The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
FOUR DOCTORS TALES
Told During Recess at the Worlds
Fair Medical Congress.
Science, Romance and Psychical Expert
ence Interestingly Intermingled
with Therapeutics.

refusing TO attend a man who had been
injured in a street accident, unless some
one guaranteed the fee. The man said
to have died from delayed attention.
This thing of charity treatment is one
of the most bothersome questions phys-
clan in a big city has TO contend WITH
said the doctor. There are thousands of
people in every big town who attempt to
get through life without paying for any
thing, and doctors are their prey. 1t costs
money to purchase bandages, anaesthetics
and such things. A doctor must live as we'll
other people. Patients who can pay
won't pay, and it is no wonder that doc
tors become aggravated now and then. But
l draw the line, however, on the methods
adopted by doctor in my neighborhood.
teamster came to his Office with vicious
cash on his forehead incurred in fight
The fellow could hardly walk from loss OF
blood. He wanted the cut sewed up. The
doctor asked him if he had any money.
The fellow said he had 50. The physician
went to work and sewed up the cut When
he got through, after an hours hard work,
he asked for his fee. The fellow drew out
so cents and offered it to the doctor, saying
that that was all he had. This so enraged
step back into the chair. The fellow unsus-
pectingly did So The doctor grabbed him
by the throat with one hand, and with one
cut of his knife reopened the wound. This
was a barbarous act, entirely unjustified,
and while doctors must have money, such
conduct merits the greatest censure. The
doctor who committed this act of gross re-
venge has fully suffered for his folly in his
loss of patronage and standing"
'.More or less romance creeps into a
physicians life." said DR.. Allan Turner, of
Cincinnati. eve become, like the priestly
CON facciopoI tho rooipientS of oil manner Of
secrets, and some of them would blast
many happy home should they become
known to the world. One Of the saddest
scenes 1 remember was a girls denial
of her mother when the latter was lying
under the physicians knife in a big hos
pital The mother came to us suffering
from an incurable disease, and she was
plainly told that the operation which was
about to be performed might cost her her
life. The gray-haired old woman was asked
If she had any wishes or communications to
make before passing through the ordeal.
She asked us to stay the operation for
short time, and for two days she lay upon
her couch evidently engrossed in heart
rending thought Tears would roll down
her wrinkled old face and her form would
shake with convulsive grief. Finally she
motioned the ward physician to her bed
side, saying she had a secret which she
wished to contide TO him. and on which she
desired his judgment.
with broken voice she told the follow
ing story: When young country girl, her
parents told her that the time had come
when she ought to think of earning her
own living. Her father was a small farm
er, and her life had been one of hard work.
Still this had not prevented her from de-
veloping into a rosy-cheeked, buxom coun-
try lass, and with cheerful heart she began
work as domestic in the home of then
leading statesman. He is dead, but his
name will so down upon the pages OF our
countrys history az one of the greatest fig
ures of the late war. Living in the house
tot hrnt mo- n
about thirty-siX years, who had left his
wife and family. The brother was a bold
dashing sort of fellow, thoroughly unscrup-
ulous, and his eyes were soon cast upon the
fresh beauty of the country maid. He ac-
complshed her ruin. The girls condition
began to be apparent. The statesman
learned of his brothers indiscretion. There
was a terrible row. But after the first
scene it was determined to keep the mat
and a girl babe was born In a few weeks
it was taken from the mother and given
into the family of most respectable people,
who agreed to take and raise Ii. The child
grew up into handsome and accomplished
woman in entire ignorance Of her true
birth. Her foster parents were cautioned
never to tell her the secret, and they never
did. Through means supplied by her real
father she was given splendid education,
and eventually married a prosperous young
lawyer of Kansas City. During all these
years the girls true mother earned a liveli-
hood by mental labor.
Having told this story, which, from her
evident life of suffering, had become a do
nestle tragedy, she tearfully asked the ply
scian what ought TO be done. She did not
want to die without seeing her child and
having the truth known. We all had but
| one thought. 1t was nothing more than
| right that the mother should have the
| privilege of seeing her own child. Physi-
clans have a hard way of looking at these
| things, and the fact of the daughters So
| cial position had little weight with u.s. We
| band, giving him an inkling of the situation
and requested his and his wife's immedi-
ate presence in Cincinnati. The day came
| when mother and daughter were to meet
| for the first time in twenty-three years.
| The daughter was brought to her mother
| bedside. The physicians were gathered
| around, and at the request of the mother
| who even then did not dare to look at her
| daughter, DR.. Evans briefly told the story.
AS he went on a look of horror came into
| the young woman's eyes. Her hands trem-
the doctor touched upon her illegitimate
| birth she gave q choking cry of rage and
| tried to spring upon him as if she would
| The husband. though apparently also
| half daZed, restrained her and she sank
half fainting into his arms When the doc
| tor concluded and asked the young woman
| if she desired TO say anything to her moth
| er In private she raised herself up. With
| tremulouS old form lying on the couch and
| almost shriekingly cried:
| What. that woman my motheri Never
| Never. Never She is an impostor II is a
| LEA cruel lie. horrible lie. I never will
| believe it, L Will not nowledge her to be
! my mother. Take me away
1.-THE mother died the next night She
| never uttered q sound after the awful
| words of her daughter, and with staring
eyes sank slowly away"
| Yes, / firmly believe in mother marks u
| said DR.. j. NJ Parks, of Hot Springs, Ark
| az have had the truth of the theory brough,
| forcibly to my attention in many instances
| My own wife bore mark given to her by
| her mother. on her right arm, below the
elbow one Of the principal veins was dotted
berries were laid in row. The vein, wher
| pressed assumed a strawberry hue MY
| wife's mother. in accounting for this freak
| said that, previous to my wife's birth, she
| had an intense desire for strawberry wine
| which she was unable TO crafty for a Ions
| time The peculiar marking was, no doubt
| the result of this desire"
Il know or q more remarkable case thar
that" remarked DR.. j. ID. Stewart Of De
| who was born with his left hand Off at IN,
| wrist. The young fellow is very sensitiv,
| about his deformity, and it was not unit
| after acquaintance of several years tina
he informed me CT the cause of his mis-
fortune. He said he did not know it him
when his father told him. His father saiC
| that the young mans mother. when newly
| married, a great reader of light litera
| ture. Shortly previous TO his birth the IA
| nous story of The Hidden Hand was APP
| pearing as a weekly serial. The front pag
| off at the wrist. The mother became s,
| wrapped up in the narrowing tale that sh
| thought of IL night and day. The impress
| sion wrought its consequences when tn