HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-6-10, Page 7THE GOUT 4F A KING.
WHY THE. PHYSICIANS , COULD
NOT CURE IT.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Shows the Mistake of
Shutting Out God .From the Realm of
• Pharmacy and Therapeutics—A Benedic-
tion for Doctors.
New York, June 6.—It is not often
that men of one profession leave much
encouragement for men of another pro-
fession, but this sermon, prepared by Dr.
Talmage, contains enthusiastic words of
a clergyman to physicians. The text is II.
Chronioles zvi, 12, 13, "And Asa, in the
thirty and ninth year of his reign, was
diseased in his feet until his disease was
exceeding great; yet in his disease he
sought not to the Lord, but to .the phy-
sicians. And Asa slept with his fathers."
At this season of the year, when medi-
cal colleges of all schools of medicine are
giving uiplomas to young doctors, and at
the capital and in many of the cities
medical associations are assembling to
consult about the advancement of the in-
terests of their profession, I feel this dis-
course is appropriate.
In my text is Sing Asa with the gout.
High living and no exercise have vitiated
his blood,and nay test presents him with
his inflamed and bandaged feet on an
ottoman. In defiance of God, whom he
hated, he sends for certain conjurors or
quacks. They come and give hien all
sorts of lotions and panaceas, They bleed
him. They sweat him. They rnanipluate
him. They blister him. They poultice
him, They scarify him. They drug him.
They cut him. They kill him. He was
only a young man, and had a disease
whioh, though very painful, seldom
probes fatal to a young man, and he
ought to have got well, but he fell a vic-
tim to charlatanry and empiricism.
"And Asa in the thirty and ninth year
of his reign was diseased in his feet, un-
til bis disease was exceedingly great; yet
in his disease he sought not to the Lord,
but to the physicians, And Asa slept
with his fathers." That is, the doctors
killed him.
In this sharp and graphic way the
i Bible sots forth the truth that you have
no right to shut God out from the realm
of pharmaoy and therapeutics. If Asa
bad said: "0 Lord, I am sick. Bless the
instrumentality employed for my recov-
ery!" "Now, servant, go and get the
best doctor you can find"—ho would have
recovered. In other wordsthe world
wants divinely directed physicians. There
are a great many such. The diplomas
they received from the academies of
medicine wore nothing compared with
the diploma they received from the Head
Physician of the universe on the day
when they started out and he had said. to
them: "(o heal the siok, and cast out
the devil, of pain, and open the blind
eyes, and unstop the deaf ears.." God
bless the doctors all the world over, and
• let all the hcspit tls and di:.penearies and
infirmaries and asylums and domestic
eireles of the e.irth respond, "Amen."
ll:ilm in Gi1cad.
y hien of the medical profession we often
meet in the home of distress. We shake
hands across the cradle* of agonized in -
fence. \'i ec>join each other in an attentl:t
at Foley where the paroxysm of grief
di !:tan:.e an anodyne a:; well as a prayer.
, na„ lout Into each other's syxnpathetio
' fee• s through the dusk as the night of
death ie falling in the sickroom. We do
not have to climb over any barrier to -day
in c rlt•r to great eaeh other, for our pro-
fe�:viun are in full sympathy. You, doe-
; tor, are our first and last earthly friend.
: You stand at the gates of life when wo
enter this world and you stand at tho
gates of death when we go out of it. In
the closing moments of our earthly exist-
ence, when the hand of the wife, or
. mother, or sister, or daughter shall hold
our right hand, it'1\ ill give strength to
our dying moments if we can feel the
tips o ;tour fingers along the pulse of
the left wrist. We do not enact to -day,
as on other days, in houses of distress,
' but by the pleasant altars of God, and I
nropoee a sermon of helpfulness and good
, cheer. L in the nursery children some-
' tines re-enact all the scenes of the sick-
' room, so to -day you play that you are
1 the patient and that 1 sen the physioian,
- and take nay prescription just once. It
• shall he a tonic, a sedative, a dietetic, a
, disinfectnut, a stimulus and an anodyne
! at the same time. "Is there not balm in
Gilead? Is there not, a physician there?"
