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MAGAZINE iSECTIOIl THREE Portland, ; oregon; Sunday v morning . hay s, i?07 i 1 f " ' 01 m .fyRIM and earnest is a battle that f tt is being waged day by day and I hour by hour a battle of in- tensest purpose, of -more moment than any of the conflicts carried on by nation against nation. It is ihe battle of modern Science against Disease. t On the one hand, a subtle, invisilte agency, wreaking destruction by forces ,ipore. potent than arms lerions aid , lerions of germs sweeping among nations ,: of men like devastating foes; on -the other hand, pitted against these powerful factors, a mere handful, comparatively . speaking, of scientists, surgeons and phy- sicians a noble band of men who are - Stilt 1 4 r "((.Ili.lliMV r devoting days' and nights and ' ' ' clear, trained brains to devis- f . V..."' J ing means of defense and sue- cessful warfare against the enemies of the human race. '. jf - ' . , , ' For centuries deadly agents of human woe-disease germs remained undiscov ered and, unhindered, carried on a fearful , '. and destructive foray. , '- ' But Science has begun a determined battle; like a knight fighting some, hideous - aragon of sypematuraii powers it has fol- lowed the disease girm fo'its lair; wrenched ; rv from it the secret of its existence; and has , l- contrived wonderful-antitoxins for its de-Tt struction. . '' ' ' ' ; There 'are on record ; perilous risks taken and' marvelous feats accomplished.' Fiiin.th ht art that delic.ai nrtrntt nf lit .u " f . I . , . 7 T H opfratea upon, taken from the body and washed Or sewn. With Silver wire, while ' "1 nas pccn.Tcsforea i.i tnwe apparency V fX UCCOrdtnttO-an iminent physician, by .t- f -jArit-tts,UAl . - - v! . a massage of the vital organ. ... .. k'v ff . . - Jr T A- s.' -7 . a'i ' ' u' j- j t ' wIC A .4 wsulfof .the, discovery of the ao- ' t t . tion of disease srerms and thn effet . . J : of antitoxins. " declared Dr. TT. .- xurwu vowjveuBuu, t oi xauimore ' county Md.. . recently, "man s allotted ' three--' score years and ten will soon cease, to be a myth. isease a harmless indisposition and death by: xwenuem, century meaicine wiu ma Re . - fcu?nr.. electro-therapy ;. and ;4Koentgen blade-' as it cuts the quivering flesh, the greater -a physician in openins the chest and saueeehur of a Tatientl invthevMedico-Chi Ilospital in rejtored- ' ' rays ara. daily .demonstrate: the -fact - 1 ' the heart, much-as one would a'SMntre.'to re-' Philadplnhia. The . patient- suffered from - an- -v CONTINUED , ; ' .' ... t i "1 i 1 . y ' ? r . -it V 0 .V -V A; 44 I .V 9-7- i y . ' v " ' hitherto, unconauerable' diseases are ." to treajntent and serum-therapy, ' the gUttering dream of generations gone, is bwom w t- - - - , , y,, .W and surgery promise Nothing less than a life free from sickness and ai longevity ending only by accident- as the t..t,'ra t k n:.t..U Will science fail! 'Ifot if the", promise of " dcicuiwtj ibui iioi ix uiot proniiso wx ."years comes true.' , Medical' and surgicaLaci-" rA 1. lot, u- ..j - - , . .omo.tr6t,L v- . j on "mysterious maladies-- and 'avmntmyM nt diwiw in'mxulil discoveries have -been made.' vc - ; in surgery, particularly. there have been ? astonishing results-the . more . daring ' the op- . ,tr. -JIS V." - f -y,' " ' : ; i ' ls;;:, - i. j,' . 01 ijiiiciijnau, nBH aeciarea iui , ojijAucame . is wneirQ etner or tnioroiona nas from motor aphasia and loss of speech. Attue - . " . -J 1 ' h': ' ' - - there are cases -whore life can ibeenadm ; - ; v - .. . . s be; restored f after death by, aaiauott;.orxUumiatuig or other, such gas, an : V 1 tested 1 V',' 'Ml ) IT -. 