New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
NETWORK Daily TRIBUNE, SUNDAY JANUARY a. 1857

oumbed not to disease. but TO a slow poison
administered by DR.. Hirsch. who had been
designated thus to avenge the sunerings and
the prosecutions to which the Hebrews had
Deen subjected during the reign Of His Majesty.
Leo XIII is under the medical supervision Of
Or Lappon who does not find him an alto
getner docile patient To- manage. He His
Holiness. Of course. every day. Is principally
preoccupied with questions relating To the
Pope's diet, the failure Of the digestive organs
or the Ponif being almost the only inhrmty
resulting from his advanced age.
THE KING OF SPANS PHYSICIAN
III is Dr. Candida whJ is now In medical charge
of the little King of Spain. who attained yes
terday his eleventh year. Dr. Candida sue
ceeded DIR. Redel whom the Queen Regent
brought with her from Vienna at the time of
her marriage At first DR. Riedel was an object
OF great jealousy to his Spanish colleagues
and when the Princess of the Asturas the
Queen Regents eldest child was born. his
presence almost led To- a Ministerial crisis The
queen had little confidence in the skill and
delcacy or the Spanish Court ply scians who
even To this day. have never been able to give "A
satisfactory explanation of the mysteriously sud
den and even suspicious death of Queen Mer
cedes' her predecessor. az tn consort of King
Alphonso MI. She would not hear OF being
attended by any Spanish doctor. on the other
hard. the Spanish Court physicians claimed
constitutional right TO assume charge of the
happy event., since they were responsible for
the success of the same to the nation. Finally.
after the matter had been discussed in Cabi
net council. and even in Parliament, COM
promise was effected whereby. when the baby
princess was presented by her father immedi
ately after her birth to the Spanish Court on
q golden salver in accordance with traditional
etiquette. she appeared giving her right hand
to the Austrian Dr. Riedel. and her left to the
principal Spanish physician attached to the
Court.
DR.. Sagone had for many years devoted his
entire attention to King Humbert and to Queen
Margharita. neither Of whom is easy patient
to handle the Queen being possessed of high
strung nerves. while the King. whose lungs have
never been strong persists in exposing himself
to rain and snow, especially the former. In
most countries you hear Of sunshine spoken OF
as "the Kings weather. in Italy 1t is rainy and
stormy weather that is so described.
DR.. BruZaus. the physician 10 the Court or
Stockholm. has little care TO give to the King.
who is a splendid example of phy steal condition:
but he is obliged 20 devote all his attention to
Queen Sophia. who suffers from persistent mel
ancholia and physical lethargy. which require
hll his ingenuity and skill to combat. They
late at Stockholm in Court circles that at one
time he even insisted on her resorting to house
work. such that performed by a chamber
maid in order to cure her of this peculiar form
Of malady.
Perhaps the most famous of all these Court
physicians the late DIR. Botkine. whose son
spent so many years at Washington az Secre-
tary Of the Muscovite Embassy. Dr. Botkine
the only medical man who was able to i'll
duce the late CZarina, afflicted with consump
ton. to submit to examination of her chest.
He was a young and utterly unknown man at
the time. and by his independence and dec-
sion of character i'm the matter not only
ceeded in getting her prudsh Majesty to do
what all his more eminent colleagues had pre-
viously sought in vain but likewise inspired her
with so much confidence that she retained
Tim as her physician until the end Of her life.
EXATTACHE.