The Red Cloud chief., 1897-02-05
CLEVELAND TO DOCTORS,
The President Addresses t',e Now YorA
iraicmy OF Medicine.

New InHk, Nro. 1.-The occasion oil
the celebration OF the scmi.ccntinniaI
OF The New York Academy of Medicine
ut tarncgi' hl.l last night was made
suspicious by the presence of President
Cleveland, who arrived in this city in
the early evening. The President was
invited to attend the celebration 10y
DIR. Joseph ID. Bryant, who is president
of the academy and also Mr.. Clevc.
lands private physician.
The feature of the entertainment OF
the evening was, of course, the address
Ivy President Cleveland, which excited
considerable merriment and good feel.
ing. Other addresses were made by
President Bryant, DIR. ). $. Purple OF
New York and DIR. Lewis A. Sayre.
MIR. Cleveland said in part:
"ln confcssing that | have no right
TO even standing within the inner
circle of the profession. | have boldly
and without the least authority de-
termined To speak to you us II repre-
sentative of the vast army of patients
and laynen.
AT the outset, / desire to remind
you that you I'VE us much. Though
largely in the majority, and with
plenty of members To spare, those who
are well conducted among us do not
vex you with hurtful competition. In
stead of making life hard for you by
al observance of the laws of health,
we assist you by indulging in all sorts
of Irregularities. We are obedient and
submissive to your commands-that is,
when we are sick, and we sometimes
pay YOU bills even after a recovery to
health, which we are always certain
would have resulted without your in
reference.
at may be this seems to you an ac-
acknowledgement SO much your due as
to be hardly worth making. You
should, however, value it because 1t is
sincerely made by those who were not
born yesterday, but who hold in last
ing and tender memory the ministra-
tions of the village doctor of fifty years
ago, and are now the living monu-
ments Of his faithful care. lie, too,
alleviated suffering and saved human
life. We know hat it was not given
to him to see the bright lights that
now mark the path of medicine and
surgery, but you cannot convince us
that he CROPPED entirely in the dark.
We remember with adherence his
every-ready lancet and the sears of his
ci'ct Acubu ~ SNS ~
hold.
1--WE endure with complacency the
recollection of the awful medicine
case, containing bottles, powders and
pills, which, whatever might be
thought of them now, seemed then to
be sufficient for all cmcrgcncies-to
say nothing OF the tooth pulling tools
and other shiver-breeding instruments
sometimes exposed to view. IL he was
ignorant of many of the remedies and
appliances now in use, he in n large
measure supplied the deficiency by
hard headed judgment, well observed
experience and careful nursing. Be-
sides, 1t was in his favor that he did
not have to bother his head with many
of the newly invented and refined dis
eases hat afhict mankind to-day. He
had no allotted hours for his patients,
but was always on duty; and we knew
the sound Of his gig as it ratified past
In the night.
Your ways are better than his; but
we desire you to regard this admission
as all the more valuable because II is
carved out Of our loyalty to our old
village doctor, who brought us through
the diseases of childhood without a re-
lapse, who saved from death our par
cnts and u brothers and our sisters
in many hard combats with illness.
II who, when vanquished and forced
to surrender, was present in the last
scene to close the eyes of his dying pa
tient and sympathize with those who
were present