Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1917, Page 7

SURGERY AN ANCIENT Surgery was already an art when medicine was only a phase of super- stition, the earliest record of surgery having been found among the Egyp- tians In a period about 3000 B.C, In European” museums are instruments, lancets, tweezers, iron rods for cauter- ization and other things used by Egyp- tian practitioners. Jewish and Greek surgery immedi- ately followed that of the Egyptians, and surgery was held in high esteem among the Indians at a remote age, as proved by their ancient proverb, “A physician who Is no surgeon is like a bird with but one wing.” Instruments now on exhibition at Madras, Calcutta and Alexandria afford evidence of their skill. In Greece surgery had attained high proficiency long before the day of Hip- pocrates, and in one of his works is found a complete treatise on the physi- cian’s operating room, surgical instru- ments and appliance together with instruction in the correct use; on the proper posing of the pa- tient, and the use of water and band- ages. ‘Then follows a description of vatious wounds, from which it would appear that hemorrhages were arrest- ed then, as now, with cold compress or styptics, while wounds were healed by primary union or suppuration. Lesion of the joints, injuries to the e*pine and various kinds of dislocations wre dealt with. Hippocrate surgery treats instructively on fractures and contusions of the skull. For fractures the standard operation was trephin- ing, which, in the view of the writer, shoull be performed as speedily as possible. . With the development of Roman sur- gery from the time of the variety of instruments used increased to the number of 300. Among examples of these now in the museums of Rome and Naples are needles, hollow probes, pincers, cauteries, bistouris, ly ets and scissors. For almost a thousand years the treatment of wounds, frac- tures and dislocations varied by blood- letting, remained unchanged. Under the Byzantines, medical serv- ice, including y appliance for the treatment of disease and wounds, was well organized, cavalry and infantry alike being supplied with a company of surgeons and assistants whose duty it was to bring the wounded out of action. Strangely enough, surgery, suffering from the general superstitious horror VENTILATION By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON, Commissioner of Health of Pennsyl- vania. The question of proper ventilation during the winter months is one which it is quite difficult for many people to solve. It is apparent to almost every- body that the ad- mission of pure air is necessary if efficient work is to be performed in office and school and if re- refreshing sleep is desired by night. The fresh air does not de- temperature and can yalen, the pend be supplied by a proper heating and ventilating system. “pon The opening of windows while it admits the fresh air, often causes drafts which are uncomfortable, not to say injurious. Where a number of people are occupied in a room it is often a cause of subjecting one or two to exposure if the windows are opened to secure ventilation. This can be avoided by an ample supply of warm- ed air. Numerous deyices, more or less ex- pensive, have been placed on the mar- ket but are not always s«tisfactory. ‘The most economical and at the same time probably the most efficient ven- tilating device is one made of glass or wood eight or ten inches in height and made the width of the sash. This should be placed under the sash with a slant from the bottom to the top at an angle of 45 degrees, leaving an opening at the top covered with cheese cloth. Ventilators of this sort are so sim- ple that they can be made at small cost anywhere and the covering can be readily replaced. They are suitable for office and school room, Uving rooms and bed rooms. They permit reasonable ventilation without too great a loss-of heat and prevent thet stuffiness of atmosphere which is dan- gerous to health and destructive to real comfort during the winter months. This device leaves an opening between the upper and lower sash through which the used air of the room may escape. Ancient Shrine Is Found. One of the most important archeo- logical discoveries of recent years has just been made at Gonnoi, near the vale of Tempe in Thessaly, The archeological society has just un- earthed what is plainly a sanctuary to the Goddess Artemis and among the articles found on the spot are some of the most remarkable votive offerings yer discovered. One hunéred and thirty-eight mar- ble shafts bear inscriptions, from which it is plain that the shrine was devoted to Artemis as a goddess of childbirth. “Artem: genitrix.” fs : method of |% CRAFT of the knife, save in conflict, which pervaded the early people of all lands, continued for many centuries to be despised by physicians, professional standing being denied to the men who healed wounds and set fractured limbs. It was not until the sixteenth cen- tury that surgery shared in the ad- vance common to every art and science, its practitioners correspond- ingly improving