Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-11-13

physiology has still greater recommends
lions, and is, in the present state of ad-
vancement of the higher studies, real
necessity" If this had place in general
education, the requirements of the physi-
clan would be more generally known, and
the difficulties he had to surmount would
be better appreciated. The Difference due
from the public would be less parsimoni-
ously given less disinclination to pay his
legitimate fees. The cold refrain would
not meet him
CT have my rent to pay"
L havn't time now call again"
Your bill is too large"
"You made more visits than were ne
cessary %
He will not be COMPOUNDED when his
back is turned with:
Il hate to pay that fellows bill
''These doctors Troublesome
'They come, and look wise, feel our pulse,
Look at our tongue, and away they go .
Leaving their dark shadows behind them!'
So talks, chatters, the querulous old wo-
man. So growIs the garrulous old man.
They are taken sick. They are impatient,
fassy. They groan,-
80 dear. d ar I'm dying"
'tRun FIR the dear, dear doctor"
go nobody is like the poor DOCTOR,
ssNhat won't do for him when
81 get we'll God bless hiG!''
So the tune is changed. They make great
promises. They never fulfil them. It is
the duty, bounden duty, of every physi-
clan to overlook no case where absolute
poverty is no preventive, but insist on a
full payment of the legal fee. In doing
this he does not transgress but fulfils the
object of medical ethics on this point. We
say full payment, for a1ade9cha1.ging, IN
less 10 extreme cases, is always watched by
c. l. 4 -.
GUS eye.
To make it our study to build up our
profession, and cause it to be obeyed and
respected, is, We hope, the object OF US all.
By frequent intercourse, by uniform OBJ
servance of the rules which form the char
acter Of intelligent, honorable medical
gentlemen, we will, no doubt remains,
make rapid advancement il all that con-
stitute our profess ion the first among men.
When we reflect, and see what scientific
discovery has done for it within the last
forty years. we viii have just reason to be
proud. The dogmatic errors of the SO
styled fathers Of physie have been swep t
away. AL things useful have been kept.
We have looked upon the "gathering Up
Of the fragments that remain, that moth
ing be lost The eccentric Magendie has
revolutioniz"d physiology. In our OWE
country, Dalton, Draper and Flint have
done the same. Indeed this has been !,
cycle OF rational and experimental dis.
covery. Blind faith YVES flung in the
ditch. The iYnae,s 2'dti0zis and OF rational
experiments, took bolder hold on the
minds of the profession. Animal chemis-
try, anatomy Of the infusorin became Oh
jects Of study. Comparative anatomy ex-
tended everywhere its dominion, and from
it sprang the most startling results. Have
we not cause to glory in the Art of our
adoption. It grasped steam, when steam
in mechanics was a mere myth, and made
it subserve its behe5ts. It travelled to the
Arctic sea with Parry, with Franklin and
Kane. 1t explored the Rocky Mountain
range with Humb0lt. It assembled to the
skies with Guy Lussac 1t has been on
every battlefield of the world. It has been
in the pest house everywhere that know
ledge was to be gained, misery to be allie
waited, sickness and sorrow to be removed
Let US be jealous to advance it's interests
by our virtue and our intelligence. Let
the people see its perfection. Our in
dividual transgression of its code car
never touch the dignity of the profession.
It is shaped too much like Divinity.