie he does railroad passenger travel will beat bo at an end and the a ago go of aerial travel will begin in a late number of 0 this journal we no noticed the progress that is ia being made in the use of electricity as a motor it seems seeing that st a large proportion of the boots and the clothing that la Is made la ia san JS s to some extent extant sewed by electricity woolly we gay to some extent because thus far the motors sa an only an au auxiliary to the as wing sewing machines the human liand hand and foot aro are still required though their labor la is reduced but it is obvious that the next step stop inthe in the course of 0 invention will be to devolve th the whole work upon the machine when it is ia once I 1 one girl will be able to manage half a dozen machines working simul there thare lit ia no limit to the use ot of electricity as it a motor it if once it can be taught its burnesa bul busa friess nesa surgery is a science which seems deo den tined tilled to benefit largely by the progress I 1 of science we noticed the other day the use to which the telephone had bvm been put for purposes of 1011 and for the diagnosis of throat and lung diseases whore tho the patient could not visit the doctor hero here la Is a field ot of W niilo ido promise for the scientist the tendency of modi medical call and surgical science is toward the adoption ol of specia lt leamen ot of the highest scientific rank will evi deatly tic ally hereafter devote themselves to a eingle single organ or to a single class of 0 diseases and will deal with wita them exclusively such men will be unable to spare time to travel around visiting patients ond and in many casas patients will ix be unable to visit thorn them the telephone will bring the doctor to the sick mans bedside and with the assistance of a photograph and a careful record of symptoms from tho the family physician tho the specialist will be enabled to diagnose and p prescribe surgery has already derived a some ome help from the experiments which it have ave been boado witt with the oxy hydrogen an and d othir othe fierce lights but the progress has had not been bednas a largel large as might bo wished it II seems possible to make a light so piercing that it will enable a practiced eye to sea through the when thesis this is accomplished the physician will callin call in the aid of the surgeon to deal with diseases of the heart the liver the kidneys the bowels tile lungs the throat I 1 the brain instead of nn an empirical diagnosis based on external symptoms tho the surgeon burgeon will see what the tha trouble is not through a glass darkly but clearly early with his own eyesight and the tha patient will have a better chance of recovery than now when the doctor doses him with nitrate of potash to cure a pain which ho he calls 2110 rheumatism because he kalow know what it is and nils MIS him up with quinine to antidote malarial poison san francisco chronicle |