The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-03-12
DIFFERENT DOCTORS.
physioians of the Radical and Mys-
tical Schools.
Their Methods In the Treatment of Their
Cases, and Personal Bearing Toward
Their Patients--Physiclans' Faith
in Themselves.


Their Patients--Physiclans' Faith
in Themselves.
Not the Regulars and the Homeo-
paths. Discussion as to their respective
merits is quite as much out of place
nowadays as a heated argument on the
claims of Calvanism and Arminianism.
People hold their medical faith at the
present day, through no exercise of the
reasoning faculty, but by sheer pig
headedness. as tho old theologians were
wont to hold their dogmas; and they en-
tertain toward patrons of the opposing
school. whatever it be, contempt COM
pared with which tho ''odium theolog-
icum" is as brotherly love. The two
schools. to wkich refasanco is now to be
made are not recognized in the cyclope-
dias nor among the professions; but they
exist all the same, and the limo which
separates them is drawn clearly and
sharply across all the old medical sects
and 'pathics"
There arc all sorts of good names for
these two classes of the medical faculty,
writes Arthur E. Bostwick in the New
York Saturday Review. We may call
them tho Recondite and the Familiar;
the Mystic and the Frank; the Grandlose
and tho Simple: or the reader may
choose o new designation to suit him
self The physician of the former
school or class bears the same relation
to his patients that an oracle of old did
to it's suppliants. His utterances are
positivo-often monosyllabic. His man
ner leads you to conclude at once that
he knows absolutely what ails you
at o glance, or at least by the
aid of few skillfully directed
questions. His bearing is commonly
high and mighty; II he descends to
familiarity it is only too evident to
those about him that he is conscious of
the vastness Of such descent. Some OF
the most skillful and able physicians
in the various branches of the profession
are numbered in this class, and it is not
to be denied that the effect of their
bearing upon q certain kind of patient
is beneficial. Some people like to have
authority exercised over them; they
like to feel that they arc in the hands
of one greater than they, who holds
over them the wand OF life or death,
ana by twist OF IL can XIII or cure
Ihey 90 not waht 10 KNOW wnac tney
are taking. IL they are told aught
about their ailments they wish it to be
done in tho most learned language pos.
sible; the more Latin the better. Pa.
Iiehts "' tnis oi"ss "r' iarsoiy Vi VI.
gehticr Sex o"I pien.y Vi 'ue so'oaiioo
s'erher sex arc eo,oe iounu IN ''s rahhs >
Inc oth'r hchooi Vi iieuicihe acA now
ede'S' 10 start w,th' tnal physlciah n
rarely certain III ms aiasiosisi tna' ut
must USUALLY 'Aperiuieh' ii'''e
hrSe' nc ''i'' ''ia p's'eh' az ,, .no o''.o
all NJ khowS "t the case, oo'iiies 'n'
prosi" 'iVe treat"ene' WIN al i's pos
sioii''ies Oh onahse' anu IN SNORT ''Ke'
inc pa'icht ihto ms conhdehce. III
manner IL iree from grandelr' authorit
or Hys'icis'h, anu MS iahs"ase ~ co'
ioquia' anu simple. ,
IL IL "isgraco 10 ehe human race-
puo WE si'aii oc 'ofoeu W a1'hto i1-'na
ior prooaoiy the majority Oh pa'lent I
this kihu oi trcatii'eh'' carrieo u II
logical eha' Will NOT 90 at al
only man ot ihe greatest goo
sense comoineu with hish educa
uoh ana hoefai culture can prom
py inc cxtrcmo variety OF th's urea
meht' ana even sucn one "hae
the pressureo oi physical, PAIN may -
yer' 10 lne conailion .. ano ma!ori', ~,
In prac'lco nioS' pnSsic'ans u W.,
. sUhooi' Iucn as many Vi ,he,i "o"'
.iAe )" oo oonsl',o,s "nu os'o"' ".
,oloou ~ auop. nai WY oo"lso' iua'
ing more OF iess lowuru .no "'Ss'ioia
"nu sra"u.t u1"oo y. ,., 'no :p oppos.. us.s
parry, sAiiilui pi,'o.''.un1r WI. o,.e :
vary hls nah''e, "hu meonous ".ooiui, an
ms pa'ieh'' 'h's aohio''hs '"e oe
nui's srn
an pi"e.i .ioo' .noro
sician, even some Of the former admi
ting the theoretical correctness OF Il