Show HOW LEARNED DOCTORS DIFFER DR DK LAWSON english surgeon is hard bard at work endeavoring to smash to pieces the germ theory as aa applied to wound poisoning the use of an in the treatment of wounds and in performing surgical operations has become general with the profession and aad lister the great authority on antiseptics is almost canonized is an accepted dogma in advanced surg surgery ge ry and the exclusion by means of sprays washes and divers kinds of dressings ot the microbes mic robes spores germs and other low classes of organisms that are said to cause blood poisoning poisoning ing has come to be thought near nearly y 1 easen to success by the most skilful operators but now comes doctor tait tail as a missionary stor iary from over the water and announces to tile the american america surgical world that is a delusion delu aioo he has bad a halme time ol of it in tl thac old country in battling g against the orthodox theory for john bull ball is a bish old gentleman to be convinced he is very slow siow to take to anything new but when ho h once adopts an idea or a system he be is just as slow to part with it impatient with audiences he I 1 considers prejudiced and stupid dr tait turned his back on his too conservative countrymen and has been talking to quicker minds and more ready experts on this continent this experienced practitioner has a thorough contempt tor germicides because he has no fear of germs ile he uses simply blood warm water as a wasn gasn and claims almost phenomenal success in the british medical journal tie lie reports one hundred and thirty nine consecutive operations each one involving the opening of the abdomen and the removal of organs without a single g death he used no antiseptics bu but t r simply filled the abdomen with blood warm water and repeated the washing till the water came away clean he says of the dreaded germs if I 1 could get them in sufficiently large quantities and found them dry elastic and absorbent I 1 would wil bingly stuff my pads with them instead of wool the water he used in his operations was not boiled and contained no drug or chemical substance of any kind and on examination by a water analyst was found to contain thirty four different kinds of spore and creatures supposed to be the source of disease and death in wounded tissue that doctors are known to differ on many important issues need not be asserted but this seems so unorthodox a doctrine in the present condition of surgical science that it is quite startling it may be proven that dr tat tait it id right and tuat ane surgical world has gone wrong in following the famed lister in his germ destroying practice for the dogmatism 8 of so called science have been as frequently set aside as the cast iron creeds of theology and each succeeding generation disprove some theory which for a time previously held sway as truth that was thought to be indisputable the moral of this is that people of all grades of intellect and experience should be modest in their claims of what they know and careful in their immovable adhesion to other peoples dicta it is not a good thing to be tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine nor yet to hold bold on to a notion when its fallacy is is demonstrable be sure you are right and then you may go ahead |