The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-24
Wj1IIj s;agle
A FASHIONABLE HEALER.
How Doctor Must Be Born and Live
90 BE Celebrated in Chicago.
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60 BE Celebrated in Chicago.
Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, May 13.-I cannot write about
doctors, naming them, because the fra
ternity holds that to be quacking of a sort
to bring calamity on the people; neverthe-
less, the success Of a doctor, these times
(when nobody believes in doctors till he
gets the grippe). mustbe subject Of value.
Let US suppose there be twenty doctors
In one building; how comes it that one
doctor will write more prescriptions than
all the others together? The answer Is
Success" but nobody can define the an
swer. The best thing we can do then IS TO
describe this exponent Of success in Chi
cago, noting those things wherein he diff
fers from the ordinary doctor.
In the very first place he is good look
ing man, decidedly He is SO good look
ing, too, because he is so deeply affected by
my affair when [ call on him. He can re-
member how my baby smiled the night
my larger daughter was taken with mem
braneous Group, and that was two years
ago. He gives off hope out Of his beard
Memorandum three: AdoctOr should have
q fine beard, and should spend money on
it. In the second place, this doctor was
born to his trade. We might think he
would be on the outlook for sick people,
but far from that! He finds time to go to
church to hear his friend preach. The big
pastor ascends into a frenzy, leaves a gap
in nature with his roaring and elocution.
The doctor is delighted Magnificent
lungsl Correct actiOnl Extended inspira-
ticnl All these ideas i'll that doctor with
the only happiness he knows. a patient
who has long lease of life, all signed and
sealed in a clear eye, logical brain, good
skin-that is the patient the doctor can
cure-tha1 is,the patient TO haveI Give to
such a sufferer dose of electricity out of
that beard, cheer him up this week, keep
him in mind, and there IS a patient forever.
The other doctors may cure the sick-if
they can. They may tell the sick how soon
q cure may be effected. too. Credit much
of the enigma, success, then, to q born
skill in diagnosis. The well are welcome.
They viii never seek another physician.
In the first place, there Is in this doctor
an eager oourtship of the profession. Has
1t a new machine, a new analysis, a new
medicine, then let us try them all. Is there
a surgical operation to be performed? Let
us seek the c0mmissicn-for $500 if we can,
for nothing, If there be no money; but the
operation, and not the money, Is the thing,
and surgery Is really a science. Again,
when the people are all the time waiting in
an anterOOm s O'Clock is none too early to
be at the Office, nor is o'clock too late to
leave-not for home, oh, 10! but for house
calls all over Chicago, twenty miles apart.
What bent Of nature is that which de-
votes this man TO such a ifel There he
stays within those hot operating rooms,
where the average temperature is S. degs,
steam heat, and she only recreation he viii
have today viii be the call Of a friend at 2
O'Clock, who viii go out to lunch with the
doctor. As they leave the Office together
materfamilias and her-daughter appear in
the hall, inquiri1g if they must wait while
he eats-as if doctor should eatl And
there are ten others in the anterooml
From morning until night he bows to the
patients, and at each salutation he gives
thanks that he IS a doctor. The neighbor-
ing doctor with ten patients a day-the
doctor whose professional honeymoon is
OveT-comes to feel glad that he is not a
fashionable healer. Atlast the good neigh
Tor comes down stairs and warns the healer
that he IS rapidly killing himself. 1t ex-
haUsts the Observers brain to dwell upon
bne Ss~CIIiCcS WHICH ILlS lover Is making 10
his mistress
in great house, with two maid servants
and a coachman, the wife of the doctor and
her sons and daughters lead the hermitic
life. Papa, the doctor, may be home at
midnight, or not at all. If he come home
SO late as midnight he must have his sleep,
or he viii break. If he get or for business
at 7:3O a. m he must rise at and be at
table but a few minutes
On Sunday, however, he will have day
of rest. He win not begin his calls Sunday
till 9 o'clock, and sometimes, az when he
goes to church, till 1880, so let US hasten
from church to dinner!
This programme for three years; and how
many patients did he run through" yes
terday2 Eighty! And cheerod every one
OF them more than any other doctor to
whom they ever paid feel How much
money did he make last year from his prac-
tice? Over $50, GO. Now, is he fortunate
or unfortunate TO be a natural and fashion
able healer? JOHN MCGoVERN.