Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-03
DR.. MAcKENZIE'S FEES.
Their Great Size Made the Poorly
Paid German Doctors Jealous OF
the Scotchman.


Their Great Size Made the Poorly
Paid German Doctors Jealous OF
the ScotchmaD.
man who is connected with the govern
ment OF the United States, and who spent all
last winter In Germany, talked to a New
York San man day or two ago about the
personal characteristics Of Sir Morell Mac
kenzle aud DR. Won Bergman, the rival ply
siclans OF the Emperor Frederick.
IL know Mackenzie and Bergman WE'LL"
lie said. al have been interested In the con-
troversy on that account Mackenzie Is a
spare, shrewd, Pawky, and thrifty Scotch
man. His manner Is decidedly professional.
BY this mean be has a more or less siereo-
typed smile. speaks with great exactness, and
displays a studied air OF urbanity. When he
went to Berlin the German doctors took a
tremendous dislike to him for a reason
which, / believe, has not thus far been
prlnted-the amount OF his fee for attending
the emperor. The charges of the German
doctors are exceedingly moderate. Men like
Hovel, Hartmann, Sweininger, and Krouse
charge from to marks visit. IL total
stranger should walk into any of their offices
he would receive the best OF treatment at the
VA AuO Iul olNlau1 nnCu NC
started to go the fee would probably be less
than 81. Hen OF similar fame In the United
States unhesitatingly charge from $40 to $50
a visit. In England the regulation fec
is 2 guneas, or $40, for the first visit. and
guinea for each succeeding visit This is the
fee received by men like Cumberbach, Cam
eron, and Others. When Mackenzie
went to attend the Emperor at Char
lottenburg he placed before the powers
that managed the financial affairs OF the i'm
perial household a schedule of his regular
earnings in London. He stated that the fee
from the emperor ought at least to counter
Balance the sum that he was losing In London.
These hgures Of Mackenzie's were subsequent
ly endorsed, and lie received an enormous
salary, considerably over 81, 900 dav at the
start, and nearly $1,000 toward the end of the
emperor's illness. An income of 81, 900 r day
10 German physician is a dream beyond the
widest fancy OF avarice, and, when they saw
that an Englishman was receiving more than
all the German doctors put together, the
commercial spirit OF the kaiser's people was
aroused In autagonism to the shrewd alien,
A great deal OF secrecy was always maintain
ed about the remuneration of Sir Morelf
Mackenzie, but the facts leaked out, never
theless. IL may have been true that Macken-
ze's services were worth In the nelghbor hood
of 81, 500 a day, but the Germans did MOI.
think so. l have often been at Mackenzle's
house, near Cavendish square, in London,
and do not doubt that his income must be
close TO $4,000 year from his practice in
the British metropolis. The house is literally
crowded with people from the moment his
office hours begin until they close
Contrast with the splend opulence OF
Mackenzie the surroundings of the German
doctors. We will take Won Bergman. as he
Is the most eminent of them all-Ess been
surgeon in-chief OF the army, and charges US
much as any OF the crack German doctors He
lives In a floor or fiat overlooking the canal In
the Wilhelm strasse in Berlin. lie has a
short, bull neck, square shoulders, a heavy,
'dark-bearded face beetling brows, and thick
set, bulky frame His skill is unquestioned,
and so is his rouGhuess. Probably The man
lfancies that he has a military manner, but in
point OF fact he is exceeding brusque aud
rude at times.
81 shall never forget the first time called
on Bergman l had sent him letters OF In
PRODUCTION and received a curt note In reply
to come around on the following day. man
servant ushered me into the reception room,
where woman lay moaning on a sofa, with
her husband or escort standing over her, and
trying to soothe her by words Of affection.
The woman had received grieyious 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 mao cried
constantiy-she from suffering, he from sym
patty. DR.. Won Bergman 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 ex-
allied than doctor-and beckoRed me 10 come
10 his room. / pointed to the CRYING woman
on the sofa, and said that | would wait until
he had treated her, as she appeared to be in
agony. He jerked his head peremptorlly and
pointed to the consul ting room, and walked
In as had been hidden. Then lie beckoned
to the woman, and the man assisted her into
the room. She was q most pttiful sight. The
doctor glared at her In n surly manner, and
said:
"Whst have you been dolngl"
1.-THE woman was moaning aud paid no at
tention to his question; but the man said that
she had fallen asleep the night before. after
forty-eigbt hours OF wakefulness, and, In
turning, had wrenched the banaages loose
from her arm. He asked Won Bergman to
wrap the arm 10 again, but the doctor threw
open the door and waved them out.
Take her 10 the hospital be said, and
have one of the students do 10; have no time
now TO practice the OF surgery
'The man said II would be too late at the
hospital, and then Bergman told him 10 wait
until the next day, and slammed the door in
his face. 1t was most cruel aud heartless
proceeding. for skilled surgeon like Berg
mann C ould have managed the matter In
few minutes. / soon saw, however, that his
manner was more or less assumed, and we be-
came we'll acquainted within the next week or
two. During that time and throughout my
subsequent stay In Berlin the German doctor
talked with the utmost freedom about the
eoings.on at the palace In Charlottenburg,
and abused Mackenzie fercely at every Oppor.
tunity."