1890 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



846 



So with y(>ll()\v tVvci'. diplitluM'iii. and. indi't-il. 

 ■with most other ('|)iii('iiiic diseases. The last 

 time yellow fe\('r a i^iieared in the South, tak- 

 ing Jaeks(mville. Florida, as an e.xample, only 

 one in twelve eases jnoved fatal. It nsed to be 

 said, when I was a boy. tliat in ordinary f(>vers, 

 sncli as they tlien liad in New England, tiiat 

 five out of six would recover, witli good nurs- 

 ing, williout medicine. I liv(>d abont 30 years 

 wiiere malarial fever prevailed in various 

 forms, from fever and ague to continued IVil- 

 iou.s - typlioid. Our slieet - anchor remedies 

 wei'e some preijaration of mercnry and (|uinin(>. 

 Four years ago I visited again the region of 

 malaria. Illinois and Missouri, the southei'ii 

 part of both States, and. contrary to my expec- 

 tation. I was taken down witli malarial fever, 

 identically the same that I liad had so often 30 

 years before. The o]i\ remedies were used, 

 blue-mass and quinine. 



Before we quite dismiss the subject, whether 

 pliysicians have a needed place in society. I 

 want to call attention to surgery. Surgery l)e- 

 longs to tlie physician. None but a pliysician 

 who understands anatomy, materia medica. 

 and the vital forces of the human system, 

 sltotdd use the "knife." In surgery, many val- 

 uable discoveries have lieen made during tlie 

 present century. Wliat middle-aged man ever 

 heard of operating on ovarian tumor in his boy- 

 hood ? A few years ago a physician started 

 from Philadeljihia. and in his trip to ^liiinesota 

 and iiack he performed ten such operations. I 

 happened to bi' acquainted with one of tiie ten. 

 In all. I know three whose lives liave been 

 saved by removing such tumors. One of the 

 three has been oijerated on three times for the 

 same malady. I knew a girl thii'ty years ago 

 ■wlio had had a large Iiole eaten through hei' 

 check by the reckless use of calomel, as they 

 said. The girl, as by instinct, kept her tongue 

 in the liole (no doubt it felt better stopped than 

 open). She was a siglit to liehold. A year or 

 two ago I saw Iter again, and the cheek had 

 no hole in it. She was a tine -looking lady. 

 A surgeon had cut a ])iece of tiesh from the 

 arm. and caused it to grow into tlie cheek. Of 

 course, the arm was fastem^d up to the cheek, 

 and tlie tlesii of tlie arm was not entirely dis- 

 severed till its adhesion to tlie clieek was se- 

 cured. Wlio will undervalue sucli surgical 

 skill? 



Once, the patient in a surgical operation had 

 to endure all the pain that the nervous system 

 could inflict: now. we have found out how to 

 suspend the feeling of tlie wliole body, or a 

 part of the boily. for a time, and we can cut or 

 manipulate at will, with little or no distressing 

 pain to the patient while we are doing it.- Is 

 any thing gained to the human faifiily by these 

 late discoverii^s in medicine and surgery? 



Then in regard to the compounding of medi- 

 cines — how crude our medicines were sixty 

 years ago, compared with what tliey are now! 

 Now a i)hysician can cari-y in his vest-pocket. 

 in efhcacy, what would have taken saddle- 

 bags to carry when I was a l)oy. I know not 

 •whei'e to stop exalting tin- medical j^rofession. 

 wliiMi in suitable hands, and the lietter jiart of 

 man, tlie spiritual iiart. is enlisted in the work. 

 Were I a young man. with "he views I now 

 have of the relation of (Jod to man. and the 

 . correlative duties of man to (iod. I caiTt see 

 how I could better follow the footsteps of my 

 Redeemer than by doing what I could for my 

 fellow-man in this life — when sick, restoring 

 him to health: when mangled and bleeding, 

 binding up his wounds, and. in so doing, I 

 could more effectually minister to tlie spirit, to 

 tit it for the other state of existenci!. 



In concluding this article I wish to say that 

 no small part of a physician's duty is to in- 



struct the i^eople while they are in liealth. or 

 comparatively so. An okiicc of pri'\eiitives is 

 often worth a ))ouiid of cure. Eat and drink 

 moderately such things as ought to be eaten 

 and drank. Such things as. in their nature, 

 are not calculated to sustain and Imild up the 

 system, let alone, rntoxicants iind narcotics 

 are of the latter class. If used as medicines, 

 wdien the disease is subdued, stop the remedies. 

 Tliere is not an intelligent physician in the 

 land, but will tell you that the use of liquor or 

 tobacco tends to unnerve the system, and makes 

 it less able to resist disease, and less capable of 

 throwing oft' disease when it has once invaded 

 the system. N. A. HuxT. 



Mapleton, Minn., Nov. 13. 



Friend H., Gleanings did not mean to re- 

 flect by any means on the regular practicing 

 physician. You are right in saying, however, 

 that it requires wisdom and judgment in decid- 

 ing wlutt physician to employ when there are a 

 great many. It is sometimes said, that "doctors 

 disagree." May be some of you have heard 

 the expression before. Well, is it not true that 

 doctors are coming more into harmony than 

 they have been? I confess it gives one's faith 

 a severe shock when he consults different phy- 

 sicians, and they all contradict each other. In 

 our town it is getting to be quite customary for 

 physicians as well as ministers to counsel to- 

 gether: and it seems to me as if it gave us a 

 glimpse of the " good time coming." Why 

 shouldn't all the physicians of a small town, 

 say like our own. unite together in giving 

 coitnsel when the life of a beloved citizen is in 

 great danger? l'>y all means, let us have faith 

 in the neighbors round about us. Of course, 

 tliat does not mean the traveling ones. 



RAMBLE NO. 33. 



I.AlvE GEOIiOE. 



Wlio can alig'lit on as luippy a sliore 

 All the world o'er, all the world o'er ? 

 —Tennyson. 



The peculiar charms of Lake (ieorge are 

 found in several points, among w liich are beau- 

 tiful scenery, ch'ar and pure waters, and brac- 

 ing air. The weary toiler in some rut of life's 

 drudgery, for a brief season dwells upon this 

 happy shor(\ and soon forgets the ache and the 

 jiain. exchanging them for the elastic step and 

 the joyous laugh that throws dull care to tlie 

 winds. 



Every one who participated in the bee-keep- 

 ers' camp at Lake George in August will attest 

 to the happy time there enjoyed. The Rambler 

 ti'ied to he the lirst on the ground, lint Nig was 

 not so fleet of foot as the little sail boat of Lar- 

 rabee Rros., favored by a lioomiiig wind, and 

 they distanced us l)y about an hour. We were, 

 moreover. load<'d with a variety of lishing- 

 tackle that would iinz/le the brains of Ike Wal- 

 ton himself. IJrodie lligley. our 17-year-old 

 companion, and the youngest bee-keeper of the 

 cam)), iiad borrowed all the lishing-tackle in 

 two neighborhoods, and had every thing from a 

 fiddle-stj'ing to a clothes-line, and was bound 

 to clean out Lake (Jeorge. Hros. Lockhart wel- 

 comed us. and we had a cordial hand-shake all 

 around; and. pitching our tents, our camp 

 began to assume (pute a business air. We re- 

 tired early, after tlie fatigues of the day: and 



