The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29
AMPUTATING A MEMBER.
M ALEX. SWEET


The medical is undoubtedly one of the noblests
professions, but Il contains many men who are not
overburdened with what Is known a. common
sence.
For instance, not 80 very long ago, - Chicago
medical society amputated member. 1t was a
very good member they cut off and not diseased
at all. In fact, the member that was cut off was
the only sound, healthy member that the medical
society could boast of But, dropping all nonsense,
q medical association expelled one Of its members
They expelled him, not because he had prescribed
arsenic instead OF gnininc or because he had COM
mtted some of his homicides while ntox icated
condition Nobody ever heard of a medical society
amputating member for any such triviality as
that.
Now, for what does the reader suppose those
saw bones cut of the offending member? For
nothing in the world except that he had put his
business card in newspaper and paid for IL. II Is
contrary TO medical ethics for doctor to advertise
in newspaper. Why there should be any more
objection 10 q doctor putting his card In a news
paper than there Is in lacking his professional
single on his offce-door Is more than we can
comprehend without some operation having been
previously performed on our journalistic brain. We
utterly fail TO discover why IL In unprofessiona
in doctor to advertise in a newspaper than Ii Is
for a lawyer or banker to do 50.
This is peculiarly singular feature of medical
ethics, when IL is taken into consideration that
otherwise there Is profession that 10 fonder of
newspaper notoriety If q of Kscuapius does
ting in order other part OF the human anatomy
that has become unhinged. We have never per-
ceved any wild, frenzied opposition the part of
the doctor to having the fact mentioned in the local
paper. There is nothing in that which interferes
with the therapeuticS chirurgical, sanitary, ana
leptc, prophylactic or any other kind of medical
ethics.
Again, 1t will be remembered that every once in
while the doctors hold kind Of ecumenicai coun-
Gil. We have never observed any attempt to
prevent the press from publishing the sickening
details. Usually one OF the doctors is delivered of
a long, salutiferous, balsamic kind of q pastoral
address, full of Latin names and less Ineligible
English about dterid medicd OF dietetics of phar-
macology, after which his object in life seems
to be to infiict 1t, as kind of a mental porous
plaster, on the reading public, through the eiium
of the local press. There seems to be nothing in
medical ethics against running entire issue of
newspaper with that kind of Free cyclopean adver-
tisement of personal and professional egotism vet
when any other doctor puts in a two inch adver-
tisement that he is authorized by law to take
human life the entire medical profession sits up
its hind legs and bowls about ethics which goes to
show that the medical profession is badly afflicted
with humbuggery as is theology.-Netc York
Mercury.
The recent damage by fire and water to the Chi
cago opera house has delayed the production OF
Bolossy Kirafy's gorgeous spectacle 1.-THE Water
Queen" 1t is being played during this the holiday
week, and like all the attractions at this theatre is
drawing crowded houses at every performance On
Monday, the 7th of January, the gorgeous and
gittering spectacle, "The Crystal Slipper" will
again return to the place of its nativity After a
thoroughly successful season throughout the east,
paraleled only by its success in Chicago, it will
return tor brief season to initiate those who have
| not seen it, and to again delight those who have
been initiated before into the mysteries of Cinder-
ella and her glass slipper. The piece will come
here as brilliant in every way when it first
opened at the Chicago opera house, with the
enhancing baliets, fairy godmother, Cinderella the
ponies, the wicked sisters, the baron and his funny
valet.
Holiday Excursions via the Monon Route.