Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-03-10
Getting into Praotioe.

The following extract from an address 10 the
students of the New York Medical College, by DR.
Frank Tuthill, is description any of our best NJ.
D.'sare welcome to, il they like III: g 2 ~
The wi IS and the ways, said the Doctor, have
laid down great many rules for getting into prac-
ice, and generally at the expense of the doctors.
FFhere are two ways, my boy said Radcliffe to
Mead, his successor, tfor physician to t.eat his
pauents-eithsr TO bully or caiole them. l have
taken tie former course and done well, as you
see You may. perhaps, take the lattei, and per.
haps do equally as well.' Be careful, say the adj
yslng wits, TO learn the form ofpreScriblng since
lormls tile main chance. Make your name ring
IN the town; 1T little matters how, so only that
this point be secured, that when your name is pro-
posed consultation, there shall be none SO guo-
famt but Will confess they have heard il. Buy
mountain of books and be sure none OF them be
lett IN secluded paris of your house. Or il you
have not the money to buya mountain let the few
DO good service, even as our famous Yankee GEN
eral putnam made his lean score of soldiers
march over the verge Of the hill so olien that tn.
terrified enemy reported lo.ce OF many hundred
strong; and never omit mere mention, where il
Will tell, OF The library from which these are
brought out Tor Immediate use, il being altogether
too large 10 be kept in so s.lall an Office. You
Will get INTO an hospital, of course, il yuu can,
and course OF lectures during the season can do
no harm. For business purposes. it isnot ofmucn
Importance what your religion or whit YOUR poll-
tics be, only be decided either way, and when
| friends OF your creed are around, make consider
able notice about it. Or il, like some newspapers
you are neutral in politics and religion make a
tu:s about your neutrality, except wien the reli.
gions or politicians happon 10 be The majorIty OF
those abuutiyou. 1t is hardly necessary 10 speak
oil what good wife can do. in The county, ri,
least, the nice jellies she makes for the sick, and
her incompatible nursing, and her skilful tongue
can do half at least. Some, they say, have done
very well by ritlng book; it answers in the be-
ginning, at last, TO keep one in his office, and
contented while the public are learning 10 appre-
ciate him. Invent Theory or re- hash an old one
| II VIII answer purpose, and can lie dropped
when II becomes unpleasant. Some have done
nobly as poets. What lady distressed with mild
neuralgia, would not rejoice at the amiable anu
witty DIR. Pegasus, whose Poem in Putnani's
last Monthly, is OH every ones tongue. IL The
poem seems by the title, to bear Sedatary qurs-
ton, 1t is all the better. II very desirable 10 be
agreeable 10 nurses. aid 10 those in general who
have The run OF sick rooms, and though not offer.
enoughto be suspected OF lacking employment, ye
suihclent 10 secure the friendship of the apotheca
~, he should be in at the druggists. Let no on.
omit 10 avail himself of the services of the Press
Advertising, unfortunately being prohibited bytm,
code OF ethics has gone over into the hands of pro
iessed quacks, but there are great inanu ways al
| advertising.
!, Hire some rowdy to black your eyes and tell tn,
story 10 some reporter In setting it up of couts
The printer may be trusted 10 make some bundel
aud next day send in your card to the editor viii,
brief statement of the affair as it occurred Civ
lng your residence of course, and proe Il asain>
being dragged before the public-a thing alwa,
so annoying 10 the modest practitioner. Putting whe.
II Is to he had, answers very good turn; but as il,
the respectable papers it is difficult natter 10 ob
lain II, DO the next best thing-get some friend
connected with daily to pitch into you. SAID !.
renownedphysican OF This City: al un,e nv sue
Cess iroiE the time that the New York Daily
called HE II scoundrel !'