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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1900, ADVERTISEMENTS. - Sleep for Skin-Tortured Babies And a single anointing with CUTICURA, purest of emollients and greatest of skin cures. This is the purest, sweetest, most speedy, per- manent, and economical treatment for torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, and pimply skin and scalp humors with loss of hair, of infants and children, and is sure to succeed when all other remedies fail. Women purifyin Mi_lliqnsunf a 4 dandr hing red, rough mmations, n es for nle = es of 0 hav scalp o d bea all ¢ L o purposes of th vi 1o , TWENTY. BEST baby soap ar at Oxe Price oap E 1d bea and cha ) rative weaknes: suggest pro asing ing licated or toilet soap ever compon ¢ soap, however e Cuticura Soap tifying the skin, for cleansing the the stopping of falling hair, for soften~ and sore hands, in the form of baths for toosfree or offensive per d for many sanative ves to women, and especially ,and nursery. No amount of 1ee used it to use any other, especially for , and hair of infants and children. Curr- from COTICURA, the great st refresh Us 1 th toilet, bat P, ng of flower to be compared with p, hair, and hands. No s to be fompared with it Thus it OxNE Cexrs, the BEST skin and complexion soap, in the world. and nursery. combi utiCIil'a Complete External and Internal Treatment for Every Humor, ( The Set, $1.25 ebrgpea - LVENT ( ) A.do:(r’;}lg‘x‘m:fi D. 430 C. Cor., Soie P AMUSEMENTS. GRAN Waiter Morosco. OPERA HOUSE M INEE TO-MORROW. WLEY FRA oAy LAST THREE NIGHTS “THE RED LAMP.’ z M THE NEW | HIGH- | GRADE VAUDE- VILLE! 10c; Opera saturday and Sund TEATREY THR NIGHTS MATINEE TO-MORROW. FLORENCE ROBERTS, WHITE WHITTLESEY. C TREES rted b Next sWeek, GIRL.” Request— ‘THE COUNTRY SEATS NOW READY. FISCfiR'S CONCERT HOUSE. Admission 10c. DEF TS AND DON: MAE TUNISON: JEAN- “W1E, Comedicnne: AGNES FRIED, % ; LITTLE ALMA WUTHRICH, | €M, - and Dancer: Reappearance of MR, EDWARD B. ADAMS; and New Moving Pic. tures. Matinee Sunday. Reserved Seats. 2o Sole Lessee and Manager r,” fre | AMUSEMENTS. *TIVOLI+ CUR TO-NIGHT AIN RISE § SHARP!! AND EATURDAY EVENING, | Lichter, MATINEE ROW Repetto, Russ | i 23 Next Week—"OTHELI AND BUNDAY A GOLETTO." ~ Ferr POPULAR COLUMBIA 2 LEADING THEATER All This Weck—Matinee Saturday, Charles Frohman Presents 'HENRY MILLER A SPECIAL COMPANY "BROTHER OFFICERS.” BU SUNDAY NIGHT, | RTON HOLME. LECTURES. | | |— Subject—""ROUND ABOUT PARIS.” HEARTSEASE » HENRY MIL RIC TEMPLE. ats Ready. 7 72 ONLY THREE MORE PERFORMANCES OF “sY THE SAD SEA WAVES.” And Then Commencing Sunday Night, THE LAST WEEK OF DUNNE & RYLEY'S | ALL STAR CAST IN MATHEWS & BULGER'S LATEST SUCCESS, “THE NiGHT OF THc FOURT ” 1l Performance Sunday Night, Augy g o URUSH CITY. Erb August “THE BROWNIES' ARE COMING. WAT % FOR THEM e SUTRO BATHS OPEN NIGHTS. Open datly from 7 a. m. to 1 Bathing from 7 a. m. to 10 p. ADMISSION, 10c. CHILDREN, fe. Bathing, including admission 2ic. Children 200, CALIFORNIANS’ ENTHUSIASM Electric Display at the Native Sons’ Headquarters at the Mason Street Building. HE executive council of the Ancient Order of Foresters has authorized High Chief Ranger Boehm to ar- range for two floats to be in the Ad- mission day parade. These are to fllus- trate the principles of the order. The or- der will also have four carriages in line. The Odd Fellows’ building will be tastefully decorated during the celebra- tion by the order. The decoration committee accepted a plan yesterday for the decoration of the ative Sons’ building on Mason street. here will be electrical features in four colors—red, white, blue and yellow—the { colors of the celebration. Roos Bros. announce that they will dec- | orate their place of business and will also ave a grand electrical dhlelay. Majc of Santa Rosa vis- day. He gave as- spiay by the par- i f Sonoma County. The parlors will | be accompanied in th> parade by a car- riage in which wil ride, as honored | guests, two survivors of the original Don- ner party. letter was sent yesterday to the Oak- la City Council réquesting co-operation by that body. It was suggested that Oak- the principal city of Alameda hould contribute to the parade becial feature independent of the