Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-09-09

necessitates such prolonged treatment
to fully restore the all but exhausted
nervous system that the victim often
has not the patience to continue un-
der professional care until cure can
/ be effected.
If physicians are twitted with dis
agreements, how is it with the theo-
1ogians with their different denomina-
tons, creeds and methods of church
government, basing their beliefs on
the same divine revelations? The
i lawyers, whose opinions are usually
given after thorough and deliberative
study? And the statesmen, with their
Numerically opposite views on the
tariff, currency, mode of taxation, as
well as to our policy in our newly ac-
CURED territory?
We are told that mathematics is
not only science, but an exact
science, yet how often do we see the
failure of merchants whose business
| is of necessity run ON mathematical
principles; as we'll do we note the
errors of the civil engineer whose ev-
cry calculation is made figures, and
of the architect whose inaccuracies
are often revealed to the builder, to
say nothing of the politician who can
figure" his party into power ire
spective of the political complexion
| of the voters
That there are many sources of
error in the practical application of
the teachings of medicine, besides the
possible ignorance of the physician
and the natural limitation of human
knowledge and power, we both recog-
nize and admit.
In the first place, we have an I'M
even race with that inevitable, fleet,
and silent messenger, death, to which
we must all succumb, sooner or later;
then comes personal idiosyncracy, by
which is meant popularity of con-
stitution wherein remedies do not act
lin accustomed manner; false or err
roneous statements of patients to the
physician; refusal of patients to per-
Init thorough investigations of their
conditions; refusal or failure to fol-
How Instructions, and the now rare
possibility Of inferiority of drugs or
Intentional substitution by the drug
5st for all of which the potency of
Rcience Of medicine is assailed.
I 6ndef fdiosyncracy might be In
lchuded that popularity of certain per-
sons to forget the doctors pay day;
eall work and no pay" frequently
makes dull physician, and while the
doctors attention is diverted by this
serious condition, he might overlook
others, perhaps more serious to the
patient, although forgetfulness is quite
frequently a forerunner of that wide
spread American disease, nervous
prostration, and may lead to mad
ness"
Ingratitude toward the physician is
not recently discovered attribute of
mankind, since it has for centuries
been theme for moralists and poets,
as well as for humorists and testers.
Gratitude, if it exists at all, is at
its flood during the acme of the dis
ease, thenceforth being inversely pro-
portionate to the square of the time
which elapses after the crisis; hence
the logical psychological moment for
the physicians recompense would be
clearly indicated were it not for the
fact that the Doctors bill is often
misconstrued as a challenge to fight"
Never will investments net larger |
returns than will the liberal fees paid |
the faithful family physician.
Notwithstanding the presumption
that defaulting clients would be char
ritable toward the shortcomings of |
their medical attendants, as matter
of fact they are often the most ex-
acting, not alone as to quality and
quantity of services demanded, but
as to the hours the services shall be
rendered, frequently reviling their
benefactors for fancied dereliction or
delays.
Intemperance, dissipation and race
suicide constitute the tripod of vice,
crime and degeneracy, besides being
fruitful sources of sickness and death.
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