In the first place, I think all the inedi-
: cal profession should become Christians
' because of the debt of gratitude they owe
to God for the honor he has put upon
• their calling. 10 other calling in all the
world, except it be that of the Christian
iininistry, has' received so great an honor
' as yours. Christ bimsolf was not only
preacher, but physician, surgeon, aurist,
ophthahnologist, and under his mighty
.( power optic and auditory nerve thrilled
with light and sound,and catalepsy arose
i from its lit, and the club foot was
e:tightened, and anchylosis went out of
1'the stiffened tendons, and the foaming
1 manners became placid as a child, and the
• streets of Jerusalem became an extem-
I porized.hospital crowded with convales-
'i cent victims of casualty and invalidism..
. All ages have woven the garland for the
• doctor's brow. Homer said :—
• A wise physician, skilled,. our wounds
i.
to heal,
Ismore than armies to the public weal.
Cicero said: "There is nothing in
• which men so approach the gods as when
they try to give health to other men."
Charles IX made proclamation that . all
the Protestants in France should be put
to death on St. Bartholomew's day, -but
made one exception, and that the case of
Pare, the father of French surgery. The
battlefields of the American Reyolution
welcomed Drs. Mercer and Warren and
Rash. When the French army_ was en-
tirely'demoralized at fear of the plague,
the leading surgeon Of that army inocu-
'-sated Himself with the plague to show
'the. soldiers there was no contagion in it,
and 'their courage rose, and. they went
on to conflict. God has honored this pro-
fession all the way,thrnmgh: Oh, the ad-
vancement from the day when Hippo-
crates .tried to cure the great Pericles
with helleboreand flaxseed poultices
down to far later centuries when Haller
announced the: theory of . respiration, and
Harvey the circulation of the: blood, and
Asceli the uses of the, lympathic vessels,
and 'Jenner balked the worst disease that
ever scourged Europe, ' and Sydenham
developed the recuperative forces of the
physical :organism, and cinchona bark
steered' the shiveringagues of the world,
ani Sir Ashley Cooper, aucl Abernethy.
and Hosack, and Romeyn, and •Griscom,
et
aria V alentme Mott of the generation
just past honored God and fought bank
death with their keen scalpels.
Heroes of Medicine.
If we who are laymen .in medicine
would understand what the medical pro-
fession has accomplished for the insane,
let us look into the dungeons where the
poor creatures used to be incarcerated:,
Madmen chained naked to the wall. A
kennel of rotten straw their only sleep-
ing place. Room unventilated and un-
lighted. The worst calamity of the race
punished with the very worst punish-
ment. And then come and look at the
insane asylums of Utica and Kirkbride
sofaed and pictured, librarled, concerted,
until all the arts and adornments Dome
to coax recreant reason to assume her
throne. Look at Edward Jenner, the
great hero of medicine. Four hundred
thousand people annually dying in Eu-
rope from the smallpox, Jenner finds that
by the innooulation of people with vac-
cine from a cow the great scourge of
nations may be arrested. The ministers
of the gospel denounced vaccination;
small wits caricatured Edward Jenner as
riding in agreat procession on the back
of a cow, and grave mon expressed it as
their opinion that all the diseases of the
brute creation would be transplanted
into the hurnan family, and they gave
instances where, they said, actually
horns bad. come out on the foreheads of
innocent persons and people had begun
to chew the cud I But Dr. Jenner, the
hero of medicine, went on fighting for
vaccination until it has been estimated
that that one doctor in 50 years has saved
more lives than all the battles of any one
oentury destroyed!
