Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — MEDICAL MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

MEDICAL MATTERS.

A ted mi recently fought a* a Mitta aSkffa oa foe Briftaa frontier a which everything vu conducted under •trial antiseptic precautions. The Word blades were first placed in boiling water and then carefully washed In a 6 per cent solution of carbolic odd. The surgeons were ready with a corrosive sublimate solution es one to a thousand, and a number of gauze pledgets which hod been rendered asoeptic by thorough baking. Unfortu - nately for the success of the experiment foe duel was of the ordinary French kind, and the only wound received was a slight cut on the hand, which healed promptly after the application of a small piece of courtplaster. There are many women entering the profession of nursing whose sense of honor Is not high and whose appreciation of foe dignity of labor is not great, but who see in nursing either foe means of gaining a livelihood or a jray to escape from the rather dull and petty routine of a single girl's life at home. They like the eclat of doing a noble work and the independence which is essential to it, but are unwilling to do more work than they can help to attain their desire. There are, however, other women who. in taking up nursing, often as a means of livelihood, do so with the highest motives, and who, in rendering themselves independent, have at the 6ame time the great pleasure of helping others in their struggle through life. From this class, says Murray’s Magazine, come ail our best matrons, sisters and: nurses, and to them is due the high: position nursing holds os a profession for women. T j In his recent address before the . British Medical Association the emi-.i nent surgeon. Lawson Tait, has his ; little fling at general practice. No sooner is a new drug" placed on tho j market than everybody rushes to try ! it. At first it is well, and ‘•rubbishin” ; is good for everything. Then come a few isolated hints about the “toxic I effects of Tubbishin,’” and finally “rubbishin” gets dropped altogether and we hear no more about it. It is j positively awful to think of what some ofthesemewdrugs—sjay chloral, for instance —may have done before they got settled. For tho mischief that is done in this way tho public is largely ; to blame, if, indeed, it ia not wholly to blame; they like the idea of a new discovery, especially the upper classes, and Tait is told by men practicing near the dwellings of the princes of the land and at fashionable watering places that the great burden of their lives is to keep up with the new drugs and the new dodges. He distrusts men who are always going in for now drugs.