Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-06-12

ments IN tic days when the barber used
to carry through the streets of London
DR.. Brockelsby' wig, to the admiration
and awe of the people, saying: Make
wayl Here comes Dr.. Brockelsby's
wig" No; announce these things not
only to increase the appreciation OF
laymen in regard to the work of physi-
clans, but to stir in the hearts of the
men of the medical profession feeling
of gratitude to God that they have been
allowed to put their hand to such a
magnificent work and that they have
been called into such illustrious COM
pany. Have you never felt spirit of
gratitude for this opportunity? Do you
not feel thankful now? Then, l am
afraid doctor, you arc not Christian
and that the old proverb which Christ
quoted i'll his sermon may be appropri-
ate to you, Physician, heal myself. "
Another reason why think the med
ical profession ought to be Christians is
because there are so many trials and
annoyances III that profession that need
positive Christian solace. I know you
have the gratitude of great many good
people, and I know it must be grand
thing TO walk intelligently through the
avenues of human life, and with ana
tonic skill poise yourself Oh the nerves
and fibors which cross and recross this
wonderful physical system. l suppose
skilled eye can see moro beauty even III
malformation than an architect can
point out in any of his structures,
though it be the very triumph of arch
and plinth and abacus. But how many
annoyances and trials the medical pro-
fession have DR.. Rush used to say i'll
his valcdictory address to the students
of the medical college, Young gentle
men, have two pockets-a small pocket
and big pocket, small pocket IN
which to put your fees, a large pocket
in which to put your annoyances. F"
IN the first place, the physician has no
Sabbath. Busy merchants and lawyers
and mechanics cannot afford to be sick
during the secular week, and so they
nurse themselves along with lozcnges
and horehound candy until Sabbath
morning comes, and then they say, II
must have DOCTOR. And that spoils
the Sabbath morning church service for
the physician. Besides that, there are a
great many men who dine but once O
! week with their families. During the
secular days they take q hasty lunch at
the restaurant, and on the Sabbath they
make up for their six days. abstinence
by especial commanding, which, before
night, makes their amazed digestive Or
gans CRY out for doctor. And that
spoile the evening church service for
the physician.
Then they are annoyed by people
coming too late. Men wait until the
last fortress OF physical strength is
taken and death has dug around it the
trench of the grave, and then they run
for the doctor. The slight fever which
might have been cured with footbath
has become yirulent typhus, and the
hacking cough killing pneumonia. AS
though captain should sink his ship
off Amagansett, and then put ashore in
d yawl, and then come to New York to
the marine office and want to get his
vessel insured. Too late for the ship,
too late for the patient
Wise Doctors. = p
Then there are many who always
blame the doctor because the people
die, forgetting the divine enactment,
at is appointed unto all men once to
die" The father in medicine who an
nounced the fact that he had discovered
the art by which 10 make men i'll this
world immortal, himself died at At
years of age, showing that Immortality
was less than half century fer him.
Oh, how easy it is when people die to
cry out, Malpractice. " Then the ply
stefan must bear with all tho whims,
and the sophistries, and the receptions,
and the stratagems, and the irritations
of the shattered nerves and the becloud-
ed brains of women, and more especially
of men, who never know how graceful
" to be sick, and who with their sail
waited mouths curse the doctor, giving
him his dues, as they say-about the
only dues he will in that case collect.
The last bill that is paid is the doctors
bill. 1t seems SO incoherent for re-
stored patient, with ruddy cheeks and
rotund form, to be bothered with bill
charging him for old calomel and jalap.
The physicians of this country do more
missionary work without charge than
all the other professionals put together
From the concert room, from the merry
party, from the comfortable couch Oh a
cold night, when the thermometer is
FIVE degrees below zero, the doctor must
90 right away-he always must go
right away. To keep up under this ner-
vous strain, to 60 through this night
work, to bear all these annoyances,
many physicians have resorted to strong