which has been asked of the Board of Supervisor | Grand Marshal Costello received a let- ter vesterday from Willlam T. Jeter, | grand chancellor of the Grand Lodge of California, Knights of Pythias. Assurance was given that the Pythian Order.would assist in every way possible to render the | ion a success. Chancellor Jeter ciaHy requested every lodge in the order to participate. Paul Antoine, the Consul for France in ty, in a letter to the grand marshal that the French colony would par- e through the committee which had cent French national cel- The committee has promised an wational float, on the prepara- feh it is proposed to expend up- rd of $1000. - he handsome poster has been litho- phed ‘in colors and is now ready for bution. During the next few day of the poster will be furnished ~city and town in the State. Local lastern railroads have volunteered to of distribution of these nd within a week or ten daye one copies of the committee at- announcement will be posted in prominent depot in the United The agencies of Eastern railroad companies show much interest in the cele- bration‘and the committee is encouraged {o believe that many Eastern tourists will be presen Angelita Parlor of Native Daughters, lo- hora. tion of w w re tractiv ery FOR TH B e e = R S S o | first Native Daughter born of white per- ents. PAGE FROM VETERANS REPLY TO STANFORD PARLOR. L e o T e S O R S . 4 cated at Livermore, will have in line the| The Board of Fire Underwriters has set The lady thus distinguished is Mrs. | | Inmann. She is a member of Anzelha! Parlor. The 'parlors | maintain joint | pate in the para :lurs are to be of’ Sonoma ead. County will arters and partici- as a body. The par- ompanied by a band | made up of picked musicians from vari- | | ous portions of the county. The place of }lmnnr in_the d to Bear Flag Parlor of Petaluma on ac- count of the historic name of sthe parlor | | and for the additional reason that Petalu. | the county. | | ma is the oldest city in | With Bear Flag Parlor will march one or ]morp members of the original Bear Flag party. sjon has been assigned | E ADMISSION DAY FETE e e e e e e T S e o S S o o DO EB ere i eieH ebH oD aside its rooms as a headquarters for vis- iting insurance men during the entire pe riod of the celebration. The conference committee of tribes of Red Men held an enthu the details of the parade. The c was addressed by Grand Marshal Costello, W. M. Wilkins and another m parade committee. It was decided to in vite the tribes of Oakland. Alameda, Elm- hurst, Crockett and Vallejo and the coun- cils of the degree of Pocahontas to take part. Stockton Parlor will come to this city of a steamer, which will be tied up at one of the wharves, and during the parade w lor's members. DISCORD ARISES AMONG ITALINS Local Colony Splits on Use of Name on Dispatch to Rore. | \ | 1 Petitions for Counter Meeting—At- tempted Boycott of Paper That Denounced Actions of King Humbert. —_— From the death of the murdered King | Humbert of Italy discord has risen to vex the Italian colony of San Francisco. ready circulars are being distributed in | the Latin quarter calling for a mfeeting | to protest against the use of the collec- | tive name of the Italian colony in a dis- atch sent to Rome, which use was au- thorized at the meeting held in ribaldi Hall Wednesday night. The colon is pr cally united in deploring the assas- fon of King Humbert. It is divided on make what some of the [talians call * the issue of taking the oc asion to | monarchical demonstration Only those who were action that was taken, it lined beforehand, were invited | meeting last Wednesday evening. It was of common knowledge in the Latin quar- ter that some opposition was to be ex- { pected if no restrictions should be placed |on the attendance. In faet, Voce del | Popolo, the daily evening Italian paper, | able to the to the published in this city, gave intimation of such opposition Monday evening. That | paper expressed regret at the assassina- I'tion of King Humbert, but also attacked | the memory of the dead monarch. | King Humbert,”” it said, “has violated the constitution. disregarding the Parlia- mentary votes and selecting his Ministers to suit himself. He trod upon public lib- . He was responsible for the disas- trous