Passing along the streets of Edinburgh
a few weeks after the death of Sir James
Y. Simpson, I saw the photograph of the
doctor in all the windows of the shops
and stores, and well might that photo-
graph be put in every window, _ for he
first used chloroform as an antesthetio
agent. In other days they tried to dull
human pain by the hasheesh of the Arabs
and the madrepore of the Roman and
the Greek. But it was left to Dr. James
Simpson to introduce chloroform as an
anaesthetic. Alas for the writhing sub-
jects of surgery in other centuries!
Blessed be God for that wet sponge or
vial in the hand of the operating sur-
geon in the olinioal ,department of the
medical college, or in the sickroom of the
domestic circle, or on the battlefield
amid thousands of amputations.
Napoleon after a battle rode along the
line and saw under a tree, standing in
the snow, Larrey the surgeon, operating
upon the wounded. Napoleon passed on
and 24 hours afterward came along the
same place, and he saw the same surgeon
operating in the same place, and he bad
not left it. Alas for the battlefields with-
out ohloform. But now the soldier boy
takes a few breaths from the sponge and
forgets all the pang of the gunshot frac-
ture,
rao-tune, and while the surgeons of the field
hospital aro standing around him he lies
there dreaming of home and mother and
heaven. No snore parents standing around
a suffering child, struggling to get away
from the • sharp instrument, but mild
slumber instead of excruciation, and the
child wakes up and says: "Father,
what's the matter? What's the doctor
here to -day for?" Oh, blessed be God for
James Y. Simpson and the heaven de-
scended mercies of chloroform.
Public Hy;ieno.
The medical profession seeps into the
courtroom and after conflicting witnesses
have left everything in a fog, by ohemi-
cal analyses shows the guilt or innocence
of the prisoner, as by nathematcal de.
monstration, thus adding honors to medi-
cal jurisprudence.
This profession has done wonders for
public hygiene 1 How often they have
stood between this nation and Asiatic
cholera, and the yellow fever 1 The
monuments in Greenwood and Mount
Auburn and Laurel Hill tell something
'of the history of those mon who stood.
fade to face 'with pestilence in southern
cities, until, staggering in their own
siokness, they stumbled across the corpses
of those whom they had come to save.
This profession has been the successful
advocate of ventilation, sewerage, d'•ain-
age and fumigation, until their senti-
ments were well expressed by Lord
Palmerston when he said to the English
nation at the time a fast had been pro-
claimed tokeep off a great pestilence:
"Clean your streets or death will ravage,
notwithstanding all the prayers of this
nation. Clean your streets, and then call
on God for help."
See what this profession bas done for
human longevity. There was such a fear-
ful subtraction from human life that
there was a prospect that within a few
centuries this world would be left almost
inhabitantless. .Adam started with a
whole eternity of earthly existence before
him, but he out off the most of it and
only comparatively few years were left—
only 700 years of life, anis then 500, and
then 400, and then 200, and then 100,
and then 50, and then the average of
hurnan life came to 40, and then it
dropped to 18. But medical science came
in, and since the sixteenth century the
average of human life continues to rise
until the average of human life will be
50, andit will be 60, and it will be 70,
and a man will have no right to die be-
fore 00, and the prophecy of Isaiah will
be literally fulfilled, "And the child shall
die 100 years old." The millennium for
the souls+of men will be the millennium
for the bodies of men. Sin done, disease
will be done—the clergyman and the
physician getting through with their
work at the same time. •
The Dispensaries.
But it seemsto me that the most
beautiful benediction of the medical pro-
fession has been dropped upon the poor.
