The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-03-04

knowledge that such was the case
81 remember once, about two
years ago, / took up this very
same subject with one of our
civic officials. His answer to my
plea that they give this matter
urgently needed consideration was,
why haven't we got the Mercedes?
Now please don't laugh. But gem
tlemen, this is serious subject
and I do pray you each and every
one of you to begin right now
thinking about it. Talk it, urge it
and bring it to pass that another
year viii not come and find us in
this same dilemma.
"Now my classifcation-Uro-
logist. What does it mean? /
dare say that very few if any of
you really know. ] was really
amused when my binder was
drawn, to haye one Of the fellows
take me aside and seriously adj
wise me that he thought / had
better pick out some other sub
ject on which to speak. / say ]
was amused because it only went
to prove that what / have just said
is true, namely, that very few If
any of you know what my CLASH
fication really means, and as a
matter of fact you think it means
Just what it does not, and that is
veneral diseases. Veneral diseases
are only just a small part of
urology, just as appendicitis is
only a small part of surgery.
Urology is the speciality of dag
nosing and treating all the condi-
tons and diseases connected with
the Uro-Genital tract no matter
what be their etiology. Of all the
specialties, except possibly the eye.
it is the most exact and best I'M
dertood of any of the branches of
medicine. In urology fewer mis-
takes are made in diagnosis than
in any other field of medicine. /
will say further that the urologist
is called upon repeatedly by the
surgeon, the clinician, the obstet-
rician and most of the other
branches to help them solve some
of their problems of diagnosis.
Now, for illustration, you have
heard it said that many an appen-
dix has been removed needlessly.
That is only too true, but had the
attending surgeon availed himself
of the services of the urologist it
would have been obviated.
"Why and how? Because the
appendix lies in the same general
position as the ureterz, and it is
this passage which can and does
give almost the exact clinical pie
ture and symptoms when it is in
trouble as does appendix. Had
this been investigated and looked
into before an operation was adj
yised, mayhap the appendix would
not have been unnecessarily sacri-
feed. So here is a case where the
urologist can play an important
part. There are many and many
other similar conditions in which
the urologist may be of untold aid
and service to his fellow practi-
TONERS of other fields, so many
that / shall not attempt to enum-
crate them all. With his instru-
ments of examination he can diff
ferentiate between an abscess of
the gall-bladder and the right kid
ney, he can tell whether it is the
left tube and ovary or a structure
in the left urter giving the pain,
he can tell whether the pain in the
kidney region is in the kidney or
not, and if so whether it is due
to stone or inflammation, he can
tell when blood is being passed
whether it is due to stone, tuber-
culosis or cancer, and so / may go
on enumerating endlessly the
many conditions where he may be
of service in making a diagnosis.
Like physicians of all other
branches his highest aim and
recompense is service well rem
dered. / say this, and modestly,
that ! do not believe that there is
any other profession or calling in
which the greatest reward for
work done is the service which you
have been able to render. Like all
other beings, of course, we must
have a certain amount of worldly
pecuniary reward for our susten-
ence, but / assure you that by far
the greatest of all rewards is the
favorable results from our SER
vices well rendered"