The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-15


tleman who sought his advice upon the
question of exhuming corpse for exami-
nation. A fearful suspicion had crossed
this gentleman's mind of poison admins
tered by the nurse for motives which he
presented in foTcible manner. The case
was not prosecuted because 1t was discov-
cred that other parties might have had &C
cess to the medicines, but the suspicion re-
NAMED. Nurses receive large pay, ranging
from So to SO and even $40 day, and for
this their employers have right to expect
suitable attention. Nursing is very trying
business. 1t requires watchfulness and
tact, great patience and, above all, sense
Of duty such as few possess. A first-class
nurse is rare character, and should be
highly priced.
CLOSING SCENES IN LIFE.
The last acts in the drama of life alford
employment to multitudes, and when one
enters the precincts of sickness and death,
we are brought into contact with almost a
new world. Here is the apothecary whose
plate glass, porcelain gallipots and enorm-
Gus rents are to be paid out of tax levied
on the sick and dying. The New York
apothecary differs from all other tradesmen
in this point-his aim is not so much large
sales as large profits. New York druggists
contrive to subsist on an incredibly email
amount of trade, but many apothecaries
add medical practice to their business,
which can be very easily done. This facil-
ity is sadly illustrated by the case of a
German tailor who suddenly exchanged the
goose for the lancet, and put up the Escu-
lapean sign. Being called to look at a
case of skull fracture, be put on plaster
and said the patient would recover. These
facts came out at the coroner's inquest,
which followed in few hours.
ITEMS OF COST.
The sums paid for medicine would be as
tonishing if one did not consider that so,
900 invalids are to be supplied. Then look
as the high price of some specific remedie
This is an enormous business, for qusck
preparations generally sell largely, The
consumption of medicines in this city is es-
tmated at 100000 annually. Some
parents have passion for giving medicine
to their children, and will not employ q
physician who does not dose literally, and
this weakness often leads medical men to
practice an innocent deception in prescrib-
ing AQUA pu,a and bread pills for these insa-
table drug eaters. Nobody is more gulla-
Bile than sick man, and new remedy will
charm away his last dollar. AS proof of
this we need only refer to the fortunes made
by Brandreth, Moffat, Townsend and Aver,
to whose millions are to be added sums
spent for advertising, which form the tax
levied on the struggle for life.
PARTIAL INVALIDs.
In addition to the estimate given above.
there is large class of men who, while
pursuing their daily duty, are conscious of
the presence or the approach of disease.
Could our physicians books be exposed
before the public eye, we should find very
few healthy men past the age of forty.
Among our working invalids may be ciass-
ed, with very few exceptions, the editorial
body of this city, class whos9 vital forces
are drained to fill the lamp OF knowledge.
Our opulent merchants, our great lawyers,
our leading financers, our money kings,
our stock autCcrats, are mostly under the
doctors hands. These men in many cases
are kept up by treatment until the cord is
suddenly snapped by excitement The
sudden death of the merchant Huntington
Gust announced) is but one in the series Of
this nature. Business men are unable to
recover tone even by their vacation, and a
number have already returned to take their
chances of life or death.
INTEMpERANoK.
This invalid condition of our community
il one reason of our increasing intempe. :
ance. 1t is idle TO conceal the fact that al
most everybody drinks. | have stood in a
restaurant down town and seen our best
young men take their bourbon day after
dsy-hard drinkers even at 20. Most of
our business men drink; our lawyers
drink; in fact, who does not drink?
HEALTHY GLASS.
The healthiest people in this city are our
physicians, which is explained by the fac'
that the neglect of the laws OF hcal,li,
which they see in others, leads them ia
caution, while their daily rides in one ct
the best safeguards against illness. TIE
next class in point of hygiene, is the letter
carriers, who are out all day on their mail
errands and who derive from this exercise
a benefit which compensates for their small
| amount of pay.
EXCISE FACTS.
Speaking of the liquor trade l may add
that being recently near the police head
quarters l noticed building bearing the
sign "Coroner's office" A vast crowd sur
rounded the door, and | at once supposed
that a murder had been committed. On
making inquiry, however, of the policeman
| in attendance, | was informed that the
| board of excise was in session in the same
| building, and that these were applicants fol-
| license. Many of their customers fall
| eventually into the coroner'a hands, and
hence the propriety of this conjunction OF
offices was very apparent to
THE HERMIT OF NEW YORK