Arizona republican., 1906-02-04

Him Succeed" Building Business,' Dollars and Sense" Practical Pub lcity," 'Fowler's Cyclopedia of Pub licity and Printing" "Gumption," etc. Copyright 1906 by Nath1 c. Fowler, Jr.
 The physician is one of the noblest products of civilization. His associates are of the highest grade; his surround ings are refined, broad, progressive. and civilized. He lives both under the sunshine of life and under the shadow of death, and, by day and by night, he feels the pulse of humanity. and con tinually listens to the beating Of the public heart.
 Practically every doctor in good and regular standing is a man of ability and a credit to his community.
 The brainless man of inactive good ness may be tolerated in the pulpit, the man of wind" may be allowed to practice at the bar, but the regular | physician cannot maintain his position unless he gives proof of his conlpe tency. True. there are in the medi 1 cal profession some practitioners who would make better blacksmiths than | doctors; some are better fittcu for other callings; but the rank and file of regular physicians are men of much 1 education, careful training, strong character, and pronounced ability. Comparatively few mediocre men are | attracted toward the medical profes- sion because efficiency in 1t, and finan- cial success resulting from its practice. not only demand long and hard study but require willing and continual sac rifices.
 n LyiDcr nf medical sion, I am referring to the regular l physician, the graduate of one Of the two great schools of medicine all | lopathic or homeopathic, and a mem- Der of one of the two recognized and | standard medical societies. am not l referring to the quacks, charletans, and | other uneducated and untrained practi- | tioners, who certainly ought to De sent to jail, and would be, if the majority | of our people exercised the full prerog- ative of citizenship.
 No man can occupy a more honor | able, more respected, and a more re- | sponsible position than does the regu- | lar doctor. In the action of his brain and in the skill of his hands. he often holds the control of life. He is our friend at birth, and remains with us until we die. He is a necessity for ] W llAiOul IiIIl We COuIu not De property born. nor could we properly live.
 To become a physician, one must pass | through the longest and hardest cours- es of study. where favoritism is un- known. and where each student must | depend upon himself or fall by the way sled. Not one boy in ten thousand has the natural abilities to make him | fitted for the medical profession no matter how many there may be who 1 think they want to become doctors, and the parent who pushes his son In this direction, unless the boy shows marked | characteristics which point to thIs pro- fession, not only wrongs the boy, but the community as well.
 The boy most likely to succeed as a doctor is one who takes life seriously, and yet is not morose; for successful seriousness sees the bright side of life as often as it does the cloudy slde. | While it is true that some frivolous boys have later acquired great
 sobriety of demeanor and thought, and
 have become eminent physicians, yet 1 the majority of good physicians have
 developed from thoughtful and serious
 lads, who early realized that life was it's responsibilities, and that there was
 something in it besides chance and
 pleasure. The embryo physician is likely
 to be a student, almost always an ex- perimenter, an early seeker after truth
 natural reasoner, and one who does
 not readily accept any statement unless
 1t is backed by probability. He is sell
 dom, if ever, superstitious. The mirac-
 ulous is to him the natural law of God
 and the working of Gods nature
 Such a boy loves nature, and in his
 crude way is an evolutionist and a be-
 liever in cause and effect. He feels the
 growth of life, and becomes familiar
 with it's different forms. Physiology
 is his favorite study, and he may ever
 acquire fair knowledge of anatomy
 He may faint at the first sight of blood
 and become unnerved in the presence
 of suffering, so that his parents may
 conclude that because the boy does mol
 seem to have the strongest of nerves
 therefore he is unfitted for the medI-
 cal profession No man with
 out feeling, is fitted to be
 a physician. The greater the physi elan, the greater the amount of feeling
 he possesses. But he also has the power of nerve concentration, whicf
 allows him to cut in mercy and to seen
 not to care while in action, but nc man of fine intellect, no man of con.
 summate skill, can idly stand unmoveC
 beside the bed of suffering. Good
 butchers are not good doctors. and the
 man without tender feeling never mad,
 a good surgeon.
 The wild boy, the thoughtless boy
 the boy who does not possess tht characteristics of manlines, and whC
 is not willingly a student, will never
 become more than a mediocre doctor One of the first indications of abilit,
 in this direction is the perceptible en
 Joyment which the boy shows at tn, visits of the family phyhician, anC the earnestness with which he listens to all that the doctor says. AS h. } grows older, he associates with rnedi } cal men, and probably borrows medica 1 books, and studies them earnestly