The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-04
My Second Med
ical Examination
Copyright. 1917. Western Newspaper Union)
By ALAN HiNSDALE

! .1th or June ana on the LOIH started
FOR town in the West. intending be.
tore settling down to practice TO put
n a couple Of months recreation.
FELL in with party Of tourists, one of
hem being Miss Julia McGregor
When she discovered that l was saw
,ones, there arose bond of sympa-
Thy between US, for she was daugh-
.er Of one Of the most eminent sur
yeOns In America, and q lecturer in a
medical college.
Preferring the company Of these
people. especially Miss McGregor. to
travelling alone, I chung to them. Where
they went went. We visited the Vel
.owstone park and other regions Of in
crest and when my outing was ended
{ pronounced it the most delightful l
aad ever experienced.
And we'll I might, for l had been
falling in love with Miss McGregor,
and she had reciprocated.
It was the middle Of September
when. having been referred by her to
her father. l went to ask him for the
hand of his daughter. She rounded
up her outing by a visit to friends in
| Chicago. but had written her father
that would call upon him at the fam
| tly home, which was in a suburban
| town near the city Of Philadelphia.
Having boarded the train that was
10 take me to my destination, the car
being nearly filed, I took seat by an
| elderly gentleman who was reading
his evening newspaper. But he laid 1T
on his lap soon after the train started
and gazed out Of the window. I adj
dressed him, asking him how far my
station was from the city. He in
! formed me very courteously. and told
me he lived there. Then I told him
was going to call upon Doctor Nc
GregOr, and asked him how l could
dnd the doctors residence. He told
me he knew Doctor MacGregor very
we'll and gave me the necessary direc-
lions.
/ While conversing with the gentle
man I told him that was a newly
made M. D. I said I thought that I
had an advantage over older doctors
In that had learned the latest discov-
cries in medicine.
My auditor listened to me attentive
". occasionally asking me my opinion
as to the merits Of antitodns for va.
eious diseases that were we'll known
to the layity and answered him in
such language as would be understood
BY q layman, carefully avoiding medi-
cal terms. Whenever was obliged to
use scientific nomenclature he did not
ask me to define the word used. nor
did he at any time show q want OF
comprehension.
Before our journey was half ended
he had asked me a number Of these
questions that could not answer. and
finally said that he did not see from
my replies that the doctors just grad
uated knew any more than those who
had been long in practice, and he did
not think that doctors knew much.
anyway. whether young or old. I was
angered at this. and retorted that
whether or no doctors were ignorant
If their profession. they knew more
than the laity. do you look upon
your fellow citizen, Doctor MacGregor,
as an ignoramusY added.
"What he knows" was the reply,
is as grain of sand to whole sea-
coast to what he doesn't know"
At this point the trainman called our
station and we left the car together.
The gentleman cooled my wrath by In
viting me to ride with him in his mo-
tOrcar to the home of my father-in-law
In prospect, and accepted his invi-
tation. We entered q beautiful car
which was in waiting, and were driven
away by q uniformed chauffeur. My
companion telling him to stop at a
certain house by the way. On reach
Ing this house, the former pointed to
q handsome place not far distant as
Doctor MacGregors, saying the doctor
Usually came up on the train we had
Travelled on and II he was not ct home
be would be very soon.
The maid who answered my sum-
mons at Doctor MacGregor's said that
she expected the doctor very soon and
I sat down to wait for him. In q few
minutes who should enter the room
but my companion on my trip from
the city. /
I was staggered. Why should he be
there7 He approached me with an.
amused but kindly smile, saying:
swell, my boy, I'm sorry to have'an
gered you, but it is the only revenge I
could inflict upon a man who is about
to rob me Of the greatest treasure I
possess"
"You-you are Doctor MacGregorr'
I gasped.
II am. took occasion, incognito, to,
draw you out on various subjects.
Now you may put your best foot for
ward, and make yourself appear the
marvel my daughter has described
you."
Heavens !" exclaimed. II thought
I had passed my medical examination
last June. l didn't know that l was
under the rack when you were ques- /
honing me-
"You doubtless acquitted yourself |