Wichita eagle., 1888-05-04

eeeds from your work and not from your
/ talk.
Speak the truth, and nothing but the
truth in your reports of cases
True physicians make only true reports.
| or no reports at all
| Do not sQuaEder precious time in acrid
| controversy with Your neighbor physician.
Be always gentleman and you will
| never transgress the code of ethics
h-Thou shalt read the current
medical literature and thou shalt write
thy experience and discoveries
Ignorance in our time has no valid ex-
euses at all Opportunity of education IL
offered to every nan, woman and child,
/ and once the rudIments OF IL mastered,
education and learning can go on uninte--
ruptediy 10 the end. of every ones life. The
channels through which learning i con-
yeyed TO the human mind are various. but
al present one in particular should not he
I ignored but utilized to the fall exteut Of
| its value. Reflective reading Il the 2rea.-
est instructor the ablest teacher OF our
age. Through the great perfection ia the
art of printing the literary works OF the
creates men of all times sre brought
within the reach o. all WHO wish 10 learn.
I True enough there Is - much inferior
matter printed that a selection of praiits-
bic reading o suit the requir, m-nts Of the
{ individual must lie made wtth greatest
care. The acquisition OF good JudS-
ment in the selection OF reading matter
5 IS OF such Importance th8t it should form
4 main object of school e4iucSt o't To teach
! pupils 10 select for themselves ter leav-
ing school or college the riget socks and
papers for their general or special edaca-
ton.
TO the physician medical books and
journals are his mental bread and meat.
his tonics and stimuiaut>, bis every day
companions which uonIish. invigoFatS
and guide his never failing search after
Z means 10 lessen the evils o. human life
/ Yet other scientific books aiu papers are
also necessary to vary the menu and uoi
cause a neauseous state Of mind by Cuu-
tinuous reading OF MEDICAL worAS aud
papers only.
Writing no less than reading Is a duty
of every p. y iciau. Reading Tor his own
benefit, wrsung for the benefit of the pro
fession-
If we have not done 80 in the past let ~
commence now TO write chemical reports,
especially malignant eases and synd them
TO our joun' i Tor pa lysttiou True AZ
CITRATE, scientific chemical reports advance
more our knowledge of therapeutiCal
agents, their merits and dement's than
anything else within the whole rank Of
medical study And by the light of this
knowledge tae physician of the future will
discover FAR better WAYS and means yet
than we know AT present TO Restore health,
even in cases which we are wont 70 call in
durable
N-Thou shalt not Kill myself when
thou curest others.
That Is what | mean saying: Do not
Kill yourself when you cure others; be care
. iul, expose yourself no "a more than
necessary. apply disiui,sj g, rot only for
the good of Others hut for YOUR own pro
lection. And IL you have reason Ia believe
that contagion may attack yourself. do not
fail 10 take also a preventative medicine 81
destroy the susCeptl DilIty TO coutagion Ia
your system or TO aSsimiiate its dormant
germs. The same medicine which cures
contagious disease will act a. a preventa-
tive when taken in sufficiently strong doses
to make a perceptible impression ON a
healthy system. wish every practitioner
would test the truth of this principle. for
If experience proves il 10 la a general law.
then we HOmoepathists are Just 80 far su-
perior TO the other schools in representatives.
as we excel them in therapeutics