Aby: in_war. He used the army | to’ oppress the discontented people. who | suffered from the high price of bread, due | to the increased taxes on wheat. Hun- | dreds of people were killed all over Ttaly in 1898, of the number 200 being women. | Many were killed at Prato, the birthplace | of Pressi. The King was never a friend | of the people. Out of his income of $3.200,- | 800 per annum he did not distribute more than $270,000 per annum. He was repeat- | edly asked by Deputy Imbriani to come to the relief of the R&;‘W but he con- | {inued to get his 16.000.000 ' francs every vear. He withdrew 87,000,000 from the | berina Bank on the eve of its failure. The article, which was long, also con- tained the. phrase “our monarchistic fel- | low ecitizens of San Francisco,” and pyo- tested against makirl\g ‘a monarchical’ or ynas demonstration. d"‘l!‘l?llm;rncle was ‘vigorously discussed, One result was an_attempt to bovcott Voce del Popolo. Enemies of the paper | assert that 170 subscriptions were with- drawn. Carlo Pedretti, the editor, admits the attempt to boycott his paper, but says | he A escs were small, and that he | has gained more by the redction than he Toer, **Mr. Pedretti did not attend " the mecting Wednesday night. The question concerning the use of the name of the colony came up then. The president of | {the meeting, F. Cavagnaro, said that érge | Attendance was large and ‘representative | of the majority of the colony. He signe the dispatch that was formulated by a committee and it was then sent to Rome. T¥"a meeting shall be held counter to ! that of Wednesday night in any respect {%vill_not come off this week. Mean- while the terms “republican, mugarch- Jst, “socialist” and “anarchist” are heard throughout the Latin quarter. e —_— The Rev. Mr. Gibson to Preach. The Rev. J. George Gibson of Emmanu- Church will preach next Sun- ;‘-)'B e o “Sea of Glass.® A lensthy e sical service will be rendered in addi- | tion, Misses Grace Savage and Clara | Madden and Mrs. R. L. Hathorn being the soloiste. AMUSEMENTS. PP A A CHUTES AND Z00.57 Atsrren CANNON, THE FAT KA}#. LA LISTA FIRE DANCER. To-morrow Night—SAPHO afd CAKE-WALK. Commencing SUNDAY, FORREST SEABURY in His Sensational 100-ft. Dive. Order Eeats by Phone, Park 28 OVER DEADKING Al | having been out- | T a3 e e ] CELEBRATION FOUNDED ON PRETTY TALE UNIQUE celebration last- Ing three days has just been concluded in China- town. It was the festival of the Seven Sisters, and commenced Monday and ended yesterday. The celebra- tion, which was carried on princi- pally by the women and children, i an annual affair and is founded on an historic event of the second century. The festlval usually be- gins on the seventh day of the seventh moon. According to Chinese history there were seven fairies, one of whom was selected by the gods to vigit the earth. She was married to a poor shepherd, with whom she lived 100 days. At the end of that time the fairy was called back to heaven and soon after a son was born to her. On the seventh day she returned to earth to give the son to its father. The latter after- ward became prime minister of China and the son also grew up to be a great man. Since that day the anniversary of the fairy's coming has been sol- emnized by appropriate ceremonies by the women and children. It is a day of thanksgiving and general rejoicing. The women attire them- selves in fantastic garments,”and laden with fruits and flowers they visit one another, rehearsing the story of the falries and offering up prayers amd blessings. Some of the houses of the Chinese were brilliantly decorated. A glad wel- come greeted each woman as she went from house to house, and in some places elaborate spreads were given. There were also dis- plays of embroideries and fancy articles. The children were given games to amuse themselves. The new Kwan Tung Temple of the Sam Yup Company in China- town is to he dedicated with much pomp and ceremony early next month. The exact date will be fixed just as soon as the new pres- ident of the temple has been ap- pointed by the merchants, which must have the indorsement of the Chinese Minister and the local Consul. feftelefedoele o eofe bttt ook} ge - el oo e i ittt oo o bbbl e e el el el | | | | efosfrfocfeofeefentufonfotente