Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1913-07-17
Doctors in Times of Peril.

events were relegated to the
back pages of the newspapers.
Every issue of the dailies was
full of heart-rending and pathetic
otories of disasters, storms and
floods. The people responded to
the call for help with the mag
nanimity and promptness which
characterize the nation. From
the scenes Of the disaster came
the call for food, clothing and
shelter. But before this there
came a call for physicians to
minister to the wounded, the
sick and the dying. From al
most every afflicted locality soon
came the same statement, "a
special train carrying volunteer
physicians, nurses, dressings and
medical supplies is on the way
| to the scene of disaster.
So it is after every great calam-
ity. The first men on the scene
are physicians, performing their
sacred work of saving life and
relieving suffering. This hap
pens so constantly as to be an &C
cepted occurrence. No one ex-
presses any surprise. On the
contrary, surprise would be
aroused only if the nearest avail
able physicians ever failed to
respond in numbers equal to the
need. Leaving their own work,
volunteering without hesitation
for the hardest service, they toll
often for days and nights with
out asking for or expecting COM
pensation. Instances are not
hard to find. Following the re-
cent cyclone in Omaha, one sur
vivor writes; 81 have personal
knowledge of physicians whose
homes were DESTROYED, yet the
moment they knew their families
were not injured they left them
and worked all night ministering
to the MANNED and dying"
There never has been q public
calamity in which the services
of physicians were not instantly
offered, without money and with
out price.
At such times what becomes of
| the innumerable sects and cults
which, under ordinary conditions,
are constantly trying to usurp
the place of the scientific medical
profession aud undermine the
confidence of the public. APP.
parently they sink into obscurity
and silence. When the emery
ency arises, what have they to
offer? Suppose the dispatch from
Ohio had read: ga special train
containing one hundred osteo-
paths is on the way to Dayton.
All the sufferers will be given
spinal adjustments as soon as the
train arrives" Or sit is report.
ed that two hundred people are
dead and thousands rendered
homeless and in danger of their
lives through exposure due to
the floods in Columbus. A spec.
ial train containing one hundred
chiropractics is being sent to the
scene at once. Those suffering
from injury and exposure will be
given immediate treatment fol
nerve infringement" Or let us
even suppose that those who dis.
dain all material methods should
emerge from their state of self
absorption long enough to dc
something practical: "Senatol
Works telegraphs that he has ar
ranged for special train, con
tanning one hundred Christian
Science healers, to be sent tt
Omaha. This train has beer
given the right of way over all
railroads. All persons injured
in the cyclone and the blizzard
will be given mental treatment
{ as soon as the train arrives" NJ
/ such items have appeared in any
of the newspapers. They would
be created with laughter from
: all over the country. The pc
culiarity common to all of thu
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