No excuse now. for any one's not having
scientific attendance. Dispensaries and
infirmaries everywhere under the control
of the best doctors, some of them poorly
'paid, some of them not paid at all. A
half starved woman comes out from the
low tenement house into the dispensary
and unwraps the rags from her babe, a
bundle of ulcers and rheum and pustules
and overthat little sufferer bends the
accumulated wisdom of the ages from
sculapius'down to last week's autopsy.`
In one dispensary in one year 150,000
prescriptions were issued. Why do I show
you what God has allowed this profession
to do? Is it to stir up your vanity? Oh,
no. Tho day has gone by for pompous
doctors,: with conspicuous gold '.headed
canes and powdered wigs, which were the
accompaniment in the days when the
barber used to carry through the streets
of London Dr. :Brookelsby's wig, to the
admiration and awe of the people, saying;
"Masco way: Here conies Dr. Brookelsby's
wig." No, I announce these things not
only to increase the appreciation of lay-
men in regard to the work of physicians,
but to stir in the hearts of the men of
the medical, profession a feeling of grate-
tude to God that they have been allowed
to put their hand to such a magnificent
work and that they have been called into
suoh illustrious company. Haveyou
never felt a spirit of gratitude for this
opportunity? Doyou not feel thankful
now? Then I am afraid, doctor, you are
not a Christian, and that the old proverb
whioh Christ quoted in his sermon may
be appropriate to you, "Physician, heal
thyself.
Another reason why I think the medi-
cal profession ought to be Christians is
because there are so many trials and an-
noyances in that profession that need
positive Christian solace. S know you
have the gratitude of a great many good
people, and I know it must be a grand
thing to walk intelligently through the
avenues of human life and with anatomic
skill poise yourself on the nerves and
fibers which cross and recross this won-
derful physical system. I suppose a
skilled eye ban see more beauty even in
malformation than an architect can
point out in any of his structures,
though it be the very triumph of arch
and plinth and abacus. But how many
annoyances and trials the medical pro-
fession have! Dr. Rush need to say, in
his valedictory addresses to the students
of tho medical college, "Young gentle-
men, have two pockets—a small and a
big pocket; a small pocket in whioh to
put your fees, a large pocket in which to
put your annoyances
A Doctor's Sacrifices.
In the first place, the physician has no
Sabbath. Busy merchants and lawyers
and mechanics cannot afford to be sink
during the secular week, and so they
nurse themselves along with lozenges.
and horehound candy until Sabbath
morning comes, and then they say, "I'
must have a aootor." And that spoils the
Sabbath morning ohueoh service for the
physioian. Besides that, there area great
many mea who dine but once a week
with their families. During the secular
days they take a hasty, lunch at the
restaurant, and on the Sabbath they
make up for their six days' abstinence by
especial gormandizing, which before
night makes their amazed digestive
organs cxy out for a dootor. And that
spoils the evening church service for the
physician.
Then they are annoyed by people com-
ing too late. Men wait until the last
fortress of physical strength is taken and
death has dug around 10 the trench of
the grave, and then they run for the door
tor. The slight fever which might have
been cured with afootbath has become
virulent typhus, and the hacking cough,
killing pneumonia. As though a captain
should sink his ship off Amagansett, and.
then put ashore in a yawl and then come
to New York to a marine office and
want to get his vessel insured. Too late
for the ship, too late for the patient,
Then there are many wbo 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 announced
the fact that he had discovered the art
by whioh to make men in this world
immortal himself died at 47 years of age,
showing that immortality was less than
half a century for him. Oh, how easy it
is, when people die,to cry out, "Malprac-
tice." Then the physioian must bear
with all the whims, and tho sophistries,
and the deceptions, and the stratagems,
and the irritations of the shattered nerves
and the beclouded brains of women, and
more especially of men, who never know
how gracefully to bN eiek. and who with
their salivated mouth Durso the doctor,
giving him his dues, as they say—about
the only dues he will in that case collect.
The last bill that is paid is the doctbr's
bill. It seems so incoherent for a re-
stored patient, with ruddy cheeks and
rotund form, to be bothered with a bill
charging him for old calomel and jalap.
The physicians of this country do more
missionary work without charge than
all the other professions put together.
From the concert room, from the merry
party, from the comfortable couch on a
cold night, when the thermometer is 5
degrees below zero, the doctor must go
right away; be always must go right
away. To keep up under this nervous
strain, to go through this night work, to
bear all these annoyances, many physi-
cians have resorted to strong drink and
perished. Others have appealed to God
for sympathy and help and have lived.
Which were the wise doctors, judge yet.
