The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-11-04
WELL-PAID DOCTORS.

do London doctors earn more than
queens counselP" As a rule they do
not, but the incomes of the three lead
ing physicians and those of the three
leading lawyers are about equal-that
is to say, at the rate of $4,000 year
each. The largest sum ever earned in
one year by doctor was 100000,
made by Sir Ashley Cooper. The three
men at the head of the medical pro-
fession in England at the present day
are Sir William Jenner, the court ply
sician, Sir William Gull and Sir Andrew
CLARK. Just lately the last-named ha.
obtained considerable notoriety. He
was induced to visit very wealthy lady
at Nice, and he received the unpre-
cedented fee of $4,000. One-ifth of
this amount he retained as a remunera-
ton for his services, and the remainder
he divided between two charitable in
stitutions connected with his profession.
Speaking of fees, there is tale told
of rich colonial gentleman living in
Kent who had the misfortune to take a
slight cold. Not satisfied with his local
medical attendant, he desired to have
Gull down from London in consulta-
ton. Gull happened to be away, and
Sir William Jenner came instead. He
was duly paid his fee of 1876 for the
visit. The patient, feeling no better,
then sent to Edinburg to leading
doctor Of that city, who travelled the
four hundred miles in order to see him,
and IN ordinary course received a
guinea for every mile, that was four
hundred guineas, or 50, 100. Again the
patient felt no better, and this time
Gull was summoned and attended.
Il suppose" suggested the local prac-
titioner, ''you will pay Gull what you
paid Jenner-f75.
Nonsense" Indignantly retorted the
sick gentleman, Il am not going to pay
Gull less than | did the Scotchman, !"
and he drew check for 81, Be-
fore he got rid of his cold he had paid
$1,000 in fees.
centric patient upon whom, in the davs
when chloroform or ether was never
used he performed a difficult operation,
from which the old gentleman recov-
cred. But he refused to pay Gull his
fees, and as the doctor left the bed
room in an enraged state, the old man
snatched off his night cap, and, finging
it at him, cried: Take that; I'll give
you nothing morer'
Gull picked up the night-cap, and,
cooling down in his broug ham, he COM
menced to rip up the lining. Concealed
therein he found a crisp Bank of En-
gland note for f1,000. This story, by
the way, has also been told of several
other eminent doctors. Gull began life
in an humble way as assistant to hos
pital lecturer at thirty-fve shillings per
week. When admitted to practice his
first years fees amounted to $135, but
he himself says that each year they in
creased by one-third. He is man of
dry humor. Once the Bishop of Derry
consulted him, and the great doctor
gravely said:
you must 60 to Nice, my lord"
"Oh, | can't 60 to Nice. I'm too
busy"
at must be either Nice or heaven, :"
was the doctors retort
''Oh, then" quickly added the divine,
IN 90 TO Nice"
81 will not question your iudoment. ~
replied Gull. ''As rignt reverend pre-
late you ought 20 know which is the
preferable II,iace."
81 Andrew Clark is Gladstone's ply
sician. He accompanied him on the
cruise the premier took with Tennyson,
and again last year to Norway. He
does not do this as personal tribute.
but as a matter of professional duty.
Gladstone is very testy. faddy and au-
tocratic. Clark is equally firm. Lady
Clark is quite incensed when Gladstone
orders her husband to spend with him
those two months of the year when the
great physician is accustomed to have
the most leisure. 1t is said that Jenner
and Gull are chosen to attend royal
patients in preference to Clark because
the latter is SO closely identified with
Gladstone.-London Cor. Philadelphia
Press.