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Show SLOW ADVANCE IN ' i ART OF MEDICINE I I Only Recently Matter of Scientific Sci-entific Exactitude. i Behind the white-walled. rsaniinry I hospitals of today, with their trained ; physicians, surgeons and'-nurses.Miirks I the shadow of the prehistoric medl-! medl-! cine man and the nebula, gtvstipirsti-tlon, gtvstipirsti-tlon, says Dr. T. K. Qrubeiv sup.eria,-' sup.eria,-' tendent of the Detroit," receiving i hospital. It Is not over 75 yearsttgo' that medicine and surgery beeaihe'.a matter mat-ter of scientific exaetHuderv-iiiHl -not 1 over 50 that It began to rise to its present high estate. , ,t ' Superstition prevailed is the prime curative factor of allniehts r'fitf centuries cen-turies and perhaps has'nor been en- tlrely removed until tlB Jtujtvtwo-. or three decades. The medicine man of the Indian and the negro, 'oodoo juan are an outgrowth of our 'first' piiysl- clans. A pain in the legVa's 'subject j to the treatment of certain Uneanta- tlons and weird steps; tin .in&aruhia-: .in&aruhia-: tion was cured by mysLjcjfyJlapje and tokens spread about rhe,.oor of the sick. Some of these siiperstuio'nf met death with the discoWry -of "the true condition, but many traveled down through the agesj.8;tlie. $tujes of our grandparents. iilaior : i j One of the oldest, which still (Is.ac- cepted with good-natured to'lerahce on ; our part. Is that the heart isJth)e"seat of love. The actor still-'feskSihis hand to the left side ofsriiisubOBion I when addressing love mea.5'0 -the ' heroine, and our vocabulajv.jst,! in eludes such expressions " as ."heart aches," "broken heartecr' 'atitf "heart throbs." A "l&id '-"'' ' ; "In the early days of-MMediral'-itris-' tory the powers attritetfei, Qdrfche heart were numerous," Dtor.pruber says. "The Chinese, anup-jthe first to practice medicine as it Is "understood "under-stood today, held the wholly' e'frbti-' eous belief that the larynx connected with 'the heart and that our food passed Into that organ.. ,It: also; was said to be the seat of pur intellect I as well as our love." . The same; view ; I was held by the Hindus,' 'vvho alsb' ascribed our Intellectual ; powers to the spleen. nii -;:!;: .' ! For ' centuries, probably from the ; beginning of man, illness.jVyas .attributed .attribu-ted to a spiritual power; the permeation permea-tion of the body by some 'evtl: 'spirit, which in the early days' the medicine men attempted to drive otlt with their, weird caperings and tonelessruchaota. It was not until comparatively.. recent years that the physical and the spirit-, ual were disassociated ffi'tue'practiee of medicine and the iheb,rynbf-'"the ' body being a purely cHelcat' formation forma-tion was accepted .dn:'J ni m,;.,,, But in spite of superstitions, f and. ignorance, medicine ma vsomef steps i In the early years of its known' his-' his-' tory. China knew in the,ryears before Christ of a preventative inoculation for smallpox. " " |