Piety and Medical Skill.
Again, the medical profession ought
to be Christian because there are pro-
fessional exigencies when they need God.
Asa's destruction by unblessed physi-
cians was a warning. There are awful
crises in every medical practice when a
doctor ought to know how to pray. All
the hosts of ills will sometimes hurl
themselves on the weak points of the
physical organism, or with equal ferocity
will assault the entire line of suscepti-
bility to suffering. The next dose of
medicine will decide whether or not the
happy home shall be broken up. Shall t
be this medicine or that medicine? God
help the doctor. Between the five drops
and the ten drops may be the question of
life or death. Shall it be the five or ten
drops? Be careful how you put that knife
through those delicate portions of the
body, for if it swing out of the way the
sixth part of an inch the patient perishes.
Under such circumstances a physioian
needs not so much consultation with
men of his own calling as he needs con-
sultation with that God who strung the
nerves and built the cells and swung.
the crimson tide through the arteries.
You wonder why the heart throbs—why
it seems to open and shut. There is no
wonder about it. It is God's hand shut-
ting, opening, shutting, opening, on
every heart. When a man comes to destor
the eye, he ought to be in communica-
tion with him who said to the blind,
"Receive thy sight." When a dootor
comes to treat a paralytic arm, he ought
to be in communication with him who
said, "Stretoh forth thy hand, and be
stretched it forth." When a lean comes
to doctor a bad case of hemorrhage, he
needs to be in communitation with i;'.m
who cured the issue of blood, saying,
"Thy faith hath saved thee."
I do not mean to say that piety will
make up for medical skill. A bungling
doctor, confounded with what was not a
very bad case, went into the next room.
to pray. A skilled physician was called
in. He asked for the first .practitioner.
"Oh," they said, "he's in the next room
praying.'' "Well," said the skilled doo-
tor, "tell birn to come out here and help.
He can pray, and work at the same time.''
It was all in that sentencer '.Do the best
we can and ask God to help ns. There
are no two men in all the world, it seems
to me, that so much need the grace of
God as the minister who doctors the sick
soul and the physician who . prescribes
for the diseased body.
Christian Usefulness.
Another reason why the medical pro-
fession ought to bo Christians is because
-there opens before them such a grand
field for Christian usefulness.. You see so
many people in pain, in trouble. in
bereavement. You -ought to be the v he
of heaven to their souls. Old Dr. Gash •ria
De Witt, .a practitioner of New Yu;; ,
told me in his last days, "I •always pre-
sent the rellgiou of Christ to my pa-
tients, either directly or indirectly, and 1
find it is almost always acceptable." Drs.
Abercrombie : and Brown of Scotland,
Drs. Hey and Fothergill of England, anJ
Dr,. Rush of our own oountry, were cele-
brated for their faithfulness 'in that direc-
tion. "Oil, ": say the medical profession,
"that is your oeoupation; that belongs to
the clergy, not to us." My brother there
are severe illnesses in whioh you will •not.
admit even the clergy, and that patient's
salvation will depend upon your faith-
fulness. With the medicine for the body
in one band and the medicine for the soul
in the other, oh, what a ohanoe1 There
lies a dying Christian on the pillow. You
need to hold over him the lantern of the
gospel until its light streams across the
pathway of the departing pilgrim, and.
. you need to cry into the dull ear of
death, "Hark to the song of heaven's
welcome that comes stealing over the
waters." There lies on the pillow a dying
sinner, All the morphine that you
brought with you cannot quiet him.
Terror in the face. 'Terror in the heart.
How he jerks himself up on one elbow
and looks wildly into your face and says:
"Doctor, I can't die. I ani not ready to
die. What makes it so dark? Doctor,
can you pray?" Blessed for you and
blessed for him if then you oar kneel
down and say: "0 God, I have done the
best I could to cure this man's body and
I have failed! Now I commit to thee his
poor, suffering and affrighted soul. Open
paradise to his departing spirit."
