Graham guardian., 1906-03-02


one in beside him, tucked the robes
about her and steered away to the
stricken home.
"Puc ~,oria" was what the
doctor said mhen he had finished
his examination.
Leaving the room where the
childl en sat wide.eyed at the sud-
den appearance of an automobile
and the big kind doctor, he went
into the kitchen.
"Good Godw he exclaimed, for
he used bit of emphatic language
now and again. "It's wonder
she isn't dead. l don't believe a
horse could stand it as long as she
did"
The stores were closed, so the
doctor did the next best thing.
He went next door, borrowed u
few quarts of soft coal and made
fire. Then he sent his man for IA
nurse. The grocery wagon and
milkman stopped there the next
morning. Then some coal came
up, The nurse stayed.
1t was a hard fight, but the wo,
man pulled through.
The doctor got bill from the
coal man, another from the nurse,
another from the milkman, and
more from the grocer and butcher.
The woman didn't get any bill.
There is no entry on the doctors
book for his professional services.
That IS only one case out of
many. Do you wonder | lift my
hat to The Doctor?
y
The doctor is not glad to hear
of sickness.
The study and advice of all good
doctors is now toward the end OF
preventing as we'll ss relieving
sickness.
From the time the doctor starts
on his rounds in the morning until
he has answered his last night bell
he hears nothing but the groanings
of humanity, save when he hears
that he is giving relief. His life
is not pleasant one. He cannot
claim one night for sleep, one day
for vacation. All the ulcers, the
sores, the freaks of pain, the wages
of sin, the penalty of ignorance
are before him constantly. There
fore if you meet him tomorrow
don't mention that little pain you
had after over eating to day. He
hears enough of them.
The doctor will agree with you
that medicine is not an exact
science. You are not lessening his
usefulness by having him admit
that. The doctor will also agree
that this generation suffers from a
more varied lot of diseases than
did our forefathers-but the doctor
didn't invent them, did he? The |
doctor will also agree with you
that there are better things than
medicine, but this does not weaken
his authority to say when medicine
is necessary.
From the very fact that medicine |
cannot be classed among the exact
sciences we can expect that doctors,
Of all students, will be the most
in their experiments
and discoveries.
If, after finding the signs of dis
ease in the flesh, the physician be.
comes metapbysiclan and traces
The source of disease to the mind,
10 thought, is it not gain that he
was not tied to some exact phase
1f material science? If, instead of
many shelves of medicines and
pills, the doctor teaches us to pre-
serve health by thinking health,
DO holding CHEEKY, successful
thoughts, by maintaining friend
y attitude toward health, would
hat not be a benefit
Would not the doctor then be in
inc with the therapeutics of Jesus,
Who said: "Cleanse first the inside
of the cup and the platter, that the
'utside may become clean ALSO"
But for his good deeds, for his
'atience, for his skill, for his great
hare in the bearing of hunanity's
'urdens / doff my hat to The
Doctor. May be live to see all his
dvice followed, all his patients
ured and all his bills paid, W.
T. C. in DeSeret NetcS.