Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-10

dred thousand coins every eleven months for Ameri-
who did need to die from it said to be
durable One association in the United States last
year spent So $50 621-raised mostly by doctors
fighting tuberculosis and telling people everywhere
how to cure and prevent 1t.
On the other hand, to be sure. few things
have been found for the doctors to do.
Adenoids-you never heard of them when you
youngster-have been discovered to be re-
sponsble for much of the i'll health and mental de-
children have the adenoid growths cut out of
their they breathe properly and the doc
tors make quite little money doing this.
1t has been discovered too that lots of bad boys
are bad because their skulls have been dented in.
DR.. White of Wisconsin experimental with boy of
fourteen who persistent thief The boy, when
he was five had been hit by falling door and de-
preston had been left in his skull. The doctor
moved the bone that was pressing on the BRAIN and
the boy has been good ever since.
The new surgery" it is called, has developed
wonderful fields for medical and surgical experiments.
Arteries from human leg have been kept for twenty
four days in cold storage and then successfully put
into the leg of dog. Human kneecaps, human kid
neys and various other parts of the body have been
successfully exchanged. The dying have been
stored to life and health by joining their arteries to
those of healthier friends In the treatment of the
insane wonderful progress has been made.
Yet when doctor captures new germ, or in
vents a serum, devises operation, he seldom
profits much personally by it. The ethics of his
profession demand that he confer his new knowledge
on his fellows for the benefit of mankind and seldom
if ever does doctor violate his Hppocratic oath.
Remarks by the Doctors Wife
A S doctors wife says-and you can't blame her
1 much; for while the doctor is saving people,
she has to try to enough to pay the family bills,
"One who invents submarine, airshp, gun,
any kind of machine that is of any to the Govern
ment is paid thousands of dollars His ideas
safeguarded that no one can make use OF them
without paying.
The doctor who discovers the hookworm, the
of peagra the mosquito in malaria and yellow
fever is a far greater benefactor than any of these
1t requires years of hard study, hard labor. and
great deal of hard cash to make him skiful enough
to trace the of these diseases and years
of experimenting and heartbreaking experience to
find remedy. While he is using every faculty to the
vanishing point in studying out these things, he and
his family are dragged through purgatory in the
effort to pay expenses.
What does he get for all this? Every original
thought he has learned, his plan of treatment his
prescriptions all are free to the world He gets not
even vote of thanks from the ruling Powers Is he
not entitled to fruit from his labors well
the inventor of machine? Should the doctors
brain be free plunderf
If doctor discovers the cause prevention and
cure of a disease that is a scourge to the nation
should he not be paid by the naton?''
What is going to become of all the doctors and the
doctors wives and the doctors children when they
get all the diseases cured and there
patients and more fees? They do not seem to be
themselves. Some of the medical men utterly
impractical that they trying still further to re-
duce their incomes by regulating marriage so that
only the perfectly healthy may marry and all the
children will be born healthy
Plainly it up to the people for whom the doctors
are doing all these phlanthropic things to that
the doctors have enough to live These self sacr
fcng benefactors of mankind surely deserving of
proper support.
Have you paid your last doctor bill yet?