Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1911 — Ministers. [ARTICLE]

Ministers.

Much alarm is done by the excellent men and women who gather up all the charges of cruelty against surgeons and physicians and publish them in the Interest of humanity. We make no exception, not even in the case of missionaries, when we say that there is no class in the community which furnishes more heroic examples of devotion to the Interests of mankind than the nurses and physicians who spend their lives not only in ministering to the sick, but in devising new ways to relieve suffering and in tracing out the secret causes of disease. Every month we read of physicians who have loot their lives in the conduct of experiments designed solely to banish the plagues which devastate society. They die of yellow fever, the plague, leprosy, the baneful effects of radium, and the new applications of the secret forces which are just coming under experiment in chemical laboratories.—Christian Register.