But I must close, for there may be
suffering men and women waiting in
your office, or on the hot pillow,, wonder-
ing why you don't come. But before you
go, 0 doctors, hear my prayer for your
eternal salvation. Blessed will be the
reward in heaven fat the faithful' over-
work, or from bending over a patient
and catching his contagious breath, the
doctor comes home and he lies down
faint and siok. He is too weary to feel
his own pulse or take the diagnosis. of
his own complaint. He is worn out, The
fact is his work on earth is ended. Tell
those people in the office there they need
not wait any longer; the doctor will
never go there again. He has written his
last prescription for the alleviation of
human pain. The people will run up his
front steps and inquire, "How is the
doctor to -day?" All the sympathies of
the neighborhood will be aroused, and
there will be many prayers that he who
has been so kind to the sink may be com-
forted in his last pang. It is all over
now. In two or three days, his conval-
escent patients, with shawls wrapped
around them, will cornu to the front win-
dow and look out at the passing 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 l" But on the other side of the
river of death some of his old patients,
who are forever oured, will come out to
welcome him, and the Physician of hea-
ven, with looks as white as snow, accord-
ing .to the apocalyptic vision, will eolue
out and say: "Colne in, come in. I was
sick and ye visited met"
Roofs on American Buildings.
We aro all affected in different ways
by color and form, harmony and discord,
the beautiful and the ugly. Experiments
have preyed that certain colors have the
power to induce a temporary insanity,
from whioh relief is only obtained by the
use of another color—as, an instance,
green, the most reposeful of all the oolors
in- nature. Discord in music excites
irritability. Bad proportions in architec-
ture depress the spirits, although no
scientific experiments have been made to
prove the fact, none, perhaps, being
thought necessary, for a depression of
spirits has assailed us all of late in look-
ing at certain new buildings recently
erected among us.
Each of these has its distinct virtues
and faults, but there is one fault none
of them miss—the fault of a bad roof
and hideous sky lines. From the park
you get a glimpse of an imposing site—of
a costly structure that might be a source
of inspiration. But a great white pile is
surmounted by a red roof, , and that,
again, is topped by a white dome. One
is distracted, depressed and disappointed
beyond words. A gray stone armory on
another fine site has a roof that is like a
silly impertinence. 'A new mausoleum,
placed as no other building among us
has ever been placed, has sins in the way
of sky lines that are not to be described.
None of these roofs suggest anything
in the way of utility, and as part of a
decorative whole they are failures. Is it,
as we wondered at that dinner the other
night, that our climate and our social
conditions have never made it necessary
for us to use the tops of our houses ex-
cept as storerooms and garrets, and that
therefore the art ,of architecture, which
is an adaptation of the ideal to the pew -
tial, when confronted by a roof must
fail? For wo do not, like the Moham-
medan,use our roofs for our daily prayers
or our nightly recreation, nor yet, again,
is it necessary for us to retire to one for
observation of our enertlies.
'Utility has therefore not helped us with
a suggestion, nor yet has national custom
or the exigencies of a torrid zone given
us a hint. We are, in fact, in a difficult
place, one in which only the genius of
some young architect oar save us from
monstrosity,and that genius is one whioh
will make of roofs a special study.—
Harper's Bazar.
Snow the. "Small Graces" of Life.
Young men should not get the idea
that to know the "small graces of life"
is useless or,frivulous. What we call the
"sooial araoes" are very valuable to a
young man. That is the great trouble
with the young fellows who are earnest:
they are too earnest, and upon all. occa-
sions. They can have a high aim in life,
a lofty ,purpose, and vet not close them-
selves up to all social pleasures or amen-
ities. Girls feel uncomfortable, and
pardonably so, when they goto a con-
cert or any other form of entertainment.
with a young: man who constantly
makes mistakes in little things. The
small rules and laws whioh must be
observed on all social occasions ; are not
to be frowned down; they are important,
and a young fellow makes a great mis-
take when he considers them beneath
lain or unworthy of his attention.—
Edward W. Bok, : in Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Speed of Beasts.
