The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-03-20
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1855.
STORIES ABOUT DOCTORS.

illOT DlttST cplSTUn. WIS Ine
ablest as we'll as the most popular
physician of his day, and his magni-
ficent requests to Oxford have kept
his memory green in ours. 1t was
for practical knowledge and quick
perception of disease, which to
slower minds appeared like magic,
rather than for great learning, that
Radcliffe was famous. Unreiined in
manner, coarse and scurrilous in
language, with wit that spared
neither friend nor foe, and with a
bluntness that treated King and
Commoner alike, he reached, not
outstanding, an eminence which, if
income be a test, no English physi-
clan had previously attained. 1t
was he who, when the Court physi-
clans were divided in opinion, at
once pronounced the disease of
which Queen Mary died to be small
pex; it was he who bluntly told
King William he would not have His
Majesty's two legs for his three
kingdoms it was he who, when the
Princess Anne sent for him by
messenger, who described her symp-
toms, exclaimed with an oath that
her distemper was nothing but the
vapors; it was he who told her
when Queen-for much as Anne dis
liked him, she was forced to send
for him-that Prince George had
been so badly treated by the doctors
that nothing in the art of physic
could keep him alive more than six
days. Patients were never allowed
to entertain delusive hopes by Rat
cliffe, yet his reputation was bound
less, and his fees are said to have
amounted to twenty guineas day,
an enormous sum, considering the
value Of money two centuries ago.
Long before his death, in IVA, he
was worth more than 100000. AS
an illustration of the generous fees
he obtained, it may be mentioned
that for going to Namur in 1896 to
attend to Lord Albermarle, with
whom he remained a week, Radcliffe
received from William iii. f1,200,
and from Lord Albermarle himself
400 guineas and a diamond ring.
Such fees, however, noble as they
are, seem inconsiderable when COM
pared to the lavish treatment of DR..
Dimsdale, the founder of we'll
known clearinghouse in the City.
For successfully inoculating the EN-
press Catherine at st. Petersburg,
and her son the Grand Duke, he was
rewarded with the rank of Baron of
the Empire, Councillor of State,
with pension of $500 per annum,
and a present in money of f12 900.
DR.. Mead, the friend of Pope, is
known to have had a professional
income of from five to six thousand
guineas for many successive years,
10 and in one year he received as much
as seven thousand. The elder DR..
Warren, who died in 1897, one of
the most popular Of men, and the
fayorite physician Of his time, real
lied nine thousand year from the
time of the Regency, and bequeath-
ed to his family about one hundred
and fifty thousand pounds. DR..
Baillie's income for many years
ranged from nine to ten thousand
and Sir Henry Halford's professional
income, from the death of DIR.
Baltic to the death of William w.,
when his attendance on the Court
terminated, is known to have uni
formly exceeded ten thousand, and
was not infrequently more than
eleven thousand in the year. DR..
Chambers, who succeeded to the posi-
ton in public estimation and in pro-
fessional employment which had
been SO long occupied by sir Henry
Halford, had professional income
ranging for some years between
seven and nine thousand guineas,
but he never exceeded, it is believed,
the larger amount.
DR.. Hope, if we remember rightly,
said that London physician could
not fairly make more than rs, 900 a
year. DIR. Williams has lately told
the public that in no year did his
income exceed $1,000; but there
are great prizes in the profession
still, and we read of a popular ply
stefan of the present day, who on
two occasions received thousand
guineas for going to Pau, and fee
of fifteen hundred guineas for visit
ing patient at Pitlochy, and re-
naming there for week.
When in the hurry of great bust
ness, when his days work, as he
used to say, amounted to seventeen
hours, DR.. Baltic was sometimes
rather irritable, and betrayed want
of temper in hearing the tiresome
details of an unimportant story.
After listening with torture to a
prosy account from lady who allied
so little that she was going to the
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