The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-23

to nurse their children. would not be
 Lactation is but taken as an exam pie of many of the normal functions about which we know very little; all are important. and 1t devolves upon the general practitioner. by his obserya- lions. to work them out or suE-
 gest lines of inquiry that will result In their being worked out
 Take the average community in this educated scientist. knowing all things pertaining thereto? It Is the doctor. ao wields an. influence that Is great few fads or popular expectations ex- list that cannot be traced to the ad- vice of the family physician of the great grandfather. or some oid lnnisn. ,.a stone, becotne legacy, and more po- tent with age--a triend or mine lost the practice in family because he re- fused to blister the calves or the legs ... ,..-..,iisnIa, because d doctor who had been dead fifty years, once said that would cure any case of pneumonia. Examples like this are legion. famil- iAr to all, and when we are inclined to | censure the people. let us be sure that our own skirts are clean. Suppose every physician really believed that there could be no cause without sn and going day in and day out teaching this by precept and example. quack. cry. with all of its delustons. would
  pie much to. the benefit of the people. | 1t is hard when a loved one in fam fly Is sick nigh unto death. to say to the family; l do not know want neg: ,sr to leave the impression that there IS some mysterious cause, which Is only capable of being understood and exs plained by a Supreme Being. Then' IT the patient gets well you have per formed q miracle, and if the patient dies, hide behind that revered saying the Lord gave and the Lord takssn not conceive that an All Wise, All Knowinss All Loving Creator. would intend that his dictates should be used to shield ignorance or negiee.s; gs .iSs ov any way toward the establishing Of physiological truth confers upon hu- manity a greater blessing, aesesHes victorious armies, or making the well | kin ring in legislative halls
 One Sunday evening during the win ter of isss sst N. in yark tns cty PIisten | ing to a sacred concert, given by an | orchestra composed of over an hundred artists, led by an artists hang. Eary | in the evening the Cavillera Rustican. na was played. Throughout the. first | act. you could see the entire audience was impressed with the strife and struggle as sSprssssu ssouseS e when 10 they drifted into that beautitul intermsS@o | the audience immediately. and with 2 sigh. settled back in their seats as II to How kU 'I ike @ the man who grows old | practicing imperical medicine Any | man who spends his life in relieving sckness' to the best of his ability. de- serves to spend the latter years ot l his life surrounded by q comp noy, and the love and respect or cniIuren ,n
 this world, and as he passes out at the | west gate, to wrap the draperies or nlA' couch about him, and lay him down 10 'iiT Later in the evening, when 1t seemed | that the audience was ready to adapt | itself to any mood that shonId be ale
 rected by the music. The ,. idsr E-,nn csusa w1sn ed the entire orchestra to strike three or four beautiful chords: after the last chord silence reigneu for an instant then tne ef throuEhout the orchestra bedlam
 reigned, every group of instruments seemed to be carrying different time but in a short time, oyer in one cor. playing away. carrying the orig sina! theme. then the flutes took up tnis theme, and as each succeeding group
 ward in their seats. unti! finally the the
 entire orchestra was united in one
 sweet melody, shadowed forth m the
 original chords. After the ne iaSs s"a,snes @
 
 was strained to catch the last faint
 echo, and after 1t had died away, there
 was fully a minutes silence, then cneet after cheer rang out from that great audience. L,s How like the man who spends nis
 life practicng scientific mediclne--nls
 graduation Is the first sweet chords-s
 then when he enters the practice oI
 medicine the competition. the struggle
 for a livelihood. and the popular super
 stitions of the community in which ne
 locates, are the first dlscords and strife
 which come in the beginning or every
 mans career. Then he gets one case
 in which the effects of his rational SCI
 entifc work tells that Is the one in-
 cident that will ever shine out through
 out his entire life. One by one he be-
 comes accustomed to viewing disease In a scientific way. until It becomes
 second nature to him, and the phenom-
 ena which are familiar to him are nan
 dled by his mind rehexly. and when he
 sees a peculiar phenomenon he IS on
 the alert at once, nothing so important
 as getting at the bottom Of It, ana as
 he grows older. his opinion Is more
 and more valuable on account Of his
 habit of observation, and while he may
 grow old In years he will never grow
 old in his profession and he deserves
 to spend the latter days of his life sur
 rounded by friends and loved ones ne
 also has the respect and conndence oi
 the younger practitioners or medicine
 and when he comes to die 1t is in the
 saddle, and the community In Whicn