News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-06-09

IA 1 know It must be grand thing 20
walk iItelligently through the avenues of
human life and with anatomic skill poise
yourself on the nerves and fbers which
cross and recross this wonderful physical
system. l suppose a skilled eye can see
more beauty even in 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
profession havel DIR. Rush used to say, in
his valedictory address to the students of
the medical college, 'Young gentlemen,
have two pockets-a small pocket and
big pocket; small pocket in which to put
your fees, large pocket in which to put
your annoyances.
Doctors Sacrifices.
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 lozenges and bore
hound candy until Sabbath! morning
comes, and then they say, 81 must have a
doctor" And that spoils the Sabbath
morning church service for the physician.
Besides that, there are great many men
who dine but once week with their fam
lies During the secular days they take
hasty lunch at the restaurant, and on
the Sabbath they make up for their six
days abstinence by especial gormandizing,
which before night makes their amazed
digestive organs cry out for doctor And
that spoils the evening church service fol
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 foothath has become virulent ty-
plus, and the hacking cough, killing
pneumonia. AS though captain should
sink his ship off Amagansett, ard then
put ashore in a 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.
Then there are many who always blame
the doctor because the people die, forget
ting the Divine enactment, 1T is appoint
ed unto all men once to die" The father
in medicine who announced the fact
that he had discovered the art by which to
make men in this world immortal HIM
self died at AZ years of age, showing that
immortality was less than half century
for him. Oh, how easy it is, when people
die, to cry out, Malpractice" Then the
physician must bear with all the whims,
and the sophistries, and the receptions,
and the stratagems, and the irritations Of
the shattered nerves and the beclouded
brains of women, and more especially of
men, who never know how gracefully to
be sick, and who with their salivated
mouth 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 restored patient, with
ruddy checks, and rotund form, to be
bothered with bill charging him for old
calo1nel and jalap. The physicians of this
country do more missionary work without
charge than all the other professions put
together. From the concert room, from
the merry party, from the comfortable
couch on cold night, when the Their
mometer is 5 degrees below zero, the doc
tor must go right away; he always must
go right away, To keep up under this
nervous strain, to go through this nigh
work, to bear all these annoyances, many
physicians have resorted to strong drink
and persisted. Others have appealed to
God for sympathy and help and have lived.
Which were the wise doctors, judge ye?