The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-11-21
THE DOCTORS AND
THE INFLUENZA
A PREACHMENT.

(Reuben Lux, in Hood River News
In some respects doctors are like
some other people and in some re-
spects they are quite different. Some
doctors are en- the make and some
are not, just like some LAWYERS.
Like choosing an honest mule. YOU
cannot rely on his looks, but you
must find an honest doctor by ex-
perience and sometimes that is
m re bitter Ian his medicine.
That is how the term bitter ex-
pclience' originated But, like the
lawyer and the male, the rank and
file are generally honest, the supply
| dishyEe5t Cncs being regulated
Ehg!iv 0y the demand
There was a time when people
lived TO great age. According to
hoiy arit, Adcm lived nine hundred
and thirty years. The very earliest
dea-h II the gen ora lion Of Adam
vas Neal, aad he died at the i'm
mature age Of five hundred years.
ss,Ea5claA .c2led the apex If long
i-e fpl dams camily, nine hundred
and sXty-nine years. But that was
before DR.. Harvey discovered that
fio0d circuiates through tfy human
system. Drs. Bright and DiaLetes
haG not then hl,ched their narI5g 10
a Ridney trouble, and DE-. Sewer had
not yec discovered his gas. Adam
and his sons and his grandsons and
his great grandsons and his great
great srandsons seemed to enjoy
life quite we'll and were satisfied to
stick around for hundreds of years,
oven if they did not know anything
about blood circulating, kidney
troubles, liver complaints, sewer gas,
or that they had an appendix which,
no doubt, shortened their days.
From the records we learn they
prayed much and took more catnip
tea. Whether prayer and tea had
anything to do with their longevity,
Reuben is not to be the Judge. But
the facts are recorded in Holy Writ,
and as no doctors are mentioned, we
must assume that they did not
patronize the corner drug store, and
they seemingly got along very we'll
on home remedies.
We are told that the Indian lived
to great age before civilization came
along to shorten his days. before the
medicine doctor got chance at him.
Like great many other necessary
evils, the doctor always travels in
the van of civilization; the first
signs on the frontier we're always
drug store, doctors office, an
undertaken and Methodist church
These were sure signs of advancing
civilization, and the next permanent
establishment was cemetery.
Elephants, ii is said, in their wild
state lived to great age. But
capture one and put veterinary
after him with his drugs and tina.
elephant will die a premature and
lamentable death.
About all the trouble to the hu-
man race seems to be caused by
jealous doctors, the would-be leaders
of the profesh, who are all the time
trying to hitch their names to some
human ailment as old as Chinese
history, then by their discovery (l
chase everyone towards = doctors
Office to ward off the malady that
IL about to overtake him and his
family. Now that is about what
has and is happening right now. 1t
is largely matter of psychology.
The influenza" is nothing more
than the grippe, discovered CD by
DR.. La Grippe some twenty-odd
years ago, aggravated several times
by scare dope thrown onto the
public. Every newspaper is filled
with scare ads calclated to make you
feel, by imagination, that chill
shooting up and down your spine,
and you either phone for the doctor