e ofe o ofe sfeefeofmfonforiorirelonforts cfoefeofrefocfonioofrfoefociorfe ofe ofe ofe ofe fecfocfunfocfeofonforfocfonfortoconfocfunforfenfoforfeciete The new temple is one of the handsomest in the city and cost $20000. It is situated on Clay ofeofeofe ofe ol street and is built of brick. It is 40 by 70 feet in ground dimensions and one and a half stories high. The god of war is the principal image in the temple. The god stands about three feet high and is made of wood, elaborately gar- nished with gold. The god of war is the Chinaman’s favorite idol. @ivivivimioirlalodeiolede de defofofolduiulnind @ Grand Institute, ¥. M. I. The next grand session of the Young Men's Institute will open in San Rafael on the 20th inst. Following Is the pro- gramme: Angust 20—High mass at 10:30 a. Father M. D. Slattery, celebrant. " Father J. W. Suilivan of San Rafael will deliver the sermon. A reunion of the delegates and the members of their families in San Rafasl Park in the afternoon. Business session of the Grand Institute in the evening. August 21—Business session during the day. Evening reception to the grand officers and delegates by the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Soclet; August_29—Business session during the da: Grand invitation ball in the eyening. August 25—Business session during the day, when the affairs before the” Institute will be disposed of. Banquet in the evening. ———e. Paris Exposition Awards. The fine showing of American manu- factures at the Paris Exposition this year is likely to win a number of awards from the international juries selected to pass upon the exhibits. According to Section 83 of the general regulations governing the Exposition, the French Government wiil grant the following awards: First, the grand prix. sometimes called the diploma of honor, which is granted for exceptional merit only: second, gold medal; third, sil- ver medal; fourth, bronze medal; fifth, honorable mention. R g 3 | ex-volunteers are giv EX-VOLUNTEERS DENIED WORK AT TRANSPORT DOCK Often Risked Their Lives for Native Land, but Now Frozen Out. PR PSS Foreigners Given Employment While ‘Wearers of the Blue and Khaki Have Small Chance to Earn Wuges. Scores of honorably discharged United States Volunteers dally gather at the transport dock, seeking ordinary rough work as barrel rollers and truck wheel- ers, only to be turned away, while for- eigners—men who are not citizens of the United States—are given steady employ- ment. When there is a rush some of the n work. That is only a part of the freezing out process, however, for the occasions are o infre- | quent that a man cannot keep soul and l body together on the meager income thus received. After a little the ex-volunteer, thor- oughly discouraged, turns away. Others who have marched under the flag on for- eign soil take his place, only to be simi- larly disappointed and aggrieved. Occa- | sionally some high spirited ex-volunteer | protests. | e He is told that it is necessary to employ the foreigners steadily to re- tain their services. The work not being of the sort that requires much skill, this argument is received with incredulity. “They are just trying to freeze us out, for some mysterious reason, and that is all there is to it.”” This is the story com- mon to Uncle €am’s former soldier boys. Colonel Long is in charge of the trans- port service, hief clerk. When Colonel Long is ab- | sent Captain Batchelder has large pow- | ers. | duty of hiring men on the dock. % | a foreman who | | | ed. Captain Dunn Is entrusted with the He has pl('ks the men out. The ex-volunteers believe that Captain Dunn directs that few soldiers shall be employ- This suspicion may be unjust, the soldiers belleve they are justified in | entertaining it. There Is a possibility that the attention | of the Secretary of War will be called to the matter. A list of names of soldiers is in preparation, together with a state- | ment of the grievances they have in con- nection with the transport service. Fol- | lowing the filing of this list and complaint there may be an investigation. The facts are of common knowledge on the water front and are talked over daily by the ex- soldiers who are out of work and unable to secure employment. ANOTHZR TRIP TO LAKE TAHOE Third of the Popular Ten-Dollar Ex- cursions Next Saturday. The ten-dollar excursions to Lake Tahoe | given by the Southern Pacific last week and week before have been the means of attracting unusual numbers to that noted resort, and with the desire to favor as many as possible it has been decided to flve another next Saturday night, August , under the same conditions. It should be borne in mind that this rate is unprecedentedly low—it is even ab- surdly low, and does not pay the actual cost, and all things considered, it is an opportunity that few can afford to miss. 