4 . Such adWnces have been : ' . " : maue, even, uiav a pruiouieuit ' ' ,' ' surgeon, Dr, B. 5 M. Kicketts, '( i.; '- :t 15 vf; v1'" iv:;,j:lii""tiuiouuu wi. w ucf . j "oe vii,ouw iiuiu 4.rigui, . uij ui jr . vi . iui( ivu .: . an(j recovered from enuepsy.-'w' ' ' ' t nnrfii blooA or probably in many cases . ; ' person, woo unu.ueeu uu wwu7 iweuvr minutes, through massage of the heart. " - , ' Of twenty-five dogs that, had been chlo- roformed, in experiments along this line, until . , i.v.: v.j j ' revived when the breasts were opened and the- revived wnen uie uiensui were uyeueu axiu inv hearts squeezed about sixty times to the min- i t ...; Tr . t:u1- . ' been . operated upen for cardiac, "The heart has actually been stimulated to jat j faction one or" two davs after death." declared Dr.- Kicketts. "yet one or two minutes after the ' ' i 7 II 7 V" :1 , ; ' v -y new its action. T . u ciass. ox lation of . the? heari es in which thismanipu- o renew me u especially - abj -uoowuer . yr. uiwu.i.wjwu u Hospital-for-Children,, at Bristol,. England, ; opened the breast of a boy twenty-five minutes after he had apparently died from the effects r. j j o . tion. - ' - ' - nun. . . - ,i Grasping j i.- Ihe heart," the doctor squeezed it A flutter; artific, - the pulse :naiuraL respiration was established.- fm.-v.j.-.jl. v.,.. t,a .t-- Fifty fet 1 ' of wjrel were, recently coiled : rl i . i ' , a,. ii.A . .AM.Mfl. 4.1.:. r- Gradually the heart beean to' - sight of both eyes.IJy chance we -rs al respiration was applied and thereof an . H v UZ?ZX j ' . MVfiATi inirtred a steel splinter, tut the cornea periuu - Biker uie tcstyranoa qi I. ." J: . :': i il,r . eurism. lie ooil was placed. into the'vessel'to foTni'-ft ' " I framework "jOawM vlt . blood oould ooagnlate with the hope that the clot' would "grow into a. new tissue by . the . time ', , the , aneuriaoa : . u -should .bursfc' s, f t. . Th heart of GLOW. Mo- , Cartney,' a contractor of Lol , ; f Angeles,", whose bxoaat haJ , s been pierced ; by a rake la ' am automobile accident, was . ' ' lifted from the: body . and ' . ' grains of sand washed from ', Z?o a physician' of ,100 years ago' the com f ! monplaeea of surgery of : today, such as the ju-, ; . taring of .wounds of the : heart, 1 would eenv- marvels. According to a dispatch from'Lon '' j i. a i v-; v j ' ' :xnatoapK moving pictures showing the heart 4 pouring blood through the body" and the action , of 1 the breathing lungs have 1 been v obtained ' ; "J , . These pictures, physidana. say, ' will prove in- ;, ; " valuable in diagnosing r- cases and illustrating y lectures to students.1 t ' 1 1; V ,; -" ' ' When tho. principles, of . antiseptic surgerj; , ' were first adopted surgeons opened, the abdo ,. I - men with hesitation ; theyrgasped at the though ' of opening the heart. Since theii the scopehas ' broadened, .every aldominal viscus can be , ' " .treated surgically. Formerly irranial surgery - restricted itself to trephining ; now the removal ' f ' of the contents of an, abscess of the: brain, ex- -' J - cites little .more than passing interest among ". t ."',;x''physiciauvy S-'ur ':: ft::;i j- ; . After an accident to his head,: Timothy TTnnp. of "New York., develoDed. lesion of the ,. , brain; he lost all sense t.dislanotion, sunerea of Tlwtnoiiiet .r.1aTw and the hvsicians removed part of the tknU anj operated on the brain. Since then the manha8 been slowly regaining his senses. - - " , .wv;vu.rA 'Mnorted at m meeting of a medical society in. Vienna recenuy. R' ZirmA!l t S ' In A patient who -suffered ; from ulcers ' lost as iact. ymxmg np ners of. the blind man s eyes, tie doctor mjertol Piece8 from the eye of the ooy. no no ese u,e ON INSIDE PAGE) IT1 '" j '