THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BE LLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1897. THE DOCTORS. Many Reasons are Advanced Why They Should be Christians. The Physician and the Minister Should Go to the Sick Chamber Together, and Work Fray at the Time, and Ramee Dr. Talmage preaches an encourag fraternity, Chron, 16: 13, ing sermon to the medical choosing for his text 11 18: “And Asa, in the thirty and ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet until his disease was exceedingly great, yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers.” At this season of the year, medical colleges of all schools of medi cine are giving diplomas to young doc- tors, and at the capital and in many of the cities medical associations are as sembling to consult about the advance- ment of the interests of their profes- sion, I feel this discourse is appropriate. In my text is King Asa with the gout, High living and exercise have vitiated his my text presents him with flamed and bandaged feet on an ottoman. In fiance of God, whom he hated, he when no blood, and his in de- sends juacks. They rts of lot for certain conjurors or come ana g ons and pannceas weat h ne ou avi $44] ‘And A of £ hl until hi vet Lord, slept doctors kills this ing comps receiv the unive started heal Lhe , AD p the doctors a ne hospits pi htly pow ners thrill with igh and sound and catlaleps arose from its fi straightened, and of the stiffened and the foam ing maniac became placid as a child If we who are lay would , And the club foot was anchylosis went out tendons men in medicine understand what the medical profession has accomplished for the in sane, let into the dungeons where the poor creatures used to be in arcérated. Madmen chained naked to the wall A kennel of their only sleeping place. Room un ventilated and unlighted. The worst alamity of the race punished with the worst punishment. And then come and look at the insane asylums of Utlea snd Kirkbride—wofaed, and piotured, libraried, concerted, until all the arts and adornments come to conx recreant reason to resume her throne Look at Edward Jenner, the great hero of medicine. Four hundred thous sand people annually dying in Europe from the small-pox. Jenner finds that by the inoenlation of people with vac cine from a cow the great scourge of nations may be arrested. The minis. tors of the gospel denounced vacecina. tion; small wits carleatured Edward Jenner as riding In a great procession on the back of a cow; and grave men expressed it as their opinion that all the dise of the brute creation would be splanted into the human family; snd they gave instances where, tiey sald, anotually horns had eome out us look rotten straw on the foreheads of innocent and people began to chew the cud! But Dr. Jenner, the hero of medicine, went on fighting for vaccination been estimated that years, has saved more lives than all the persons until it hes one doetor, in 50 tattles of any one century destroyed! | Passing along the streets of Edin burgh a few weeks after the death of Sir James Y. Simpson, 1 saw a photo graph of the doctor in all the windows | of the shops and stores, and well might that photograph be put in every dow, for he first used chlor anesthetic agent. In other tried to dull human pain heesh of the Arabs and the madrepore of the Roman and the but it left to Dr. James Simpson to in- troduce chloroform as Alas for the gery in other Blessed be God for that vial, in the hand of the operating surgeon in the clinical department of the medi- eal college, or in the sick room of the domestic cirele, or amid thousands of amputations poleon after a battle line and saw under a tree, standing in the snow, Larrey, the surgeon, operat. Greek; wns an anaesthetic writhing subjects of sur- centuries! wel sponge or battlefield Na rode along the on the ing upon the wounded. Napoleon passed and £24 he SAME piace on. urs afterward came along the BUTE battlefield aman 1 pe i to 18 and since & Aver from r.and | Average ill be and it wil right prophe renges Sabbath n “I must that i i church Bes who service for the physician de that, there are a greal many men with their During the secular days they take a hasty lunch at the restaurant, and the Sabbath they make up for six days’ abstinence by especial gor mandizing, which, before night makes their amazed digestive organs ery out And that spoils the even ing church service for the physician they are annoyed by people oming too late. Men walt until last fortress of physieal strength Is and death has dug around it the trench of the grave, and then they run for the doetor. The slight fever which might have been eunred with & foobbath has become un virulent typhus, and the hacking cough, killing pneumonia As though » captain should sink his ship off Amagansett, and then put ashore in a yawl, and then come to New York to the marine office and want to get his vessel In- sured, Too late for the ship, too late for the patient. They blame the doctor, Then there are many who always blame the doctor because the people die, forgetting the divine enactment: “It Is appointed unto all men once to die.” The father in medicine who an~ nounsed the fact that he had disddvered the art by which to make men in this