| Show 1 TRIUMPH OF Editors are taking turns at i praising the triumphs of medical l e science Surely if there is any class of men that dc deserves erves praise t S for its bravery in fighting for the thc ther f r cause cause ause of humanity it is this noG nohIe noble no- no G ble hIe army that is daily on the firing firing fir- fir J ing line not like soldiers in theis the fL is I excitement nt of battle but rather rathe t like outposts that single-handed single II is fi fight against great odds Only t the other er day IlY one of f these heroes eroes his life in m trying to discover gave i to combat the Rock Rocky Hocky J er r a way Mountain fever caused by the thel l bite of a tick that is found in great numbers in the Bitter Hoot Root r f f sr a valley alley Through the efforts of 1 1 medical edical men we have learned learn leant 1 ed how to check the spread of 1 11 t typhoid malaria and yellow lt r fever ever and even the cholera all and andr r the he b black ack plague have lost most mosto J. J o AI I t of their terrors J it The discovery of the prevalence preva preva- l i Lf leI lence ce and he cure of the hookworm hookworm hook hook- lJ A worm is said to be more wonderful wonder wonder- i i j ful and reaching far than titan that Y 11 t of of the mosquito that carries malaria ma ma- f 1 laria l ria and yellow fever in that it 1 means the regeneration of perhaps peri per per- if 3 i haps Japs half the human race lace Perhaps Per- Per j j haps tomorrow we eve will know how li r to to cure cancer and tuberculosis 1 l We Ve cannot a avoid lI t e conclusion f. f however that what has lias been 0 r. r It done is due largely largel to the work f. f ti 4 me of f- f the sanitary branch brandl of the proY profession pro pro- Y 1 i. rather than thun that which l i x r has as to do with the administering Jr 1 of drugs In fact the peoples people's r r distrust of the efficacy of medicines medi medi- 1 t cines has b been en evide evidenced l in recent rex re re- x fr rJ Y cent years 10 in the springing up of oi ri 1 lt t f I the th the e various N Drug No-Drug 0 D rug BC schools h 00 I s such i as the osteopaths the neurologists neurologists i f. f etc a and d the antithesis is is Jt also found in ln the O Christian Science doctrine a bw 1 f Still another branch of modern f f that has practice accomplished i much that is is good but that is often often of of- i c ten carried to extremes is that oj of X S r surgery We tive e cannot a avoid void the r f belief lief that is surgery sometimes Jr i practiced by hyenas in human It form and that even in the hands 1 I t. t of oft the h e conscientious it f frequent frequent- t I r b becomes a I hobby 10 bl- bl u a and lC I is IS resor resorted resort resort- t I 1 e ed to when there is not the I slightest test excuse for it The I t Y world was startled recently by he information that a New York I r surgeon had prolonged a patients patient's patients patients patient's pa- pa tient's life by winding thirty I if et of f gold wire around his t aorta orta This accomplishment I It iy t was hailed as another great vic vic- 1 nor r y f for r medical science Y Yet Tet t. t rL l t I i there is is s no no noway wa way 01 of proving b that thaiN that thai N e Patient w would not haw ha have ve a Ii lived livet ved I 3 Y I longer longer without the operation t S r lJ T and nd we tive we a are ae not informed how Jt V l many any patI patients have succumbed y v J J t to this pt experiment ment These l' l r J considerations AI o convince couvin ce us that thai s' s c. c with with t ull all its its its- victories victori medical S science has not not yet reached the stage tage where a practitioner can J 5 1 f with certainty predict the resu result t f j of hi his numerations he hc he does oes no not nots not's V knO know s 's t tint that any c tote case is is Incurable f Y and lI d he doe does ilOt not know of a 7 5 a hy tha even eVon the fhe mildest afi af- af 5 r i ion fiction tiun is s cu curable T |
