The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-03-04
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STREET TALK.
BY Don.
Law AND PHYsIt

DAE HAS DtCAi putting ~ u ltN SiAAiANf Wv
looking up; but Bolus has been in a jower
and a sour, and not at all in a good way.
I was thinking on the subject, as l
stood alone on the Bank corner the
other morning, when old Uncle Jimmy
came along.
The old man is getting a little more stoop
to his back, and his knees give a little, as
he walks and the old chap il losing grip
in his fiippers; but he doesn't lose any
points in his talk, and his old eye takes in
the situation, with the precision of a Cap
tain. AS the veteran came up, he remarked:
"Say, yOungster, what are you doing
here on this corner, buzzing around the
web of the Golden Spider?"
well, Uncle Jimmy, | wish | could
make the Golden Spider believe | was a
good fat fly, and worth taking into his par
lor. am quite well disposed to be taken
in by a Bank; however, it is probable that
a Bank is likely TO feel taken in, when it
gets hold of n newspaper man, as 1t may
get more bullying than bullion from him.
But Uncle Jimmy, l was just now rejecting
and mOraliZing on the condition at this
time in Honolulu of the two great profess
sions, that are ever ready to bill and pill us,
The Bar is putting on a new gloss, see the
broad plate, and the golden signs around
US; whereas each medico is pounding
another in his mortar"
"This happens natural enough, Don. The
bar is gregarious like wolves, that hunt in
couples. Men who live upon other mems
q~uarrels must keep peace among them
selves. They know there is profit in BROTH
erly union, as David of old recommended,
with a promise of a blessing. You remem-
Der the psalm, Don, don't you, which you
repeated many a time at Sunday School"
40, yes, Uncle Jimmy. This is what
David said: 'BehOl how good it is for law
yers to pull together. Then fees flow like
oil upon the beard.'"
"Don't attempt to parody Scripture,
young man. The words of David are fine
and applicable"
"Behold how good, and how pleasant it
is for brethren to dwell together in unity ~
eyes, Uncle Jimmy, and Davidson is
profiting thereby. Lo and behold he shineth
forth in n new front, and splendid plate
glass. And look upon him Oh the other
side, who is a Castle builder; doth he not
put forth a resplendent shingle of crystal,
upon which are inscribed golden characters
of the Land of Sinim, inviting the wayfar-
ing Heather Chinee to walk in, and be
taken in? And regard Bickerton, who
knows no pickering tone; as he d%iscourses
blandly on Bench, or at Bar; he has his
reward, in a nobby new office, that inspires
| a client with a feeling that it is q privilege
to drop in there and pay a fee. And thus
the law is looking up new, and prominent
quarters everywhere, whilst the medicos
take Jack offices, and quarrel over the
bodies of the sick"
"Well, Don, Physic is not gregarious like
law; but inclined to be solitary; and like a
certain beast of prey, wants to watch and
snarl alone over carcase. The Law has
its statutes, and it's clearly recorded prece-
dents; but Physic has the illimitable realm
of experiment. A lot of opposing lawyers
in a suit will look up for each other the
precedent; or lend each other the necessary
law. But a lot of medicOs on a case de-
nounce each others physic."
That's so, Uncle Jimmy. DR.. ROperto
says that DIR. Pike is rottIng the peoples
bones with tons of potash and DIR. Pike
may retort, that DIR. ROperto has drenched
tn. land with bushels of ambitious pills.
Now, amt it lucky, Uncle Jimmy, that the
Doctors don't harmonize; as the combined
forces of potash and purge would utterly
swamp u.s."
Lucky indeed, Don, that Doctors should
disagree, when their only object is to dose
and charge; but it would be more lucky OIL
fortunate, that men whose profession and
duty is to be healers of men, should be
united and harmonious before men. If any
brethren should dwell in unity together,
surely they should be the medical brethren
.,Io~a .n,o uyOrIy IL 70 II y-a tho II yvac IA
fellow beings. Every true worker in sucl
a cause should gladly accept helpers and
every one qualified to work in such a cause
should be ready to help any one who haC
already taken a lead in such work"
"Ah, Uncle Jimmy, you are inclined t.
believe in a medical millennium. But {
doctor regards a practise, or a hospital il
hand, like q miner does a claim, which n,
don't want any other doctor to jump. 1t i
not a question with him of how many live
there may be saved in his institution, o
round of practise; but how much none.
there is in it."
"But hold on, Don, you must make som
exceptions"
"Of course, Uncle Jimmy, there are eX
ceptions, we rave them before US. We sc
the difference between a doctor with bi
emOluments who drives patients away iron
an institutions; and a doctor with a bare liv
ing who crowds an institution with throng
of anxious health seekers. One wants hel
to share the throng of p~atientsi and tn
other don't want help to share the emolu
ments. It's lives with one, and dollar
with the other"
"But how pleasant and blessed for then
and this little Kingdom, Don, if sucn me.
dwelt and worked in unity together. TIL
blessing spoke by the Psalmist would com
to them. Their unity would indeed b
like the precious ointment upon the head
and not the nauseous physic in the belly
Even as the dew of Hermon, and as tn
dew that d~escendeth upon the mountain
so would be the unity and harmony of tn
doctors, working for the healing of a poo
and suffering people. When that take
place, then the profession would arise an