The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-11-13
THE MINER.

Doctors and MisaRthrOpe Doctors
are dainty; miners are muddy, dirty; doctors
are lofty; miners low; doctors wear tight ct.
ting kids on their hands, miners wear scars;
doctors have airs that correspond with Their
KID gloves and superfne clothes and highly
scented perfumes miners have habits that
SAVIOR Of darkness and noxious vapors and
powder smoke doctors condescend, they
jump of their pinnacle Of dignity to look Al
the wounds and snatch fee from the dirty
miner, whose wounds be leaves others tC
dress miners are helpless, when they are
laid up with wounds; doctors dart into q
miners house, hum and haw, write pre-
ScriptiOn, give some byief directions, then
dart out again; doctors delight in being
brief short visits are closely associated
with long bills, which are not as agreeable
as doves bills. They willsvisit you once a
daV or once a week, or once a month not
being governed so much by the nature Of
your injuries or sickness as the length oil
your purse Doctors call theirs profession
we call it business money making fee
taking business. When doctors put off their
coats and work al a wound it Is working at
a profession /; this they don't do above once
a year, therefore the business Is tie rule, the
profession the exception. We glory TO see
the profession the business may be dis
pensed with by others without any incon1
venience. There is much dignity in q doc>
tors Latin prescription NJ. d. means some
hing great. The solitary letters smack OF
monopoly. They form a barrier that keeps
the people off. This barrier encloses much,
earning; Latin and Greek, and may bq
French and Spanish, and German and Italian
snd-never mind what else Of the Languages
besides. Chemistry and pbysic are pref
sumcd, il not understood. Chemistry anGs
physic have common sense about them NOT
much display. The dead languages-which
are the learned Doctors delight-havs litt!s
sense but much display The doctor use.
hcm to coufound people with. He is aboUs
ss simple as a compounded lawyer in tina
respect lie is too profound to be understood,
You admire and reverence his profundltt.
Right or wrong the Latin prescriptions mut3
DC respected and well paid for. Plain Ene.
hsb, or something else that everybody uis
derstands, will not be so much appreciated
People are fond Of relics and foreign tongut Is
and people buy these Of the doctor.
During the suspension there were fen
wounded miners; there were no street tights
nor broken skulls, therefore there were few
dcctors fees. Suspension is not good ~
doctors. People get fresh air and keep veg
This is spiteful Of people if people cannst
live altogether on air, they cannot live at ~
without il. When fresh air makes people
well II encToaches on the privileges Of TIC
doctor and he drugger. A due prOportiin
Of oxygen II the air Iobs the Doctors " 1e
q her tounces. For this she casts daggtks
attic suspensIOnists, for hounces are as dear
To her as her babies. Doctors keep tgo
horses enc making the mile in twc-forT
the other IS a hack. the former is spared
for the rich patient, the latter is used il slG
poor patient business. twill not pay to
use high priced hoTsefesh for the wounded
miner who may he lying at the brink 60
death
From what has already been said the dbc
Tors business consists Of two parts, Gh'
most important Of which is the acceptaect
of tees, the other the writing of prescription.
Latin, Greek or Hebrew or hieroglyph Hs
which are all the same to the patient. 'sht
healing business, liz should be professicA,
may be said to consist of two parts too sht
external dressing part and the internal dr. is
Ing part.
There are those v ho attend to the healing
paIt in almost every colliery village. These
are experienced men aud women, men And
womer whom the doctor deigns to use, kui
whom be heartily despises These pec3le
are well thought Of by the miners families
they are looked on as benefactors and pail
anGbrophists. shall call them misanthro tes,
and proceed to show how this quality aIe-
velops itself in them. They sometimes N IKE
u+guln live in sfifa NJ hon. 81 0pd IF flkoiV
injuries. This is the essence Of malignlty.
When a poor miner Is brought home "a O
stretcher, black as the coal be has been Dat.
ung, end bleeding rapidly 10 death, az il
were, from his woun " with bones brC Ken
ard bis senses astray, be il received and lat
lacked BY these misanthropes Sharp stis-
sor- in their nimble fingers cut of his clotses
k-Ivrs cut off his boots, stimulating ind
uourlshing drinks are poured into the fight
ing mans stomach, the blood running fIom
tile wound il staunched sponge and warm
water are applied to remove the coal auSi
and clottcd blood the external flesh wo Ind:
are dressed, 10 which liniments and bind
ages are applied. In clean calico the sooI
sufferer is laid as comfortably as possible or
sick mans couch or into his bed.
II the case OF broken bones, all thing{ are
got ready for the application Of the docFor's
sphnlers, which are implements our misan-
thrOpe docs rot often m1ddle with, beirs, nc
bone. setter. So much to the doctors cfedii
We will say be will pull of bis supet6ne
coat, bare his delicate arms by dOubin4 w
tbs shirt sleeves, pun Of his kid-skins sand
with his dainty barred fingers, jerk the Horc-
ken bones into their PAGES or amputale =
limb, when 1t has been smashed up be4ond
Ill e.
must credit him also with the stitching Of a
wound aud the passing Of an opinion t-on
which he places much mystery sing
internal injuries. But 1T me r, fleet THAI the
opinion may not be worth much after all
it may be worse than none. Except Those
not unimportant items Of duty pe:f rmld by
tie Doctors own dainty fingers our 70 Esln-
thTOpe is lelt in charge Of the wounded mi
ner, with whom misanthropes watc4 by
night and by day, when cases are fbad.
Mining communities are made up Of nj san :
thrOpes therefore, their sympathy with
each other. | mention this fact 80 Rat I
shall not be suspected Of Partially or itatte-
~.
But to return to the wounded whous you
will often see the mlsanthrope feedingEwth
a spoon, or holding the refreshing drought
to his lips. If our misanthrope is a wsmaD
50 much the better so people think. ]
think so too, that in many cases s &c is.
You will see her watch hours by the bed
side Of the sufferer, tanning him and doing
violence to the fly that dare to ihvadh the
rights Of her sacred charge. She appears
never 70 sleep. She will watch the motion,
listen to the breathing, the signing and
the grooming taking alarm al any unesual
SOUND or movement, as an engine driveR does
at any strange noise or movement he ears
or sees about his machinery. Size viii re.
new the wet cloth to the ievered forehead
and place the weared panied limbs IS H.
easiest posture. She will watch any ouslv
the fingers Of the clock, as they turn q n q
hour and minute that mark the tine r. H.
medicine TO be given aud the lnimentito 10
renewed.
10 cases Of severe burnings, whese the