their social and pro- fessional position. In this reform the day was led by Paris, with her Col- lege of Surgeons, founded in 1279. Berlin and Rome followed her example 400 years later. | In the eighteenth century London, Edinburgh and Dublin were added to the various centers of surgical learn- ing, while America, Jer of all other countries in these d . laid the foun- dation of her proficiency in the school established by Doctor Shippen at Phil- adelphia. Mothers’ Cook Book aes Just being happy is a fine thing to Looking on the bright side Rather than the blue Sad or sunny musing Is largely in the choosing, And just being happy Is brave work and true. Good Family Dishes. Corn meal, if well cooked, makes one of the most nutritious and econo- | mical of breakfast dishes and if served with a good baked apple it Is a break- fast sufficiently nutritious for a grow- ing child. When cooking corn meal mix it with cold water to the consis- tency of pouring, then pour into a ket- Ue of boiling salted water, enough tu cook at least three hours at the sim- mering point. See that the meal rap- idly boils, then set back to simmer. When cooked with plenty of water each grain of corn meal will stand out by itself just as does rice when weil cooked. A fireless cooker is an ideal place for this kind of cooking, yet the | evaporation of water Is limited so that | must be | lessened, Corn Gems. Beat the yolks of two eggs and add a cupful of milk, a half teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of melted but- ter and a cupful of corn meal. Beat the mixture well, then add a half cup- ful of flour with a teaspoonful of bak- ing powder. Fold in the well beaten whites of the eggs and bake for 20 minutes in a hot oven, using 12 gem | pans. Cocoanut Egg Curry. i} Put two tablespoonfuls of olive oll or butter into a saucepan; when hot, add four tablespoonfuls of chopped onion, stir until the onion is soft, add a teaspoonful of curry powder, the same amount of chopped red pepper and a chopped or finely grated cocoa- nut. Add a cupful of the cécoanut milk and cook slowly one hour. Dish and serve with poached eggs. Boiled rice, baked apples, stewed rhubarb or chutngy go well with this dish. Codfish Croquets. One cupful of raw salt fish, two and a quarter cupfuls of potato cubes, one egg, one tablespoonful of butter wad salt and pepper to season. Put the potatoes and fish into a saucepan and cover with boiling water, cook until the potatoes are tender, drain and mush, add the seasonings, salt, pepper, eggs, and butter and beat until light, drop by spoonfuls into hot fat. ere, Mare wei THE CASPER DAILY TRIBINE SOME SMILES In Doubt. “Do your views on public questions meet with your wife's favor?” “I've never been able to find out,” answered Mr. Twobble. “Whenever I voice an opinion my wife merely hums a little tune. I don’t know whether she does that to express disapproval, or merely to show that she isn’t listen- ing and doesn't intend <0.” Not Worth Mentioning. “Tommy, you've been fighting | again,” “I'd hardly call it that, ma.” “But I saw you terough the wihu- dow. You struck that little Glithers n’ knocked ‘im out the first lick. It takes two scrappers to make a fight, | ma.” Tough Luck. “Hiram Shuck says a chap tr to sell him a sky- craper while he was up to the city last wee! “Did Hiram fall fur that?” “Nope. But he fell in a coal hole while he was look- the durned thing over.” in’ Always in Same Place. “Conductor,” said the fussy old lady, “are you sure this train will take me to Bunksvill “I'm reasonably certain that it will, madam. I've been traveling this route for twenty rs, and to the best of my knowl Bunksville never eluded dg us yet.” has A Vicious Jab. “T understand Miss ing of getting married. “That has the understanding hereabouts for the past fifteen years,” answered the town gossip. paf is think- been Progress. out, old yep. I wuz in quad up to a week ago.” “How much was yer bit?” “I did five years an’ learned a new trade.” “Goin" form, eh?" “Naw, I'm goin’ ter quit second- story work an’ be a counterfeiter.” ter re- Eternal Rest. “Youngeby seems to be an indolent fellow.” “So he is. I suspect Loungeby's idea of heaven is a vast hotel lobby filled with big leather chairs, where a person can loaf forever without having the house detective sneaking about and casting suspicious looks at him.” Speaking Roughly. The Subaltern—Let me my fiancee, old man. His Friend—Best congratulations! The Subaltern—I've known her since she was in pinafores. His Friend (trying to say the right thing)—So you can be sure you are not buying a pig in a poke!