Arizona republican., 1906-02-04

greed banqueted, the higher ms Iees' the more he is president and challrnan' the more useless he is as a physician the more contemptible hls prlVale character, and the methods whereby he has gained his vogue. There may be exceptions, but the wise Wlll not err in putting them down as few mdeeo- On the other hand, the rewards or the modest and unselfish lover of men and of science are of the highest and most satisfactory kind.
 'In no other calling, not even in pure science, is there such an opportunity to make great discoveries of tremend- Ous value. And these discoveries are for all men. for the whole world, and for all time. Moreover, they are prac- tical, affect the very warp and wool Of life, reaching into the daily and hourly -being-or ill-being-of the lowest and the highest. There is peculia: reason for this. consisting in the fact that no two mems diseases or eases are exactly alike. The cause and na- ture of every ones illness differs from that of every other that has been or may be. This gives an individuality to practice, and supplies the basis of the art of healing, which is unlike that of any other calling. The great ease, tAAC uiAl4uE G8peIlEIlCes tue tlihAllAAAaAAilfa discovery may just as well come in the country town to the unknown family doctor, as to the most erudite in the city laboratory.
 "In another way the modest, silent worker has an advantage over the schemer who slyly gives his photo graph to the assistant. who in turn hands it to the reporter; and that is the intimate and affectionate relation in which he stands to patients in their personal and social life. The calling which removes one farthest from the real feelings. suffeEings. hopes and joys of men is most to be suspected; it breeds most superficiality and self seeking, and encourages coldness and cruelty. The physician who grows callous to the needs, wants, and woes of his patients and of the community should be 'ostracized.' He is out of place, and should have beens directed, when young, toward some other calling.
 AS in every profession, the real dis coverer of medical truth is ignored and even hated, not only by the leaders, but by the rank and file. Physicians are human beings. and humanity has never had anything but martyrdom for the light bringer and the truth shower Luckily, when one is so fortunate, or unfortunate, as to be a discoverer, he has probably learned that there is no human reward he can or is likely to get that avails him aught. His true reward is to see his truth wrought into the lives of his contemporaries. That can rarely happen in any calling. But if he loves his fellow men, his far away and unknown fellow sufferers, he is reasonably content to know that they will profit by the work of the unknown discoverer, who loved them although unknown to him.
 And after all. when we view the nl-success of the vast majority in self seeking (and not fnding), the material rewards of the conscientious physician average well with those of the others. His calling is not unhealthful in spite of the fact that he handles infection and disease. He has, as a rule, good food, warm clothing, a roof over him, wife and little ones and a position of trust and honor among his fellow workmen. These things pay no man for his highest work-and higher work is not rewarded; and the coveted ex- cess of food, clothing, roofs. and even wives, one learns to believe, like all excesses, bring-well. they do not bring happiness and we'll being"