The Washington Bee Newspaper, March 21, 1908, Page 2

OLD HEALTH RESORT TEMPLE WHERE HIPPOCRATES PRACTICED IN 500 B. C. Greek Patients Treated 2,400 Years Ago Much as They Would Be in a Modern Hospital — Ruins Recently Unearthed. ew York.—Th ancient Greek hex last into view is most famcus mples and t whose been br land of Co ruins the | 4¥gean sea, not far from the west corner ci Asia Minor. There were larger health temples than that of Cos, but the newly discoy- ered temple is most celebrated of them all, because it was there that Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, studied and practiced the art of heal- ing and wrote of the books that have come down to us. It was there that he freed medicine from some of the ancient superstitions and that his powers of observation and scientific insight led him to discoveries of new truth that were a blessing to the Greeks for centuries after his death. This forerunner of the modern hos- pital was built about 2,400 years ago. The place where it stood had been so changed by earthquakes and the rav- ages of time and men that it was not identified as the site of the health temple of Hippocrates till three years ago. Then two British architects began digging and found inscriptions proving that on this spot the long-lost temple stood. Excavations were rapidly pushed and the foundations and ruined some ‘CRADLE” OF ANTHRACITE COAL, Centennial Fuel of First Burning of the Being Celebrated. Wilkesbarre, Pa—This city is cele- brating the centennial of the first | burning of anthracite coal in a grate, | the experiment having been tried here jfrom which grew the mammoth coal business of to-day, which employs 180,000 men and boys, produces 80,- 000,000 tons of coal every vear and adds $320,000,000 to the wealth of the country It is just 100 years ago that Judge Jesse Fell successfully burned anthra- cite, or stone coal, as it was then Grate in Taproom of Fell Tavern at Wilkesbarre, Pa. called, for the first time in an open grate. The experiment was in the big taproom of the old Fell tavern, jand this room and the grate are still preserved, although the o:d tavern has long since disappeared. The room /was kept intact and the present build- jing, a hotel, erected around it. Coal had been discovered many years before Judge Fell's veriment, j but had not been put to practical use except by a few blacksmiths, who had burneé it in their forges, where, under a strong draft, it had ignited and made a hot fire. No one thought of using it for household purposes, how- buildings, now revealed, were found ete pel iadee Fell began to — to cover an area of 590 feet from north na if a fire such as he had seen in to south and 423 feet from east io ee forges could sis produced from wiak. it, it would be of exceedingly great So much has been found that it is Y#!ue im the household. He set to not difficult to make a mental picture work. mat atthoush scaRed at by of the ensemble of the beautiful build. ;™@"Y friends he had built into the ings that stood here over 2,000 years old fireplace in the big taproom two side walls of brick, and at the bot- tom and front of the open box he formed in the center he put flat strips of iron, forming grate bars. It was a wintry night when Judge Sanitarium Where Hippocrates Prac- ticed 24 Centuries Ago. ago. A picture of the health temple, undoubtedly giving a fair idea of it, is reproduced here from the Proceedings of the Royal institution of Great Britain. The site, two miles from the sea, is very beautiful. Mountains rise on two sides of it and it is fronted by the turquoise -Egean dotted with islands. The buildings were grouped on three terraces. In front is the three-sided portico | and its buildings where patients were | received and where the consultation and operating rooms and baths were situated. It here that Hippoc rates wrote his notes on many impor tant cases. The baths were he was at ever in the medial uses of water. It is suppos' that the medical schoo! also occupied some of the front buildings. A flight jn the ground leads second and here w great altar, from which smoke be seen arising in the picture, and the gymnasium, for Hippocrates prescribed a great deal of exercise in suitable cases. On this terrace have been unearthed many wall slabs inscribed with wise max- ims in regard to health that have come down to us in the writings of Hippoc- rates, Reached by the broad stairs ascend- ing to the third terrace is the restora- tion of the beautiful temple of Apol- lo. The temples of all the greater gods exacily faced the east, and this is the only building in the that had precisely that orientation. The priests of Apollo here were trained to the care of the sick, and so their religious ceremonies occupied only a part of their time. In the build- ings that surround the terrace on three sides were the sleeping apartments of the patients. Thus it is seen that 2,400 years ago the sick in this hospital were sur- rounded by many of the advantages which to-day regarded as helpful to invalids. They were nursed back to health in a lovely environment, for here was the charm of mountains. plain and sea—a place of rest, and beauty. There was the daily routine of treat- ment by baths, exercise, massage, a regulated diet and medicines of vege- table origin, which usage had ap- proved, and there were hours of sitting out in the sunlight in that pure moun- tain air, and to divert attention from human ills there were processions of white-robed priests and priestesses, with music of flute and cithara and the singing of paens. Here Hippocrates wen his undying fame by his devotion and lifelong la- bors to help the sick and mained, to lessen suffering of all kinds and to re- cord his expe ces and discoveries was numerous because be a re- i of stairs to the the may middle terrace, pea for the be t of future generations. He placed curative methods upon a mew basis. sanitarium { Fell filled up the grate with wood, got it well ablaze upon a foundation of red hot embers. and then placed the coal upon it. While the interested and scoffing crowd of town notables watched, they saw that without any aid in the form of an artificial draft the coal soon ignited, and in a little while soon red hot and giving forth a steady, lasting heat they never obtained from wood. In this manner the real usefulness of anthracite coal was established. The busine w very slowly, how- ever, and it w not until eight years later that shipments of hard coal reached 1,000 tons. was PURDY TO BECOME A JUDGE. “Chief Trust Buster” to Retire from Department of Justice. Washington.