PRRMKNTATION. 561 



Till- ioll is going <'!l to-day, llllll it 



has been permitted to go on for hunt a 



information regarding its vouchsafed t< the 



;iig sentient world. We- have been scourged In invis- 

 ible throngs, n from impenetrable ambuscades, and 



only to-day that the light <>f .-eii-nce is being U't in 

 upon the murderous dominion <f our foes. Facts like 

 these excite in me the thought that tin- rule and go\ern- 



f i\\\< universe are different from what we in our 

 youth supposed them to be that the inserniable Power, 

 at once terrible ami beiietieent. in whom we live an<i move 

 and have our being and our end, is to be propitiated by 

 different to those usually resorted to. The first, 

 toward such propitiation is kmnr/m Mcond 



-haped and illuminated by that knowledge. Of 

 knowledge we already see the dawn, which will open out 

 by and by to perfect day; while the action which is to 

 follow has its unfailing source and stimulus in the m<>rul 

 and emotional nature of man in his desire for personal 

 well-being, in his sense of duty, in his compassionate 

 path? wit a the sufferings of his fellow-men. " Howo: 

 Mjsl)r. William Buddin his celebrated work on Typhoid 

 Fever " How often have I seen in past days, in the single 

 narrow chamber of the day-laborer's cottage the fath> 

 thccoflin, the mother in the rick-bed in muttering delirium, 

 and nothing to relieve the desolation of the children but 

 the devotion of some poor neighbor, who in too many cases 



tie penalty of her kindness in becoming herself the 

 victim of the same disorder!" From the vantage ground 



,\ won I look forward with confident hope to the 

 triumph of m-'dieal art over scenes of misery like that here 

 described. The cause of the calamity being once clearly 

 iot only to the physician, but to the public, 

 whose intelligent co-operation is absolutely essential to suc- 

 cess, the final victory of humanity is only a fjuesti 

 time. \\ dready a foretaste of that victory in the 



triumphs of surgery a.- your doors. 