world immortal, himself died at 47 yenes of age, showing that immortal. ty way less than half a century for tim 0, how easyitis when people dine but once a week families on their for a doctor I hen the taken, by the has- | “Malpractice.” with Then the the and die to ery out: the physician must bear and deceptions, all whims the sophistries, and the the irritations of the shattered nerves and the and more never know how gracefully to nn sitratngems, beclouded brain of women especially of men, whe be sick sialivated mouth and who with their curse the as they say will in that is BEGINS doctor, giving him his dues only dues he that case collect The last bill the doctor's bill It restored pa about the paid is 80 incoherent for a and rotund to be bothered with a bill charg ing him for old ealomel and jalap. The physicians of this country do more mis tient, with ruddy cheeks form, slonary work without charge than the put together From the concert room, from the merry party, from the comfortable a cold night, when the thermometer is ii other pre fessions couch on 5 degrees below zero, the doctor must | go right away; he always must go right | AWAY. strain, to go through this to bear physicians drink and pealed and have To keep up under this nervous night work, many strong ap all these annoyances, have resorted to perished. Others have to God for sympathy \ hich i hel and neip, lived were the wise t * GOoCLor A , Judge ve gain: The medical profes to be Christians because th nal contingencies wl destru ASO 8 ction a Warn ungiing Was not he next Yeician was Lrat prac he's in the said the nee There es 5 How You of tl iving the | need 1 the lantern 1 gospel until its | way of the deg need to ory streams across the path arting pligrim, and you | ear of death ‘Hark to the song of Heaven's welcome that eon There lies on the § All the m that y¥ with you eannot quiet him the face. Terror hea ve ie JET KA into the du es stealing over the waters ow a dying sioner brought : Terror in n the heart. How himself up on one v and rphaine ol bu our face, and I am not ready to t so dark? Doctor Blessed for vou an then ¥ O God 1 te ure iI CARL Knee have done this man's wld t : ne frighted a Hliessed the faith IAD Sor will he reward | ot Christian day. bending over a patient and catching his contag ious breath, the and he lies down through overwork, or from doctor home, He In comes faint and sick too weary to feel his own pulse or take | the diagnosis of his own complaiot. He is worn out. The fact is his work on earth is ended. Tell those people in the office there they need not walt any longer; the doctor will never go there again. He has written his last pre- scription for the alleviation of human I'he people will run up his front “How is the doetor today All the sympathies of the neighborhood will be aroused, and there will be many prayers that he who has been so kind to the sick may be comforted in his last pang. It is all over now, In two or three days his convalescent patients, with shawl wrapped around them, will come to the front window and look out at the pass ing hearse, and the poor of the city, barefooted and bareheaded, will stand on the street corner, saying: “Oh, how good he was to us all!” But on the other side of the river of death some of his old patients, whe are forever cured, will come out Ww welcome him, and the Physician of Heaven, with locks as white ns snow, sccotding to the Apoealyptio vision, will come out and yt “Come, in, couik in. I was sick and ye visite! me,” Insect -Eafing Flower, In Borpeo there grows an inseets tating flower whieh bas the smell of tarrion. pain steps and inquire TAXATION OF ALIENS Law to Take Effect on July 1, June If (lavernor The Pennsylvanian Harri Hast burg a in Thi with ITEMS OF Bloomsburg in the Kn tO Agree Forme after wing | taken ev time and from either ntrout were varied but the beginning eight r nine four and three for a except the last, which stood to three for acquittal. The result is what hus been expected since Friday evening, and it was simply a question of endurance on the part of the Jurors. The case will probably be tried again In September. Wilkesbarre, Pa. June 12 J. W. Reynolds and John Expy. Pa burned to death and Maurice Reynolds was fatally burned on the Busquehanna at Pittston last night The dredge was being used by the Bpring Brook Water company in erecting a Alter. The men went to bed in the cabin at 10 o'clock. and soon after a fire broke out In the boiler room. To get on dock they had to run through the boller room, and only Maurice Reynolds lived through the flery ordeal. He was rescued Ly 4 boat from the shore, but was so badly burne ed that he cannot recover. The dredge burned to the water's edge and sank. quittal nine Captain Kyler, of were PERTINENT QUESTIONS. Why Will a Woman Throw Away Her Good I.ooks and Comfort? Convincing Testimony That Much Suffering Peculiar to Women Is Unnecessary. Strongest Bicycle IN THE WORLD. virlee are f » r nt Lol yCics k ! Ol 5 Pei Cent VICKED 1897 Columbia Bicy Steel Tubing. We cor he entire production of this tubing and use it exclu *100 Bicycles 10 STANDARD OF THE WORLD. HARTFORDS, *60, *50, 45 SECOND ONLY TO COLUMBIAS 5) 4 CO. ler POPE MFG. 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