'ickets are on sale at the Southern cific city ticket office, 613 Market street. e Competent Physicist Wanted. The United States Civil Service Commis- sion announces that on August 21 and 22 an examination will be heid in this city and elsewhere for candidates for the posi- tion of physicist in the geological survey, at a salary of $1800 per annum. Applicants should, lrl‘)gl}' at once to the United States Civil Service Commission at Washington, D. C.. for application forms 304 and 37. Age limit 20 years and- over. — re————— Are You Registered? All citizens must register this vear, 1900, in order to be able to vote at general elec- tion, November 6, 1900. Registration closes September 26, 1000. . the lgpcal | idstic | meeting last night and arrdnged some of | mmittee | nber of the | 1 be used as headaquarters by the par- | Captain Batchelder is the | but | ADYANCE IN SURGERY IN 100 YEARS. Copyright, 1800, b y Seymour Eaton. — COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF TWO CENTURIES. —_— VIL In an attempt to trace the advance made in surgery through a period of 100 vears it will be assumed that the general reader is unfamiliar with the work al- veady accomplished at the beginning of the century, and therefore at the outset it will be necessary to review briefly the achievement religion than that of medicine, and as the priestly office exerted a dominant a ence the latter was permitted to take no steps for its advancement that had not the sanction of the prevailing religion. Hence the early progress of medicine w slow—slow up to the time of len—and then it stopped and stood still for twelve | centuries. Light, however, at 1 through the dense fog in the s century; a ceatury memorable for the lives of Copernicus and Vesalius. The former put the earth in motion and gave laws to the planets and overthrew the Ptolemaic philosophy that had oppressed the world for twenty centuries—the latter created a new world by revealing to man a knowledge of himself and thus broke the Galenic spell that had held unbroken sway for 1200 years. Vesalius in the year 1543, at the age of 25, brought out his work on human anatomy and thus laid the foundation for rational medicine and sur- gery. ora him we le that Galen's nearest approximation to a knowledge of human anatomy was through his dissec tion of apes. The works of Vesalius made available by the inventions of prix ing and engraving, soon became accessi- ble to students in all parts of the world and gave additional fame to the already renowned University of Padua, in whi Vesalius was a professor. It was her that William Harvey, a pupil of Fabri- cius, caught his inspiration for the study of the circulation of the blood, which finally resulted in a discovery that has been of incalculable benefit to man and has placed the name of Harvey among the immortals. And now an impetus was to be given to broke teenth looked-for quarter, for who would have | thought that the invention of gunpowder would be instrumental in bringing about one of the greatest advances in surgery? It occurred in the following manner: The | advantage of firearms over the earlier | modes of warfare was readily apparent, but the wounds produced by the balls were immeasurably more disastrous | than those from the sword.spear or arrow The natural inference was that the swell- ing and fatality due to bullet wounds | were owing to the lead, and to counteract this poison boiling oil was poured into and along the track of the wound. This Was no new treatment, for the efficienc of boiling ofl and the cautery in stanch- ing blood had long been the authorized practice. So well founded was this procedure that Ambrose Pare at the close of a day among the