Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-04

Miss Elizabeth TrOtter, who has
been superintendent of the Ottumwa
hospital for the past nine years, cry
aptly was called upon to respond to
the toast to the new hospital building
which is at present nearing compile
ton. TITS a work in which all have
had a part said Miss Trotter. ut
has been largely a woman's work and
its inception came from a woman's
brains. AS doctors you have done
your part, and you have done it so
well that you have a reputation
throughout the state.
Modern medicine is fast clearing
away the mysteries of disease. If dis
ease is a special dispensation of Provi-
dence the medical profession is making
it its business to find out the
and the means of prevention for these
special dispensations."
Getting Experience"
Getting Experience was a topic
that apparently went home to every
physician present and on every face
there was for a time a retrospective
look. DR.. H. c. Finch of Blakesburg re-
sponded to the toast "The young doc
tor comes out Of school with the accu-
mulated experience of centuries in his
vest pocket. He looks on the old physi-
clan as an old mossback. On the first
real cold stormy night when the old
doctor does not want to be out and
brave the storm. the young doctor be-
gins to get his experience. You all
have been through it and it is i'm.
possible for me to tell you anything
new about it."
What Are We Here For7
What are we Here For?" was the
pointed question to which DR.. Brock.
man was assigned. DR.. Brockman re.
lated how in the choice Of subjects to
which they were to respond DR.. Baker
had had first choice and chose the one
best suited to his taste. II am not a
bird and I would not be an early bird
IT / were for I do not like to get up
early and besides 1 do not like worms.
What are We here for? Where? If
1t means at this banquet, we are here
to get a three dollar banquet for a dol.
lar and a half. We are here to make
a stock cleaning for our host and the
events of. the past hour justify the
statement.
What are we on earth for? The
great majority must answer nothing
at ALL
what is the medical profession for?
Because when we went into it we
thought it was the easiest profession In
which to earn a living.
When we had entered it we found
THAT 1t was the grandest and noblest
profession IN earth. 1t has done more
to elevate humanity, to wipe away
tears and to relieve pain than all 9th.
ers combined. 1t has increased life
from an aveage of twenty-five years to
over thirty-seven and one-half years.
Nothing but work wins In our pro-
fession. The doctor must read the
best periodicals and keep abreast of
all the latest developments and ad.
s~Yancements. He must keep up his
equipment, study the use Of the X-ray
machine and all other helps but he
must not depend entirely on machine
made diagnoses"
"Trials and Tribulatlons Of the Doctor
To DR.. c. E. Huband was referred
the telling Of the Trials and Tribula,
lions of the Doctor" and he did 1t in
an eloquent manner in a neat little
talk Astounding in beautiful figures of
speech and word painting. He paid a
glowing tribute to woman as the chief
trial of the doctor, and gave her credit
for at least one thing in which she is
pre-eminent above man
Man." said the doctor, has exer-
| cised his ingenuity with the steam
and electricity and the great forces Of
the world. He has accomplished won
derful and seemingly impossible things
but he has never been able to change
one fundamental law Of nature. Wo-
man on the other hand has appropri.
ated to herself the beautiful metals,
materials and stones of the earth and
adorned herself with them. She has
gone farther. In all the races and
species of animal life on the earth the
male is the more beautiful than the
female. But woman in the human
family has made herself the more
beautiful and has thus reversed a fun
damental law of nature"
"There Are Others"
"To prepare a meal that will be pal
atable two hours after the time it was
to be eaten is one of the things that
the wife Of q doctor must learn" de-
clared Mrs. Murdoch Bannister who
les pUuuCu W JuC IOdSI VI
Others" ''That is not ALL" she con
tinued, *'for the wife must also learn
how TO prepare a meal that will be pal
atable in five minutes notice.
81 am fully converted to the doc
trine of compensation, that some must
suffer while doctors learn.
There are many things that the
wife of the doctor must learn and
must abide. She must learn to sit
at home hour after hour ant quietly
await the coming of her husband. She
must study his jokes and in the course
of six or seven years she may become
SO adept that she will laugh at the
right place every time.
ga doctors wife has a heavy price
to pay but who. having occupied that
position, would change it for any
other? It should be her greatest wish
to help her husband along and up in
his profession till he attains an honor.
able position"
"RIack Sheep In Every Flock"