For a short distance, a lion or a tiger
can outrun a man, and can equal the
speed of a fast horse, but they lose their
wind at the end of half a mile at the
most. They have little endurance, and
.
i are remarkably weak in lung -power.
Their strength is the kind which is cap=
ahle of a terrific effort for a short time
only. '
A a�
c1'ER'S STORY.
EXPOSURE BROUGHT ON AN AT.
TACK OF RHEU11LATISli.
Nervousness and Stomach Troubles esol-
1owed--Sleep at Times Was Impossible
--Health Again Restored.
From the. Amherst, N.S., Sentinel.
The little village of Petitcodiac 3a
situated in the south-easterly part of New
Brunswick, on the line of the Inter -
colonial Railway, Mr. Herbert. Yeomans,
who resides there, follows the occupation
of a hunter and trapper. His occupation
requires hem to endure a great deal of
exposure and hardi:tip, more especially
when the snow lies thick and deep on
the ground in our cola winters. A few
years ago Mr. Yeomaus tells our comes
pondent that he was seized with a sever+
bilious attack and a complication of
diseases, such as sour stomaoh, sic
headaohe and rheumatism. hir. Yeoman's
version of the facts are: "I became vea
ill and suffered the most excruciating
pains in my arms, legs and shoulders,
so much so that I could not rest in any
position. .I frequently could not sleep
nights, and when I did I awoke with a
tired feeling and very much depressed.
My appetite was very poor, and if I ate
anything at all, no matter how light the
food was, it gave me a dull, heavy feel-
ing in my stomach, whioh would be
followed by vomiting. I suffered so
!mensel vitro pains in my arms and
shoulders that I could scarcely raise my
hands' to my bead. I tried different
remedies, but all to no purpose. A neigh-
bor came in one evening and asked
'have you tried Dr, Williams' Pink
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to try them, and procured a box, and
before the pills were all gone, I began to
improve. This encouraged me to pur-
chase more and in a few weeks the pains
in my shoulders and arms were all gone
and I was able to got a good night's
rest, My appetite came back and the
dull, listless feeling left me. I oould eat
a hearty meal and have no bad after
effects and I felt strong and well enough
as though I had taken a new lease of
life. My old occupation became a
pleasure to me and I think nothing of
tramping eighteen or twenty miles a
day. I know from experience and I fully
appreciate the wonderful results of Dr.
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are and I would urge all those afflicted
with rheumatism or any other ailment,
to try Pink Pills as they create new
vigor, build up the shattered nervous
system and make a. new being of you.
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Prinoo of Wales in America..
Stephen Fiske.in recalling "When the
Prince of Wales was in America," writes
in the Ladies' Home Journal that on
September 17, 1860, he "entered the
United States for the first time, riding
to the American side for a farewell view
of Niagara. Then, after the usual
ceremonies at Hamilton, the Prince
crossed to Detroit, on September 2,0, and
became the guest of the people of this
Republic. Tho Duke of Newcastle bad
insisted that the Prince, as Baron Ren-
frew, should be received by the people,
not officially by the Government, and
this arrangement was carried out during
his tour It seemed as if all the people,
headed by the Governor of Michigan,
bad rushed to welcome him at Detroit.
The crowds were so dense that the
Royal party could not get to their hotel
through the main streets. There wras a
similar crowd at Chicago, which was
reached two days later. St. Louis, where
the Prince had a splendid reception on
the Fair Grounds and opened the West, -
ern Academy of Arts, and Cinoinnati
where another tremendous crowd
awaited him, and he danced all night at
another ball, made the Prince glad to
get to the comparative quiet of Wash-
ington, where he was introduced by
Lord Lyons to President Buchanan and
Miss Harriet Lane, and was elegantly,
but privately, entertained at the White
House." Subsequently he visited Rich
mond, Philadelphia, New York, Boston,
and some other Eastern cities, in nearly
all of which he was sumtuously enter-
tained, and was the guest of honor at
receptions, balls, dinners, etc. On
October 20 the Prince re -embarked from
Portland, Maine, for England. Owing to
a severe storm his ship, "Hero," had
been driven out of her course, was
several days overdue, and her officers.
and crew were reduced to scant .salt fare.
