The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-02

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From the Neg Yor; Sun
man who is connected with the govern
r,,ent of the United States, and who spent
oil last winter in Germany, talked yester-
dow with the writer, for publication in the
SIM about the personal characteristics of
Sir Morell Mackenzie and DR.. Won Berg
mann. the rival physicians of the Emperor
Frederick.
81 know Mackenzie and Bergman we'll"
he ssid. 81 have been interested in the
controversy on that account. Macke zie is
a snare, shrewd, pawky, and thrifty Scotch
man His manner is decidedly professional
Bv this mean he has a more or less stereo-
typed smile, speaks with great exactness
a,.d DISPLAYS a studied air of urbanity
when he went to Berlin the German
doctor; took a tremendous dislike to
him for a reason which. l believe, has
not thus far been printed-the amount of
his fee for attending the emperor. The
charges of the German doctors are exceed
inalv moderate. Men like Howell, Hart
nam. Sweininger and Krouse charge from
2 to 6 marks a visit If a total stranger
should walk into any of their offices, he would
receive the best treatment at the command
~ The physician, and when he started to
,,g the fee would probably be less
tan 81. Men of similar fame in the
I-pifed States would unhesitatIngly charge
from $40 TO $50 visit. In England, the
regulation fee is two guineas, or SO for
the first visit, and one guinea for each sue
ceedIng visit. This is the fee received by
men like Cumberbach, Cameron and others.
When Mackenzie went to attend the empe
ror at Charl0ttenburg he placed before the
movers thai managed the financial affairs
If the imperial household a schedule of his
rar1lar earnings in London. He stated
mat the fee from the emperor ought at
least to counterbalanca the sum that
he was losing i'll London. These figures
ot MackenZi's were subsequently in
dorssd. and he received an enormous salary,
considerably over 1000 day at the start
and nearly $1,000 toward tie end of the
enoDeror's illness. An income of 81 900 a
dav to a German physician is dream be-
20 d the widest fancy of avarlce, and,
ghea they saw that an Englishman was re-
ceiving more money than all the German
doctors put together, the commercial spirit
Of the kaiser's people was aroused in an-
tagoaism to the shrewd alien. A great deal
Of secrecy was always maintained about the
retnune alton Of Sir Morell Mackenzie, but
the facts leaked out, nevertheless. 1t
NAV have been true that Mackenzies ser
vices were worth in the nelghborhood Of
81 800 a day, but the Germans did not think
50. | have often been at Mackenzie house,
near CavendiSh square, in London, and do
not hesitate to say that his income must be
close to 10000 year from his practice in
the British metropolis. The house is liter
ally crowded with people from the moment
his office hours begin until they close.
Contrast with the splendid opulence of
Mackenzie the surroundings of the German
doctors We will take Won Bergman, as
ne is the most eminent of them all, has been
surgeon-In-chief of the army, and charges
as much as any of the crack German doc
tors. He lives in floor or fiat overlooking
the canal in the Wilhelm strasse in Berlin.
He has a short bull neck, square shoulders,
a heavy, dark-bearded face, beetling brows,
and a thick-set and bulky frame. His skill
is unquestioned, and so is his roughness.
Probably the man fencies that he has a
military manner but, in point of fact, he
is exceedingly brusque and rude at times.
II shall never forget the first time |
called on Bergman. | had sent HIM letters
Of introduction and received a curt note in
reply to come around on the following day.
A man servant ushered me into the recep-
ton room, where a woman lay moaning on
q sofa, with her husband or escort standing
over her, and trying to soothe her by words
of affection. The woman had received a
grievOus injury of some sort. Her arm
was in a sling, and bandaged almost to the
shoulder Her face had been cut, and was
literally decorated with court plaster. Both
she and the man cried constantly-she
from suffering, he from sympathy. DR..
Won Bergmann opened the door-or,
should have called him Prof Bergman,
for the Germans are exceedingly touchy
about their titles, and that of professor is
more exalted than doctor-and beckoned
HE TO come into his room. | pointed to the
crying woman on q sofa, and said that |
would wait until he had treated her, as she
appeared to be in agony. He jerked his
head peremptorily and pointed to the con-
suIting room, and walked i'll as had been
hidden. Then he beckoned to the woman,
She was most pitiful sight. The doctor
CARED at her in a surly manner, and said:
What have you been doingW
The woman was moaning, and paid no
attention to this question; but the man said
that she had fallen asleep the night before,
after forty-eight hours of wakefulness, and,
in turning, had wrenched the bandageS
loose from her arm. He asked Won Berg
mann to wrap the arm up again, but the
doctor threw open the door and waved them
cut:
Take her to the hospital he said, and
have one Of the students do it,; / have no
N'-4c ~" w PidCUlCc lIlt "A ID ~ VI SUI RoIy.
The man said it would be too late at the
hospital, and then Bergman told him to
wait until the next day, and slammed the
qoof IN his face. 1t was a most cruel and
FEARLESS proceeding, for skilled surgeon
luxe Bergman could bave managed the
matter IN lew minutes. | soon saw, how
ever, that his manner was more or less
ASSUMED, and we became well acquainted
within the next week or two. During that
lme, and throughout my subsequent stay
~ berlin, the German doc or talked with
,ae utmost freedom about the goings on at
ne palace i'll Charlottenburg. and abused
AacEenzie fiercely at every opportunity.
know something of medicine, and am
largely acquainted in the medical profes-
son, and | must say that, as far as Mac
EsnHes criticism of Won Bergman goes,
ne has been decidedly illiberal 1t is not so
much that he has stated things which are
hoo exactly true as it is that he has left
very many important points uncovered.
ne has also failed to do the reputation of
I me Germans justice In the field of surgery.
while 1t is true that cases frequently occur
~ which German physicians have
iaii9d in saving life, as result of their ope-
Iauons, they have exhibited a daring and
an amount of invention in surgery That is
e9e admiration Of the world. In fact, no
seuucated man in London will deny that the
nermans stand quite at the head of the
World IN this branch Of medical science, the
o opinion of single English physician to the
'onuary, notwithstanding.
The Idea that Mackenzie would be Gre
= tVq oaronet by the queen after his return