wounded in battle. his stock of oil had was obliged to dres out it, could not sleep fr and when on the foflowing day he founc that the wounds which had not been sub. jected to the boiling oil were looking bet- ter than those treated by the established plan his astonishment was very great. It was indeed fortunate that this exigency fell to the lot of so earnest, thoughtful and courageous a man, for it led to abandonment of the cautery in bleeding wounds and to the substitution therefor of the ligature. To those who have become accustomed to seeing a ligature applied to a bleeding artery this may not appeal as a notably courageous act, but when it is considered that he made the ventur alone and against the settled practice « | the profession, against it may be the posi- | tive protests of his prof: { and under the consciousness of the fact | that if the ligature failed to control the | hemorrhage and the patient's life was | lost_his own might pay the forfeit. hi | act becomes one of the most heroic of h | tory. Fortunate, indeed, that it succeed- ed, for had it failed relief from the tor- ture of the burning ofl might have been indefinitely postponed. Truly this formed finding that iled and that he me wounds with- m sheer anxiety, | an epoch in surgery. It gave to that | branch of the healing art an uplift that | placed it at on ond the aspirs of the igno ned for it th tering care of the reigning powers, and under the genius of Larrey soon carried operative surgery to the limits of human | | skill. The beginning of the present century found the surgeon in_possession of th. perfected t of arteries, imme | wounds by suture and careful dressing of the cut surfaces, chartered medical col- | leges, able corps iof professors, well- equipped hospitals, where the students of all fur- had every facility for the study branches of the healing art, Hbrari nished with the best medical th the ages, with periodicals from of the world and a course of study that | rivaled that of any of the learned profes sions; and were 1 called upon to repro- of duce the valedictory of a professor the surgery to his class at the close of last centur: following in his mouth: 1 | congratulate you that you are going forth into no new field of action. Surgery to- day rests upon well-tried and establizhed la its triumphs challenge the admira- “Gentlemen, I | whether the surgery of coming days will do more than repeat the surgery of the | present. Finer instruments will no doubt | B made, more ingenioug appliances. and | new operations devised but the science | and art of our noble profession in our | day will scarcely be eclipsed in the fu- ture progress of the world.” Would such | a speech seem preposterou Put these words to the test and examine them by | the light of the medical history of recent Wwars.. In the battles of Napoleon the same general appliances and rules of pro- cedure prevailed that were employed in the American revolution, and these were scarcely improved upon in the late war between the States. 1In every campaign mothers and sisters at home have picked fint, wound bandages and sent old, worn- | out handkerchiefs and garments r | dressings to the wounded. The surgeon | inder Grant and Lee amputated as the d1a under Napoleon and Washington — tied the arteries and brought the ligatures out of the wound, and in their reports stated the day when the ligatures came away. cing over the surgical progre: nfl;‘h:lcaer;llur'y if every modification or im provement in instrument, appliance, tech- nique, were to be mentioned it would re- Huire a library. Thousands of devices are Tow employed by the surgeon that con- Ihbute to the welfare of the afflicted whose inventors will never be remem- bered. i e memorable discoveries that have adq“al(lgpd"!