The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-19
lie Was Thirty Years Physician
to the Queen.
EARNING FAME AND FORTUNE
His Great Skill and Profound Stu dy.
Strong sonality-AmuSe
ment-Appetite.

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maps the most notable figure in the
medical profession Of this country, says
d London correspondent Of the New
| York Sun. He started life as the son
| o. small innkeeper, and in his med
| ical student days was terribly poor
But when he retired from active work
some five years ago he had filled every
post of honor, open to a medical man;
for more tha4Fhirty years he had been
the Queens physician; he had been
created successfully. a baronet, X. C.
B. and G. c. B., being the only physi-
| clan to whom thts last honor was ever
accorded; he had earned the reputa-
ton of bsfg the best teacher of med
icine of his day, and for many years
his professional income had averaged
from 100000 to $4,000 a year.
Jenner's fame was greatest with the
men best calculated to appreciate him,
the members OF his own profession.
| He has left comparatively little in the
way Of medical literature behind him,
| but one title he certainlA has TO uni
versal honor. He established the es-
sential difference between two diseases
which offer many points of superficial
resemblance, typhus and the so-called
Typhoid fever.
Immersed as he always was in his
professional work, Jenner had little
| time for other pursuits, and felt but lit
| tie need of them. On one occasion
when the subject OF amusement was
under discussion at his hospital, Jen-
ner Joined in with the remark:
amusement! Ny amusement is path
| illogical anatomy" For him the sub
| ject was then exhausted And once,
when his audience at lecture was small
| lCr than usual, and it was suggested
that some of the absentees might have
gone TO the Derby, Jenner replied:
The Derby! When l was a student
| 10 more knew when it was Derby
| day than when it was Trinity Sunday
Jenner was essentially strong and
self-reiiant man. He attended the
| Prince Consort through his fatal ILL
ness, he vas the Prince of Wales doc
| tor when the heir to the British throne
had so narrow an escape in 1872, and
he also went to Darmstadt and re-
manned in attendance upon the Prin-
cess Alice till she died. To practice
medicine in the fierce light that beats
rlpon a throne is not calculated to les
son the physicians anXieties; and one
who knew Jenner well once ques
toned him on this point, and limited
that his possibilities must some
times be sufficient to render sleep or
rest impossible.
Sleep" replied Jenner in his char
acteristic way. Il don't think that
anxiety about a patient ever kept me
awake five minutes in my life. 1 go to
bedside. l do my best. What more
can l do? Why should l not sleep?"
Interest Is SO general in the system
of living pursued by men whose lives
are prolonged beyond the normal span
that it may be worth while to say
some thing of Jenner's method. He be-
gan work early in the morning, often
making appointments for consultation
at s o'clock. His morning he would de-
vote to. patients who called upon him
at his own house. He would begin at
9 o'clock and allow to each one a
quarter of an hour and sometimes less.
The time was regulated by a clock in
front OF him. He always used 10 say
that If he could not get to the bottom
of a case in tel. minutes he never
would. At quarter to he would have
his Notwithstanding very simple
and a cup of tea. Then he went off on
| his roanlS Of consultation, and always
had his tea sent to him. He took t in
| his carriage. Sometimes he would be
out until 10 p. NJ, and would dine wnen
he came in, drinking a couple of more
cups OF tea, and the last thing bsfJre
retiring, between il and u o'clock, he
would have more tea. He was a great
tea Grinker and very abstemious, never
! taking any st-n.Ulant except a meas
urcd glass of brandy when he had in
digeslIOn. Once, for that cause, he
lived on stewe3 chops and rice for
| luncheon and dinner, with tea, for a
couple OF years. but ordinarily he was
n great feeder.
y recouecc," says his friend, DR..
/ Cooper Bentham, Ion one occasion
REYNOLDS came to see him. Jenner was
at dinner. lie had had soup, fish, the
greater part o. a chiCken, and he was
in the middle Of a huge rice pudding
when Reynolds entered and asked him
| how he was. Jcnner drew a pitiful sigh
and replied, ! am not at all welI-no
Iappetite. "
Jenner was I'd smoker, and had no
hobby or recfaative resource outside
his profession Of any kind. He invar-
iably refused society invitations, and
says Dr. Benthar1, his power Of COM
handing sleep was marvellous