Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-05-30

Health made up Of your best doctors.
You have a creditable health report.
You surely have good Health Off,
Ger and not n political ward heller
in the office. Your vital statistics
are particularly good. You surely
have fine lot of honorable profess
sional physicians, who a,e working
night and day to prevent and cure
your diseases; if you have not You
surely should see that you have.
Where came from the city's princ
pal assets are pure mir and pure wa
ter and permanent sunshine. We
don't need doctors very much, but
when we do need one, we need him
jus, as bad and just as good as You
do. Every person within the sound
of my voice thinks they have the best
doctor. IL they cannot think SO they
had better change doctors right now.
II is a great mistake, however, to
think that there is only one good doe
tor in town. He might die, move
away, or be sent to the penitentiary,
then you would have to change your
mind and employ someone You had
been talking about. Would you like
to know whether your doctor is n
good doctor or mott Well, IL he is
morally and personally clean, if he
does not tell you that Doctors Brown,
Jones. Smith and Tompkins are ig-
norant make shifts of doctors; if he
is on friendly terms with his neigh
Dor physicians; does not object to,
hut rather courts consultations; ex-
pcct you to pay him as promptly as
you do your other servants; has a
well selected library and spends most
of his spare time reading from the
greater lights of the profession !;
keeps his instruments clean. and for
gets to tell You all about other pa
tients-you in all probability have n
good doctor. Whether he is born on
farm or on campus; whether his
father counted his millions or ped
died vegetables for a living makes
little difference.
could name hundreds of good
men who are working for vain glory
or the price of their fees alone.
They are doing right because it is
right. and not from fear of punish.
ment or hope of reward. Did Gen
ner. Pasteur, Lister. Mcdowell. Syms
or Gross amass fortunesi They did
not. viii Wyeth. Deever, Keen, Muir
ply, OSner or Mayo die rich! They
will not. They have. and are. spend
ing their lives in helping others. Do
you envy them the soft gloves. the
warm clothes and comfortable home,
or the motor ear with which they
make their daily calls? Well. Just
crawl ont of warm bed some night,
dress hurriedly and rush ont through
u blizzard and the wind blowing forty
miles an hour and the temperature
below zero and see if you do not
.ho u,,, Nnnr minds
You who make your living by hon
EST toll. do You envy your doctor his
white. soft hands and neat every day
working clothes' Why, my dear
friend he had TO clean up. Less thar
forty eight hours have passed since
he had such dirty job that you
would be- sick by its simple descrip-
ton. TO say nothing of coming ii
contact with it. If he does not keeT
; clean he is n walking delegate lader
with disease germs which would b,
: glad To select YOU for their futur,
= host.
: II You do not believe that doctor,
can and do prevent disease turn YOU
thoughts Ia the lsthms of Panama
, where Colonel Gorgas has changed
a pestilential region. where The Ride,
With the Pale Horse has ridden will
free rein since first discovery of th,
region. into an inhabited. tropica
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