The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-19

than they do their underclothes,
with the result that "too many
cooks spoil the BROTH" 1t is hard
ly necessary to say the cooks
don't get paid. 1t is the common
lot of all physicians to have such
experiences some time or other
during their professional career,
and those with quick perceptions
and fine nervous organizations
suffer the most from the base and
cowardly ingratltude and often
attrocious conduct of these mis-
creants calling themselve human
beings ana claiming a common
humanity with us. 1t takes about
ten years, observation to know
and understand the "dear public
for whom and among whom we
labor and about twenty years to
have fair knowledge of human
nature as it presents itself inside
and outside the sickroom. There
is no profession so charitable or so
ready to give its services away.
The physician if properly APP
preached will never say "no" any
where and every where that his
services are needed. In an emerg-
ency he is there, binding up the
wounds of the injured or minister
ing to the wants of the sick, in that
hour of peril he is as brave as a
lion, prodigal of his labor and skill
and as kind as sitter of charity.
This PROFESSIONAL gentleman is
ever alive to the appeal of the
needy, and always ready to relieve
a fellowbeing pain. There is a
saying among the people that Gall
good doctors drink" that if
patient is fortunate enough to
catch the doctor sober, his case will
be speedily diagnosed and recovery
rapid.
1t is not an universal proceeding
for several sick people to be on the
lookout for the doctor, as at
the period the mind is in a forma-
tive state and like the elements, in
nascent condition, eager to form
new combinations and liberate
latent force.
At this transition stage his touch
has healing influence, and the
words that fall from his lips are
charged with potency and promise.
The triumph Of the physic an is
complete when after his patient is
dead the family speak of him with
respest and esteem. Death drew
them closer togather, and now
binds them, as it were, with hooks
of steel. Their loved one was too
good to linger long here below.
He was called away to fill a
measure of usefulness beyond the
vision Of our grossness, but only to
realize the fruition of our hope
Happy is the physician who can
! multiply these experiences, for his
: yoke is made easy and his burden
light.
. HIS PERSONNEL. The personal
qualities of the physician are
always to be reckoned with on the
balance sheet of success or failure
his magnetism, his ability to at
) tract or.repel in short,al the details
items and attributes that make uI
his PERSONAL. This will not con
sist of a strained and awkward eff
fort on his part. The versatile and
, dashing physician has neither the
nor time the disposition to pore
ever cumbersome tones and consult
authorities on medicine topics
Who can blame him for wanting
none of them.
1t will be seen later he is a law
unto himself, and higher law. He
has the genius or INSPIRATION to
' distinguish between conditions and
determine before hand and antici
pate the qnality of fatality.
! How II AFFECTS HIS SUCCESS
Some physicians fail who are thor
oughly equipped. They presses
all the elements of success, but un'
. able to controle or TO utilize the
! force that is in them, they are over
= whelmed and destroyed. Others
fail because they had ideas and ex
pectations of easily and suddenly
acquired wealth. The medica
schools are to a great extent re
sponsible for this sort of failure
) They hold out great expectations
to The aspiring medico, and Otter
fill their catalogues with glitterine
! genersli.ies, which speedily evap
= CRATE into thin air. In his haste t.
> acquire wealth and fame, he failed
to acquaint himself with the diff
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