‘surnpry during the century that 2 ‘anesthetics stands first without a i val. The necessary mitigation of the ago- nies of a surgical operation had been at- tained in a moderate degree by means of drugs, such as opium and alcoholic prep- arations, but no one ever imagined that it would be possible for a sufferer to be rendered insensible to pain by the inhala- tion ot vapor and to awaken therefrom as from a dream. Such a discotery in the middle of the present century soon spread Throughout the entire world and gave an jmpetus to surgery that was destined to result in its taking the highest laureis in the gift of man. Under the inspiration of the new discovery surgical teaching be- came not simply a possibility but a most attractive rea.lllfn Medical ~ colleges and hospitals multip] jed and it would be no exaggeration to say that more medical colleges have sprung up within the last fitty years in the United States than ex- isted prior to that date throughout the en- tire world. One of the notable effects of anesthetics i that it _completely relaxes the muscular system. Prior to their intro- Auetion the patient with a dislocated thigh Was first bled almost to fainting. then still further relaxed by emetics and finally subjected to the compound pulleys. Now the surgeon, with his patient relaxed by an anesthetic, accomplishes with unaided fanual skill in a few seconds that which often took hours to accomplish before its discovery. Anesthetics have removed hurry and precipitancy from surgical pro- cedure. Formerly it wds of the highest importance to the surgeon to minimize the moments of torture from the knife. Hence the bystander often took out his watch to count the seconds required in the removal of a limb. Anesthetics have 1 added to surgic of earlier times. No portion | of history is more closely identified with | the practice of surgery from a wholly un- | leaden | ssional brethren, | arniquet of Petit. the ligation | ate approximation of | 1 would put words like the | tion of the world, and it is questionable | -xplorations and « | tions a sense of dignity, composur cautiousness in procedure that was wholly unknown to surgeons of an earlier date A quarter of a century ago a distin- guished surgeon remarked to a bys | *w wo the su ns of a form | Beneration say if they could see the work | that we are now doing?’ 1 have often | thought of that remark. Would Larre wonder at the skill of his amputat Fergusson at this work upon the Hps a th or Ches n. at this collection of caleuli? No; but that which wouid surprised them would be that a could be thrown over the suff. | have | speil | and during | geon could a. Truly anesthetics must stand alone as a boon suffering humanity and in the hisiory will treasure 1 memorabl 1 us the o erately perform his work tury. Another matter worth operation and ke more T | ce | of rec it so for sisted In the extremit and_gradual enveloping it n elastic belt ¢ | tube was wound a he limb near | junction with the body, when the band: | was removed and limb bloodless. Such a help whe for a bullet « lle was po B nd ind | rendering ali iry parts luminous when sut This a first had greatly overestimat o human_body X-ra a in Its value, were it merely D bodies in the brain, eye and | elsewhere. would be incaleulable. Its pos | sibilities in throw ¥ nterna medicine the A quarter o | the illus | above k £ Hous si referred 1 on asked the ¢ to. and we t revisit he £ his ¥ rmer activities that whie nish him | most would be that imes u | surgery that represented life work {and which he beleved to immortal had within a few short years followed him to the grave. The works of - | lived their author for twelve | but of the standard works on that were up to date a quarter o | tury ago not one. as then existed, could | be given gway to-day. What a m . } The lit ments of a life | swept"away almost in a moment as by t devastatings fire of the prairie! Twenty s is not far and 1 recall e vester clinics that possibl rivaled | known world. Small wonder | surgeon’s breast dilated with pride as he | entered the amphitheater to receive tha | homage of 30 admiring students. Small | wonder that he felt, ““What surgeons of a former ra they could see what we are « we on t | patient who has sought the | of the clinic is a y | s of the neck s and the p: around the clin handle the neck for th and while the patient thetic the surgeon de nat and treatment proper for such conditic Once the patient Is unconscious the geon begins. With the first ine flows, but this is wiped away of spon Does_an artery ught and tied. Finally the tume | removed and down deep in the wou physi who brought the | clinte to put his f the deep pulsating artery t | Pus—and this is shown to the clas . following clinic as the