England was greatly alarmed for the
safety of the young Prince, and rejoiced
when the "Hero" finally landed him
safe on his native shore.
Tit for Tat.
A. British sailor being a witness in a
murder case, was called to the stand,
and was asked by the counsel for the
crown whether he was for the plaintiff
or defendant.
"Plaintiff or defendant?" said the.
sailor, scratching his head. "Why, I
don't knowwhat you mean by plaintiff
or defendant. I come to speak for me
friend," pointing to the prisoner.
"You're a pretty fellow for a witness,"
said the counsel, "not to know'wbat
plaintiff or defendant means."
Later in the trial : the counsel asked
the sailor what part of the ship he was
in at the time of the mueder..
"Abaft the binnacle, me lord," said
the sailor.
"Abaft the binnacle?" replied the
barrister. +e f What ' part ' of the ship , le
that?"'
"Ain't you a pretty faller for a coun.
senor," said the sailor, grinning at the
counsel, "not, to know what abaft the.
binnacle is 1"
The court' laughed.
WHEN DEATHS OCCUR.
The Time of Day When Bost t'eople Pala,
From Earth.
A very general opinion is entertained
by medical practitioners and others ene
gaged in .caring for the sick that the
gteatest number of deaths occurring in
'individuals afflicted with disease takes
puce duriug•the hours immediately suc-
ceeding midnight and preceding dawn.
The rule is said to be particularly true in
those suffering in chronio exhausting die -
eases, and deductions have been made
from t:lose impressions which have ser-
ved to regulate the administration of..
stimulants in suoh cases, it being said,
"if six ounces of brandy be n4aded in
twenty-four hours, four should' be ad-
ministered from two to six a. nt,, for
then is s itality in the bunion being at
its lowest,' and "snore deaths coeur at
these hours than at any other period."
"I accepted this teaching at college,"
says a medical man, "because I had
neither the means nor the time to verify
or disprove it to my own satisfaction.
Yet I always doubted the correctness of
the conclusions drawn, and, to settle the
doubts in my mind, since entering on
xny duties at the hospital 1 haver:ullected
statistics. which I find clo not agree with
this generally accepted idea. The figures
show twenty-seven fewer cases during the
hours from six p. m. to six a. m, than
for corresponding twelve hours of the
day. Again, from two to six p. m, there
were sixty-six more deaths than from
two to six a. m. The total number of
deaths in the list of acute diseases for
the twelve hours frons, six p. m. to six
a, en. is 160 less than for the correspond-
ing period during the day.
"'fhb hours from two to six a, m. in
this list show fifty-three cases more than
for the corresponding period in the after-
noon, This in nearly 4,000 oases is very
slight. In the chronic oases the greatest
number of deaths at any one hour was
at four p. m., with two and five p. m.
and six a. m. closely following. The
greatest in the aoute list was at three a.
m., with eleven a. m. and p. m. closely
following.
"The lowest number in the acute list
was at twelve, midnight, that hour so
dreaded in the sick room by attendants,
and to which a good deal of superstition.
attaches. It is noticeable that the num-
ber for this hour is oxceeodinglr low—
about half of the average number. In
the chronic cases the lowest number ap-
pears at nine a. M.
"From these 15,000 cases, extending
over a period of twelve years; -it would
appear that death occurs seemingly with-
out any particular predilection for any
certain hour, and that the number of
deaths for each hour is very evenly pro-
portioned, considering rhe large number
of oases taken and the time covered."
Not That Kind.
Amiable Old Gentleman—Ah I . What a
sweet little girl. And what a pretty dress
she has! Will the little pet tell me her
name?
The Little Pet—Arfer Fwederiok Web..
moon.
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