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Lire insurance exoeits tell us that w-ithiu the last. bait century there has been n marked decrease in infant mortality and an increase in the average man's length oi life. ‘When we go back only sixty years we understand what a marvellous indvance has been made in the pre- ivestion and cure 0t disease. For in 1867. and 1877 for that matter, the medical profession was moving in pretty thick darkness. I-low tienso was the wood 0t‘ ignorance in which doctors groped can be il- Justrstetl by a story related to me (thy a friend who was a little boy livhen the British N-orih America _Act was passed. His brother was ydown with typhoid fever and the iiamiiy doctor had given strict or- Yders not to give the patient a drink lot water. The constant cry of the lsick brothers was “water, mother. ‘water; mother. just one drink oi‘ water! Night and day the lever- ed boy kept up-the implorlng cry and the poor mother ilared not give the emaciated patient. a single drink. One day she ‘washed her lumds in a basin and happened to leave it on a table near the bed. When she left the room she heard a crash. iShe returned to find the basin empty on the flour. The thirsl-maddencd boy bad attempt- ed to reach it and had overturned ii, Shc did not know whether he had swallowed any of the dirty water or not, but she decided that she ‘would give him a drink, for his chances foi recoveiy seemed very slim. She simply could not re- sist his hcarnronilering appeals any longer. She gave him cold water to drink and it seemed to do him good. Anyway he recovered! Strange was it not, that centuries of practice had not taught the med- ical profession that water was not really injurious to feverish pat- lents?

The stupid prutticc of bleeding Patients was pretty generally dis- continued by the middle oi‘ the last century. but as late as 1880 an Ontario man culled on a Winnipeg doctor, who is himself an authority for the stoiy. and asked that he should be bled. i-le showed the scars on his limbs and said that it was 111:. habit to the bind in was; onto a year. ‘He thought that it. niprovctl his health. We laugh to- iuy at tho insane practice oi’ tak- ilg‘ a pint, sometimes a quart, 0t blood fronts sick man who need- rd all the vital fluid ‘he had, but this ~was considered to be a bene- Iicial treatment, and. as late as 1S- il. -scorcs of’ elderly Canadian doc- mrs still followed the cuistont which was venerable in Shake- speare's day and which is sy-mboll. :ally pictured to-day in the red lllfl while stripes of the pole out- iitle every ibarber shop, for in olden Amos the hair-Hitter‘ was also the olootl-letler.

Although thc use of chloroform l5 an anaesthetic lead been discov- ered by 1867, operations were few ind tar between. Arms and legs “'8” i1111l-111l1ll91l. but abdominal illfliery was practically unknown.

eied. Many died from appendicit- is Illlll in those days they called this trouble inflammation or the bowels. As late as 1879, only two )p0l"£itl0ll‘§. and those minor oucs,l were performed in Kingston hosplt-i .ll (luring tit-e course of u whole| yivur. Ono icuson why opera-i liUii-‘l were rarely resorted to was; iwcuusc they were usually fatnl, swing to the infection of the? wound. lu 1867, Lister ‘begun to} use antiseptic measures. such asi ‘VB-slim; his instruments in a solu~l ilOn of carbolic acid, but he did noti know at that time that germs zaused blood-poisoning. He wins lucky enough, however, to find a way to overcome infection, For several years. when perionniiig 0p. srations he svorked in a carbolic ipray ‘which played over himself,

in the early zoventic-s the discovery oi’ the world 0t‘ microbes by Pasteur and Koch marked the beginning oi‘ a now epoch in medicine. ‘

Sixty yours ago 11031111313 i“ [his "lllnlry Wl-ie in n. primitive stage. in one city in Canada. where a medical college was located. the hospital nurse's were or the iCarey Cami! order. elderly women who had no training as we understand the word to-day. They were in. structsd by the doctor-s to servo the Patients liberally with whiskey nauseating doses from a (ask which contained what was called Tonicus iDomestlcus. This wu-s com-posed or a mixture of four s's~suiphite of iron, 5n]. phide of quinine, sulphide o; 90.1.

Dhurice acid. The two caslts, one full oi‘ this horrible tonic and the other oi whiskey took the place of the hospizlbie dispensary o'i tn-dny,

There-are children's disease to- ilﬂy which continue to barrio the "lelllcﬂl mall. scarlet fever. mumps,

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diphtheria. that has slain its mil- lions oi young lives. its conquered thanks to the discovery of anti- toxin. Sixty years ago, however. whenever a youngster had s. bud sore throat, its parents were in terror for fear the child should have the dreaded diphtheria. Doc- tors ueually made an attempt to swab out the throat 0r t0 isnruy ll- with something. "but they were pow- erless to check the disease. lt had to run its course. it the child or grown-up Iliad estrous constitution‘ it might pull through. iifnot, death was certan. Very had cases were often called black diphtheria. but it was all one and vile same disease. We can scarce- ly imagine to-day the awful tear whicih shook the hearts 0i mothers in a Canadian village or town l1! the old days when The?! w" ‘"1 m" break ot (liphtherla, tor it meant that the grim reaper was sure to gather a harvest.

in the Eugllshispenking proviucq es iraccinatioti was 0011191118"? 1""! consequently the ravages oi’ sinull- i pox was light. but in QHBDBC. where people were oDlWBBI-l 1° Pm" ventive tmeasures, there was bad epidemics.

iIu 1882, ‘for example, hundreds died of "smallpox outbreak in Molirl Areal. But in other provinces the idisease was dreaded ‘more £11811 l! in; to.dﬂy_ in some rentote dis- itricts people would refuse to lift lithe coffin of a person wiho died 01 ‘smallpox and it. would be draEi-lell to the graveyard at the end of 11 loggln-gchain. ‘Often the D909“? were so irightened o‘! contagion that they would remulu Oillﬁlde "19 fence of bin: burial 511111111! “hill” the minister preached the 591111011 and read the service.

mhere were comparatively few tioctors in even the settled D11"! “l Canada when the Dominion was young, wlhlle. in new districts. sick people were obliged to depend 1111- on the poultices and blisters and herbal remedies prepared by llw old women or the neighborhood. But the regular doctors and the herbalist; believed l1hat._t-ho more distasteful the dose tho more pow- erful would be itscfiert. it was the golden age of drug! 11nd blwl- ers, not to mention cupping. a most painful method oi‘ treating those who complained o! headache, lum- ‘bago, and sciatica. And notwith- standing the long, sometimes her- oic, journeys, doctors mude in un- iawer to emergency 08118. lllﬂll‘ lcharges were moderate. The reg- 'ular tee for visit where ttlto doctor ihad to travel :1 couple of 11111115 was fifty cent-s. ‘lie made up the medicine tor she patient and chat-ig- ieti. for that only twenty live tents ‘a bottle. 0f course it must be remembered ~ that money had n greater purchasing power in those days, but the medical profession was certainly not n short cut to wealth. The family tint-tor oi‘ 13- 67. Iboweiver, tvas the friend and |confident of his patients, and, if his knowledge was limited, ‘his heart was full oi‘ kindness and in long viglls. with great devotion. he fought the tbest way he knew how in his duels with Dcnth. i

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