Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-03-09

human skill can do, yet those he serves
are not satisfied. He takes into account
the patients constitution; his or her con-
dition before stricken as well as the con-
dition at the time called. He has noted
the slightest change in the patient; the
inroad of the disease in every feature has
been traced and treated as skilifully as
might be; he has employed all the best
remedial agents known in the materia
medica )" has given time, and self, to the
case, unremittedly, only to be told at
The eleventh hour" "we've decided to
try some other DOCTOR or a counsel is
called. Often the second physician
reaps the benefit of the excellent treat
ment of the first, and the patient grad
ually or rapidly RECEIVERS, according to
the disease and the severity of it. OF
course the patient, and the patients
friends, are delighted, and too great
things cannot be said in favor of the new
physician. Do they think of the anxious
hours of the one first called? the weary
miles of travel, if a country doctor, and
depression attendant upon their lack of
confidence in abrupt dismissal? l fear
not.
Before going further, it would be we'll
to con 'ider the wonderful things done in
medical science, and what the discover
les and tests cost. Would you or | ex-
pertinent with our own system, our vi
tally, to substantiate given or antici-
pated theory Hardly! Smallpox would
not have been robbed of it's terrors, if
left to us to test the vaccine virus upon
ourselves neither would we have demon
strated the life-giving principles OF cleo
richly, or the pain annihilating effects
Ut ether, chloroform, cocaine, or the
more recent treatment by electrical ap-
planes, directly to the seat of the dis
Ease, as termed electrolyss. Other in
ventiOns, in the various scientific schools
are for the saving of labor; the applica-
ion of science in the school of medicine
s for the saving of life and lessening
he amount of human suffering. The
developments In this dire ction do not
lessen the labor or the responsibility OF
the physician; not at all. 1t serve to,
increase materially his labor, his care
his anxiety and Intensity his study. Il
was hard enough when the physician
carried in his saddle bags the drugs re-
quired, but to-day a p prescription is pre-.
pared for each patient and must be legi-
oily correctly written out for the Phar-
nacist.
If patient is suffering from causes
requiring hospital treatment, the family
physician must prepare the system t.
'ndure the treatment; must bull up and
fortify the weakened and impaired con-
stitutiOn to combat disease. The physi-
clan always in serious cases apprehends
fat Al termination, and in one sense is
handicapped, for he tries to make every
effort tell in the direction Numerically
opposite and keep the patients courage.
aud that OF his>friends, up to high water
mark, through the care lessness Of nurses.
and attendants, often incompetent, sudden
changes In outdoor and indoors temper
AZURE, and the injudicious babbling of
hosts OF friends who mean we'll, but
do i'll.
l make these things plainly abrupt,
peI hsps, but the fact that all who serve a
vast company, In whatever capacity, are
In great measure undervalued, and es-
p ecially in the case of physician. How
many people like to defy the quarantine
so far as personal immunity from con-
tagion is concerned? Yet the physician
does; he goes willingly where neither
priest nor professed friend will follow.
The priest may enter to strive the pass
ing soul the friend TO obey a deathbed
summons; the phv sician is the constant
and faithful attendant up to the hour of
dissolution. From the painful travail of
ife's beginning to its agonizing or peace
full close, as the case may be, the physi-
clan standsa friend andhelper.
Do you hear people say they are get
ting rich" they are growing well-to-do! !,
That "they earn their money easily?'
so they are rich, In the numerous conf
dences, sad and often too harro ing, for
common knowledge, and yet thew are
never betrayed. Did you ever for mo-
ment consider, that one ordinary phvsi-
clans heart and memory was a vast CIV
elopedia of human sufferiugs, and
human sorrow? How do you think a
physician feels when attending a patient
suffering from extreme poverty, as well
as some form of painful and lingering
disease needing the delicacies that a full
purse will only admit of, knowing that
the one suffering would rather die than
let the want, the condition of utter des-
titution be known? He sees such in
community of working people, aud his
ready sympathy is usually made TO serve
the suffering.
l have heard more than one eminent
physician say that of all men the doctor
was the most generous; and it is indis-
putably true. H. gives service whenever
called upon, even though he knows
that not penny will ever reward him.
Don't worry; if you are not able to pay