Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-20
THE GRAND OLD MAN.
What . Doctor Has Done for Him and What
He Might Do for the Doctors.

What Doctor Has Done for Him and What
He Might Do for tho Doctors.
It must be inte, esting to inquire, says
the London Hospital how it is that Mr.. Glad
stone, although 81 years of age. has shown
himself capable of leading a political con-
test in which he has taken the most active
part without injury to his health, and ap-
parently without experiencing great or even
inconvenient fatigue. From inquiries we
have made, we believe Nj. Gadstone's as
| tonishing robustness to be due to
three causes: q sound constitution which
| he has had the wisdom to husband and
protect; q devoted wife, who has allowed
nothing to prevent her from giving the
closest continuous attention to the we'll
being, preservation ana protection from
| worry of her husband; and the fact that
thanks to grateful patient OF the London
Hospital, Mr.. Gladstone's health has been
| committed to the medical charge of physi-
| clan. Sir Andrew Clark, than whom no one
is better qualified, by high scientific attain
ment and sound common sense, to shield
man of affairs from the many risks
| which have in, past times frequently cut
short the career of eminent statesmen.
man is, after all, very frequently his own
physician althou IN it has been said with
patients. Still, no medical care can equal
| the precautionary measures a man can take
where his own health is concerned. All OF
US need everyday not too much, but at the
same time enough good food, and an ade-
| qtate time in bed and asleep, sleep being
| the rock on which many men go to pieces in
| these days of hurry and rush.
Now, to be certain of securing sleep, it is
| essential to take each day sufficiency OF
| outdoor exercise, so that the system may
| become physically tired. Hence, MIR. Glad
stones love of tree-felling has probably
done more than anything else to conserve
his wonderful staying power. In such mat
ters as diet and sleep, and any one normally
sound in health, who attends TO them, Is
nearly sure to be free from serious
| illness, each Of us ought to be capa-
BILE Of adequately providing for him.
SELF In the case OF ordinary mortals
a few simple precautions will secure that
exist, seeing that life is not to live, but to be
we'll. All this Mr.. Gladstone has discovered
and learned to believe, and so he has come
to be to-day phenomenal instance OF the
of Mr.. Gladstone have devoted themselves
to their fathers interests for years. Every
ns so Mr. is Tss1atsa sSe mnnum tn
worry, and he is saved from all avoid
able fatigue. If work is wanted to be
done. there are always willing hands free to
undertake and complete it, without delay
or rcmonstrance All correspondence is
carefully sorted and weigh and none but
busy days. Mrs. Gladstone's solictude for
ana care of her husband is a notable ex-
ample for all wives, and to her care Mr.
Gladstone has often attributed his escapes
from illness, and not q little OF his con-
tinuous good health. Yet Mrs. Gladstone
never neglects her other duties. We can,
Gladstone, at the very busiest time OF the
year, has most cheerfully and efectually
aided the hospitals by her pen. while her
convalescent home at Woodford is one of
the most economically conducted institu-
tions in the world. !
The Premier of the British Empire has
little time to think of himself or his own
health and requirements. The strain upon |
mind and body is truly appalling to those
who have precise knowledge of the duties |
and responsibilities of this high office of
State. So the duty of conserving and main
tanning the health of the head of her Maj |
esty's Government is by no means light one;
but Mr.. Gladstone's condition to-day proves |
-tnat Sir Andrew Clark is facile prineps. |
The physician in charge of such a patient |
has to look after the regime, diet. exercise
and hours of rest, to see that there is no un- |
due strain in any one direction, and to ex- |
ercise sufficient tact to win his patient to |
like the ways, which in his case tenu to the |
continuance of sound health. All this and |
much more Sir Andrew has successfully ac- |
complished in Mr.. Gladstone's case, and |
the credit of this remarkable success must |
be shared by Mrs. Gladstone, to whom Sir |
Andrew would be first to acknowledge his |
Indebtedness. l@s
It is now certain that Mr.. Gladstone will |
once again become Prime Minister of Eng |
land and head of Her Majesty's Govern
ment. He owes, under Providence, that |
position to-day in no small degree to the |
causes we have been considering. One of |
these causes, the services which medicine |
renders to the State and to all its |
leaders and governors. we commend |
to MIR. Gladstones most generous and |
earnest consideration. 1t is great |
honor to be Prime Minister, but it is even a |
greater distinction to be Prime Minister at |
81 years of age, probably the first example |
of the kind in history. II medical science |
has had aught to do with Mr.. Gladstone's
position to-day, and who can doubt that it |
has had much, what higher duty can de-
volve upon him as Prime Minister than to
mark his assumption of office by advising |
the Queen to at last do Justice to
medicine by creating at least two
medical peers. Sir William Jenner |
and Sir James Paget, physician and sur
Seon respectively of worldwide reputation,
have personally well deserved the honor |
and the medical profession would be en-
nobleu by their selection for it. This is one
OF those social reforms which press for i'm
mediate solution. Is Jenner or Paget less |
worthy OF lie peerage than the eminent
men who now sit on the bench of Bishops,
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