Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-08
The English Physician.


Perhaps there would not be much risk in say
ing that the medical profession as whole. is
more alive than the clerical to what is new In the
conditions under which the work has to be done
A man can hardly be a good physician without
having considerable native share of scientific
ability; and he should also have much of the
artists sensibility to FORM color and expressive
motion. The physician, besides actual accom-
pllshments which he is likely enough to have
quite outside his vacation, is often the most
agreeable and well-infOrmed man Of the world
in his very large circle. And everything con-
spires at present to compel or invite the widen
ing OF his horizon. To he really good physician,
man must be a psychologist. This does not
mean that, If he finds in a case of insomnia
no obvious cause for the patients disorder he
should ask the unfortunate man whether he has
anything on his conscience. embeZZlement for
instance. 1t is well known that Lord Eldon.
when plain John Scott, elOped with the lady
whom he married, and that they were lovers
all their lives. While it was yet very early
days with them, young Mrs. Scott fell i'll in
a strange village, and the local practitioner
was sent for. Having. after the usual routine,
failed to make out what was the matter with
this beautiful lady, he said; I'm afraid. ma am,
there is something on your mind? You are not
happy with your husband?" This was bad prac-
tice. Mrs. Scott had much spirit and natural
eloquence and there was nothing the matter
with Mr.. Scott. who was both tall and athletic:
but the muse will not sing the dismissal of that
doctor. The anecdOte only illustrates. in pass
ing, the sense in which the physician must not
be psychologist.
The TERRIBLE FATE OF JENNIE CRAMER.-Dr.
Durell Shepard. Of New Haven, testified in the
Malley case yesterday morning that the appear
ance of Jennie Cramers body showed il had
been in the water from three to six hours IL
was not much water-soaked or bloated. The
inside of the hands were whitened and soaked;
three hours in sea water would produce this
result. bloOdy-iOoking fluid came from the
mouth and perhaps nose. The doctor thought
the girl was not drowned, and was virtuous no
to few days of her death, not to exceed three
He insisted that great violence had been used i'm
accomplishing the ruin Of the girl. Juror Henry
w. Painter, NJ D., cOrrOborated the statement of
DIR. Shepard. He thought the body was dead
when placed in the water. He also stated that
he had not written a letter to Blanche Douglass
but identified the letters which were produced
by the corOners jury, written by James Malley
to Jennie Cramer.
FATALLY INJURED.-Alex. Grey of Allegheny
City, one of the wardens of the western peniteri.
tiary. received fatal injuries on the Pennsylva-
MA railroad at Leaman Place, near Lancaster
yesterday morning, dying several hours later
During detention of the tram he stepped Off
and in endeavoring to get on again was thrown
under the wheels. Mr.. Grey was on his way to
New York to meet his wife, who was returning
from Europe.
GREAT FOREST FIRES IN MIcHIGAN.-In East
Saginaw, Port Huron and other places i'm Mich
igan the prolonged drought and the fires which
have ragged for some days have caused great loss
of life and destruction Of property; villages and
hamlets have been entirely destroyed. and the
suffering among the people is represented as
truly appalling.
THE Boy WHO KILLED HIS SIsTER.-The case
Of Geo. Hoover, the lad of thirteen who shot and
killed his sister Lottie in May last, was tried at
Sunbury, Pa, yesterday. The trial occupied but
q few hours, as all the important witnesses-the
boy mother and sisters-refused to testify and
left the city. The commonwealth did not push
the case, and the jury acquitted the boy of MUIR
der but convicted him of manslaughter. His
sentence was deferred. Counsel for the defense
gave notice to the court that they had some evil
dence which they wished to present to mitigate
the boys sentence
ALMOST AS Coop AS DINE NovEL.-At
Underhill, Vt, last Friday night, two lads went
up Mansfield mountain trout fishing and spent
the night in a room on the second floor OF the
halfway house, which was otherwise empty.
During the night they were awakened BY the
sound OF some animal scrambalng In at lower
window. Then came sounds Of scratching and
gathering on the floor below, and then upon the
stairs. Thoroughly alarmed, and having no
weapons but pocket knives, the boys now
sprang up and drew their bed across the door to
bar the entrance. The creature came to the
door, and, after shutting at the cracks, endeav-
ored to push it open. The boys crowded the
bedstead against the door with all their might
but were in way to be oTerpowered when
finding their voices, they shouted loudly st the
intruder He took fright ut the shouting and
scuttled down stairs and out at the window
The morning light showed scratches on the door
and window casings, and outside the window
the plain tracks Of 3 bear I'm the soft EARTH
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