The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-11
A WeIl-Known Surgeon
Says the Thing the Country
!. Needs Is An Operatief:

friend who had the same allment ana
who procured a certain remedy at drug
store that fixed him up in jig time
Then the sick man will go TO a drug
store and ask for the remedy reeoni-
mended to him. but is likely 70 carry
away something the druggist has recon-
mended as lust as good because II Is
an article made expressly for his chain
Of stores.
The remedy viii fail to remedy, and
the sick man will visit 2 doctor.
He win try the first doctor for a time
get no better, change doctors, get no bet
ter. change doctors, get no better and
keep on changing doctors and getting no
better until he comes upon one who vii
give him something like a brotherly ln-
terest
This doctor viii tell him in jifty that
his case is not q case for medicine but
for surgery and will advise an operation.
The sick man will decide at once, Of
course. that if he is TO be operated on
he will be operated on by the best sur
geon he can get.
Consequently he will ask his physician
TO recommend somebody out OF town.
Just why it is that people feel called
upon to 90 out Of town when they want
the best of ANYTHING, is a thing that
has not been explained, at least TO our
knowledge.
Generally all a salesman for ANY
THING has to do is to tell the person
he is trying to sell an article that 1t is
imported and that settles it.
He has made a sale.
There are just as good surgeons IN De
troit as there are anywhere, but there IS
that idea of so many people that we
have to contend with in trying to estab-
hsh the fact.
We are not questioning here the abil-
ity of any of those outside men Of sci
ence who have by great skill accomplish
ed the seemingly impossible and won the
confidence of the world.
We do not seek to take their well-won
spurs and regulations from men, for IN
stance, like the Mayo brothers, renowned
for the wonders they have worked with
the knife, and frequently in the practice
of the greatest of the three graces.
The honest surgeon, conscious of his
own limitations, will frequently say,
This is case for more skilled and more
experienced hands than mine" and he
will recommend, very often, the Mayo
brothers.
The average doctor viii admit that no
case has baffled science UNTIL 1T
HAS BAFFLED THE MAYO BROTH
Frs.
The average laynan knows enough
about the Mayo brothers to realize that
a diagnosis of case by)a Mayo is worth
giving a whole lot of consideration
When there is something radically
wrong with the country, we try nearly
everything by way of remedy, until
we finally get around to heroic treat
ment, or the very thing we should have
tried in the first place.
Some candidate for legislative Office
mounts a soap box. somewhere, and tells
us that he knows what the remedy is.
When he gets to Washington, he finds
out that what he should try for US is
something just as good" because that
is something the party has prescribed
with the welfare of the party first
consideration.
We change congressman and get no
better, and change congressman and get
no better, until finally someone speaks
from his heart and in his real interest
for his fellows-for the people of his
country.
II is that service which The Times
would perform in this column today.
Our country's system is a matter, just
Mt this time, of much concern to every
body.
It has symptoms Of stomach trouble
an emptiness which It's physicians in
Washington may have discovered but
for which they are mighty slow in pre-
scribing.
1t has symptoms Of being very much
underfed at a very critical time. when all