In “Gloria Christi,” we read the following:
The change in methods inaugurated by modern medicine in Syria
is shown by an anecdote. It is said that once when Dr. Jesup
was visiting Beirut, a native doctor asked him for an American
newspaper. He secured it, and some days after came back for
another. “What do you do with them?” asked Mr. Jesup. “Oh,” he
said, “I tear them in pieces, soak them in water, and feed them
in oil to my patients. It cures them all right!”
The palliatives of ignorance everywhere abound. As they are in
medicine, so they are in morals.
(1501)