—London Opinion. introduce Dinosaur of Ancient Days Mere Pygmy by Side of the Blue Whale of Modern Times It has been said that the first duty of a whale is to be large—the blue whale is, then, the most successful whale, for it is the largest creature which has ever existed on the earth or in its waters. Even those extinct giant reptiles, the dinosaurs, which splashed along the borders of the inland seas-of Wyoming and Montana 3,000,000 years ago, could not approach a blue whale either in length or weight, declares a writer in the New York Independent. In 1903 a blue whale was weighed in sections in Newfoundland. The ani- mal was 78 feet long, 35 feet around the shoulders, the head was 19 feet in length and the ta'l six feet from tip to tip. The total weight was 63 tons. The flesh weighed 40 tons, the blubber eight tons, the blood, viscera and baleen seven tons and the bones eight tons, Exaggerated accounts of the size of blue whales are current even in repu- table books on natural history, but the largest specimen which has yet been actually measured and recorded is 187 feet long, stranded a few years ago upon the coast of New Zealand; it must have weighed at least 75 tons. The Deepest Well. A well in Pennsylvania that already has been bored to a depth of more than 7,000 feet may become the deepest in the world, Germany now holding the record with one 7,350 feet deep. An Emperor’s Opal. Among the many fine geius that the new Austrian emperor has inherited from the dead Franz Josef is an opa! which weighs 17 ounces und is esti mated to be worth about 3600.00, Hot Air Bath in Bed. An apparatus In which one can take a “hot air bath” in one’s own bed ts the invention of William F. Erath of Rosebank, N. Y. It is of semicylindrical shape and consists ef half hoops con- nected by lazy-tong members by means of which the apparatus can be col- Japsed when not in use. This frame Is covered with blankets or comfortables packed closely around it to form an ex- temporaneous chamber for the occu- pant. A suitable heater or alcohol burner heats the air in a metal drum, which is connected by a pipe with an opening in the end of the bathing chamber. An- other opening above it is for the dis- position of the used-up air. A rod with a handle at its end, supported on a bracket, extends from the heater along the side of the bed to a point within convenient reach of, the person enjoying the apparatus. By this means the heat supply can be controlled mere- ly by reaching out an arm. Wise and Otherwise. Alas, for the luss who is afflicted with lassitude! There are sermons in stones—also ice cream in bricks, Everybody knows how everybody else ought to do things. A man Isn't necessarily two-faced because he has a double chin. When a woman hasn't apy more to say she Is willing to let a man talk, Don't follow in the footsteps of com- petitors; set the pace. ° A wonup's tongue is often responsi- ble for her shortness of breath, ye men get rich while others nre for higger opportunities, If there Is any question, nine timer out of a possible ten it's goml pohe tat Ten IN A WOMEN’S MEDICAL COLLEGE CLINIC the clinic of the institution, part of any of the audience, ~—_—ee Women students of the Women's Medical college of Pennsylvania witnessing an of ration by women su Everyone in this operating room is a woman and there is no suggestion of faintness on the SERBIANS MOURNING AT GRAVE OF A COMRADE Two Serbians, members of the army that is fighting to regain their country, wourning at the grave o7 a com rade killed in battle. MRS. SKEFFINGTON AND SON Mrs. F. Sheehy Skeflington, widow of the Irish editor who was shot without trial by the British military officials during the recent Sinn Fein rebellion in Ireland, and her seven-year-old son, Owen, photogrgphed in New York. Mrs. Skeflington says she has come to America to tell of her husband's “murder.” Blotter Shortage Imminent. Insurance companies find it neces- sary to retrench on their supplies of various kinds, owing to the Increased cost of paper stock. In most cases prices have doubled. Companies are cautioning economy and saving in every possible way so far as literature is con- cerned. Many companies that have been liberal with blotters and calendars are cutting down their supply materially. Some companies are not getting out any calendars this year, others “ure re- ducing their nsual number and some have discontinued getting out large blotters which now cost about 10 cents apiece. Where agents are found to be nonproductive their supply of calen- dars and blotters is being decreased materially. Paper is such an item to- day that economy in its use is neces- sary.—Western Underwriter, Impersonation Gone Wrong. “Did you put on false whiskers and bring the children’s toys in a bag swung over your shoulders?” “Yes,” replied Mr. Growcher. “And as usual, 1 spoiled everything. Some of the safety pins in my disguise worked loose and now the children are in tears over the discovery that Santa Claus is a profane person.” eas 3 ax WAITING FOR HIS DEAD MASTER British offieal photograph showing a pathetic scene on the La Bassee front. A handsome horse, the mount of a British officer, is standing at the edge of u dugout, ‘where the British officer has gone, never to return. AD unfamiliar band will fead him away from the scene of his master’s death. FRENCH HOSPITAL IN THE BALKANS A French hospital in the side of » bill under shell tire in Ue Balkuns. che large pisce of timber over the entrance gives a certain amount of security. Owing to the limited room inside some of the patients have to walt outside. ran 2 ij vats