—Milton sistant to the attorney general, “chief trust buster” and originator of the re- ceivcrship innovation in trust prosecu- | tion, will shortly retire from the de- | partment of justice. It is understood Purdy’s resignation D. Purdy, as- DMIGET PUL R was accepted with reluctance, to take effect within 60 days. Purdy is said to be slated for a cir- cuit judgeship in the Eighth circuit, as he is a Minneapolis man and is known to have an ambition to sit in that court in his home state. Purdy served under Knox, Moody and Bonaparte, pushed to success the suit against the paper trust and pre- pared the papers asking for the disso- lution of the powder, Standard Oi! and tobacco trusts and anthracite coal roads. Good at Guessing. | Mike was coming to America on an jocean steamer, with a bag on his back made of a bandanna handkerchief, in which were all of his belongings. There were two E hmen aboard the boat with him. When they land- ed in Philadelphia they thought they would have some fun with Mike. One said: “How far is it to Balti- more, Mike?” “How did you guess my name?” said | Mike. “O, I just guessed it,” said the other. “Well,” said Mike, “if you can guess my name, guess how far it is to Bal } timore.” e cities the death rate much greater than in In most la in winter is summer. : | | } } There is a full-length portrait of De. HISTORIC BUILDING SOMETHING OF- YORK STATE’S OLDEST HOMESTEAD. Contains Relics of Robert Fulton and Cther Inieresting Treasures, with Reminders of the Indian Days. New York.—f ail the _ historical gene s in the Glen-San- ders home t .” at Schen- ectady, is easily first—the first in date as well as in interest to the yrian. For nearly 250 jon, constructed from stone rried from the nearby rocks and timbers hewn from the for- ests, has stood there on the north side cf the Mohawk, just across the river from the city, and watched the old town of Schenectady grow from an Indian castle to the most important electrical city in the world. The build- ings andsestate have never been out of the family, and Charles P. Sanders,} the present occupant, is a direct de-, scendant of Alexander Lindsay Glen, the son of a Scottish chief, who, when exiled from his own country, founded another Scotia in America. It was on July 27, 1661, that Peter Stuyvesant, director general and com- | missary of the Priviledged West India company at Fort Orange, the town of | Beverwyk (now Albany), counter- signed a deed of sale from certain chiefs of the Mohawk valley unto Sieur Arent Van Curler, called inj Indian “Schonawa” (where Schenec- tady now stands), for-a “certain eae ber of cargoe: presumably of cloths, arms, trinkets and rum. Schenectady | was the second of the five Mohawk | castles to be sold to the whites, who found the flats cleared and the land already cultivated. Three years before this Alexander Lindsey Glen, the Highlander, had | settled on a tract of land north ofthe Indian village of Schonawa and built himself a mansion of stone under the protection and title of the Mohawks. In 1665 he secured a patent for his lands on the north of the river, thus perfecting his title to “Scotia.” The mansion covers a targe area. The stone walls are thick and massive, the rooms large and the ceilings lofty. The stone was quarried near by and the timbers cut from the largest trees of the forest. The logs were first hewn square and then quar- tered with a whip-saw, making four timbers from each log. Wherever possible, joints were morticed and fastened with wooden pins. Iven the sugges nate and t years i ] Old Glen-Sanders Homestead at Schen- ectady, N. Y. interior is secured was nece y be- nails and spikes | woodwork in the in this way. Th cause in those days had to be hand-wrought by a black smith. Alexander Lindsey Glen died in 1685 and the estate passed to the youngest of his three sons, John Alex- | ander Glen, better known by the French and Indians Maj. Coudre. He married Anna Peek, the daughter of the settler from whom Peekskil! takes its Twenty-eight years after his father’s death John Alex- ander moved his mansion 100 feet to the north on account of a= slight change in the river bed which threat- | ened the foundations. “Maj. Coudre” died in 1731 and the estate passed into the hands of Col. Jacob Glen, who had command of all | the troops and militia west of Albany. It was then that the mansion began to be used as a storehouse of public docu- | ments. On the river side of the house, which was originally the front, is the | old Dutch “stoop,” whence one looks out where the Indians burned their prisoners. To the left of the roomy hall is the spacious library with wide fire- place and magnificent view of the river. On all sides of the room are} book shelves full of old English, Duteh and French classics in rare editions; bound volumes of the first newspa- pers, histori diaries and dozens of name as volumes printed in the seventeenth century. One of the new pers gives an account of “King hington’s Inauguration Speech.” The paper is dated May 6, 1789, and was an “extra,” notwithstanding the news was a week old. On the walls are large paintings of | the most novel members of the family. borah Glen, the greatest personality in the family. Nearby is the smiling face of her playr >, John Sanders, | as a boy. He later became her hus- band and merged the Glen name with that of Sanders. A nick in the mahogany ballustrade in the hall shows where an Indian hatchet, thrown in the heat of quarrel in the house, struck the wood after barely missing the head of the mis- tress, Deborah Glen. It is said that she put both the braves out of the house. One room contains the furniture and outfit of Robert Fulton, who was a rel- ative of the family by marriage. a a ae ee | street north and the canal, and between | nal. THE COMING ELECTION. How the District Will Be Divided. The District of Columbia will be di- vided into twenty-two districts, as fol- lows: First District—All that part of the conuty of Washington, outside the lim- its of the cities of Washington and Georgetown, lying east of Lincoln ave- nue and Bunker Hill road. j Second District—All that part of the| county of Washington, outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown, lying west of Lincoln avenue and Bunker Hill road. Third District—All that part of the city of Georgetown lying west of High; street. | Fourth District--All the part of the city of Georgetown lying east of High Street. | Fifth District—All that part of the city of Washington lying west of twen- ty-first street west. 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