much-hoped-for result, but it never once oceurred to any Present that contamination could cur from that of stus h: or from sponges that had been used f months, it may be, and that, too, on every variety of case, or from ligatures that h hung for weeks in the dust so deep impressed wer urgeons then wi the importane gnizing th cacy of laudable pus that when n W to be shown in the clinic it was obtain | from a neighboring hospital to illustrate a lecture. | I have spoken of the military surg | at the time of Napoleon and said that it would compare favorably with th own war between the ate T about our late war with Spa D one recall a request from the surg score eon i the field for scraped lir What be asked, placed ail the orders f« | cal dressing in the hands of few , and that, t reat expe when it would ha en provided loyal mothers and sisters for the ing he answer to this and similar qu that pertain to modern surgical meth | introduces the crowning discovery of the century—viz., the source and nature of wound infection. It has remained for th last quarter of the century to demor > | that floating in the air we breathe. lodged upon and in the recesses of the skin, 3 | the clothing and everything about wu i or animal. of microseopic which, under the & in | luences of warmth. me genial nourishment, multiplie: 1 . rapidity that baffles human ptiof The study of these mic “the rganisms | under what conditions they thrive. | xact nature of their food, how th | can be excluded from wounds, how they | can be destroyed, how, when t ntered a wound, minimized or pelled, are the pr that crowded close upon their di This disccvery and its developme olutionized medical education now beginning his course Jaborato: and with the m has_revolutiorized surgical trume operating rooms, surgical dressings the technique of every surgical op their influenc 1 the in wpe: i It has created a department wholly un- known a quarter of a century ag schools for t ining of narses were the surg f a former ger to visit us now it is hard to tell w the anesthetic. the X-ray or the i of trained nurses with the elaborate s gical technique But_the discovery of pus-produc ganisms has done something more: it created a science. Whiters of s works have hitherto entitled their “The Science and Art of Surgery.’ Principles of Surgery.” etc., but ne fore the present quarter of a century w there anvthing in the pathology of treat- uld astonish them most. ing ¢ ment of surgical maladies that was worthy the name sclence. The “art of surgery” has in every age kept pace | the génius of the times and subsi every expedient that could benefit the ferer. Not so with the so-called “sei Its teachings have varied age, from vear to yvear. thought. taught or practiced al in the babble of the schools ‘s blushed and held down her head. from No two aut to-day. The “science of surgery” cended her throne and sways a <cep more absolute than the Caesars. A little over a quarter f a century age a - nowned surgeon, standing by the bedsida of a patient whose malady was obscure, remarked: “T'd give $1M0 If T dare ecuf into that abdomen.” patient would have died it would have been mansiaughter. it would be deemed mansi: such a case perish without reli nineteenth century. the past w Had he done so that had he déne so To-dey thee homage! Will the “iture nreauee thy peer? OSCAR H. ALLIS Philadetphia. Trouble Among Foresters. Max Boehm. 6 Eddy street. high chief ranger Ancient Order of Foresters, swore to complaints in Judge Cabanigs’ court yesterday for the arrest of Henry Nathan and Louis Heinz on the charge of em- bezzlement. Nathan recording secre- tary and Heinz financial secretary of Court Tvanhoe, Anclent Order of Forest ers, and they ref’ to deliver up the books in their possession to their suceces- sors. A portion of the court seceded from the Ancient order and joined the Amer- can order, which has caused considerable jealousy. Slot Machine Raid. Henry thom Wohrden and Frank W, Woenne, saloon-keepers on Market street, charged with conducting a game of chance by using a nickel-in-the-slot ma- chine and paying in coin. appeared befors Judge Cabaniss vesterday. om Wohr. den pleaded guilty and was fined §io. Woenne demanded a trial by jury and ths case was continued till Monday 0 be sst.