The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-03-21

wasent ftten-t to y cit. -AHd-se-
think those eight-six. doctors had bet
ter get Colonel Hammond to translate
their diploma and then learn the Eng
hsh by hssrt.
Professor lane gave the large au.
dienea- O. Eare treat-a combination OF
wit and wisdom that only Charley
Lane a make up. He rested his
manuscript on an hour-glass about -four
feet high, and all his serious, scholarly
thoughts were there, but ever and amor
he stepped to the front and illustrated
his wisdom with humorous anecdotes
that kept his hearers eyes open, and
their mouths, too. He was hard down
upon patent medicines. and told how
Yacob Straus got up "a nostrum and
hired a fellow to certify This is to
certify that | lost Il of my eyes and
two of my legs in the late war, and
using six bottles of Yacob Strauss
medicine my blind eye come again and
so did my legs" Openheimer had a
drug store, too, and patent medicine,
and when he saw the certificate that
Straus had gotten up he hired a fellow
to certify some, too. 81 certify that |
was unfortunately born without a liver
or lights, and suffered untold miseries
until took four bottles of Openhei-
mer's medicine, and now / have as
good a liver as anybody and electric
lights."e
Professor Lane advised the doctors
to use common sense in their practice.
and said 1T was not called common
sense because 1t was common, but be-
cause it was commonly needed.
Then we had a beautiful ~valedictory
by DR.. Park, and the presentation Of
medals by Rev. DR.. Anderson, and last
Of all the boys called DR.. J~onston, and
then the benediction closed the enter
tanning exercises. | was Illuminating
about these doctors /; how many would
succeed and how many wouldn't :. how
many would take to drink and go to
the bad How many would drift away
from parental moorings and become
agnostics, or skeptics. or infidels /
thought how much depended on their
skill and kindness, and how the loves
and hopes OF fathers and mothers was
conferred IN what the doctor could do
for the child or some loved member of
the family. They say that doctors get
hardened to suffering. Maybe they do,
but they ought not to. If | was a doe
tor | would make a show of tenderness
and sympathy whether l felt it or not.
1t goes IL long ways with the sick and
the suffering, and with the family.
How much depends on the doctors
skill i'll saving life eau never be known,
but a friend of mine in New York told
me that a very eminent surgeon said
to him some years ago, ~ am lespon-
sible for Grover Cleveland's election.
If it had not been for me he would
have been defeated. That man Bur-
chard who made the speech about
"Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" was
about to die from kidney disease. He
for me as a last resort. | cut him
open in the back and took his old re-
publican kidney out and cleaned it and
put it back again and sewed him up,
aud he got well and made that speech
that drove the Roman Catholics away
from Blaine and elected Cleveland.
Don't you see hat if | had made a mis-
take i'll my diagnosis, or a miscut with
my knife, Burchard would have died
and Grover would have got left. Eth I"
Aud there was that poor man Gar
field, the president, whom the doctors
An eminent surgeon told me
he was probed to death. They
hunted for the ball for three days, and
bored new holes with their probes until
he was lacerated all through, and for no
good. He said that pistol balls did no
to stay in a man, that they be-
incisted, and it was better to let
them alone than probe for them, and
that the present practice in London
and Paris was never to probe, but let
nature go to work ut once t 0 heal the
wound. Garfield would probably have
lived if they hadn't probed him, and if
le had lived Harrison wouldn't have
been president, don't you see? But
can't get along without the doctors.
They are our comfort and security by
lay and by night. They are our hope
our trust in times of affection and
Then hurrah for the new doc
.ors. May they live long and prosper.
t is q long ways to the goal of their
lmbition, but they must have patience
f they would have patients.
BILL ARP.