GILT-EDGED SURGERY.
DENOUNCED FROM THE PULPIT. (By Telegraph.—Proaa Association.) Hamilton, September 80. ( The methods of moderp. surgeons come under' review by Dean Darby at Hamilton on Sunday, when he made a vigorous appeal to the congregation to guard "against operations. However muoh one liked to feel that money was Dot the'principal determining factor in operations; the fact was that tho way tc tho operating theatre was paved with gold. The doctor of old was thoughtful, cautious, and observant; tho present medico was a prospector armed' with tools to boro inside his fellow men, while women were rolled to the operating theatre as to a bijou show. The result was to-day that it was difficult to find » woman who had not been oper- / ated on; while twenty years ago it: was «gually diffloulfc to find onewho hadhad an operation. Many cases of operations were an admission of ignorance as if
the diagnosis had been more exact before the operations thore would be less human , suffering. Doctors knew that jbnee the knife had been in a patient he ifould return. ,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1869, 1 October 1913, Page 7
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178GILT-EDGED SURGERY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1869, 1 October 1913, Page 7
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