The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-12

Guilty in collecting their own bills,
largely for the same reason, and one
may readily see that even the con
formers lot, also, Is not a happy
one from a financial point OF view.
Because the physician has usually
been considered more or less of an
undesirable necessity. wits in all ages
have not spared him.
In Poor Richards Almanac. Ben
Franklin makes or quotes the pro-
verb, God heals. the doctor takes
the fee In "Heirogiyphics of the
Life OF Man" Quarles wrote, Ply
sicians OF all men are most happy;
whatever good success they have the
world proclaimeth, and what faults
they commit the earth covereth."
Another says, The lawyers mistakes
are recorded, while the doctors are
buried" Even in Holy Writ We
Gnd. in substance, And Asa the King
was i'll, and Asa relied not upon the
Lord, but upon the physicians. And
Asa slept with his fathers
You would be surprised, perhaps.
to know how large a minority of
American citizens are engaged In the
business of healing the majority,
other Of physical or of mental all
ments, or Of both. You would doubt
less he even more surprised to know
into how many differing schools, sects
and 'isms'' those multitudes Of heal
ers are divided, each moro or less Of
a theropetieal Ishmael whose hand is
against almost every man. not only
OF other schools, but often also of
his own.
In New York alone may be found
advocates of almost every known
method Of healing. The Tom-Tom of
EDffGfNtAf or thA weird FTrge rF sh.s
-Eoudou to frighten away the painful
Terror; the sun Cure; the Noon Cure;
the Planet Cure; the Medium Control
Cure; the Devil Cure. the Divine
Cure. alI are there. regular, Irregular
and detective, like verbs. and all seem
to be thriving, from the extreme prag-
matical drug-and-knife scientist 10 the
idealistic mental scientist. calmly CIV
ing absent treatment n an infant al
the antipodes. 1t is even stated, with
bated breath, that in the underworld
of New York may still be found fana-
ties Offering up the lives 0f children
or maidens upon the bloody sacrificial
altar TO propttiate the dread disease
demon, and thereby save some other
more valuable life.
1t Is not only the ancients that be-
ieved disease IL merely "A demon to
be exercised. The modern physical
tIEfllES seems content IN BfE own
demonstrations of the fact that dis
case is only n germ 70 be destroyed.
SO that nature may repair it's ravages
and cast out its poison. Whatever the
ultimate truth may be, the fact Is that
he average human lifa is lengthening.
while human comfort and physical
wei1-heing are surely increasing.
There is an ancient adage. Like
gods. like people" "A new saying, Like
pills. like people" would bo equally
true. The history Of therapeutics is
the history OF civilization. and hat
applies also TO naenta, anr psychic
therapeutics, The history Of healing
may be traced by the evolution Of
cognate ideas, 1t has developed to a
point where there is 4 Very large. but
not yet universal, recognition of a
great threa-sided problem Of thera-
- 1ttcs, and tho healer Who Ignores
this, and also the healer who believes
It, has Yet much to learn
Shakespeare evidently believed that
il was useless to minister 10 a mind
disasad. Even to-day many repu-
table physicians still sQbscribe to that
hopeless admission of the healer's
impotence. Xet Of SIX hundred in
mates of Il leading insane asylum III
this country $40 who had been pro-
noHneed hepelessly insane We're cur
I'd in a short tine-restored to ad-
mltted sanity. and - their former
ability to enjoy tho blessings OF life.
That Is 6 far cry from othelIo's
terror, and from Hanlets hopeless
ness.
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therapeuticai science. IT IL a pro-
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