Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-02
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
remedy which he now takes Is wasted.
It does no good now; 1t is too late.
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remedy which he now takes Is wasted
It does no good now; 1t is too late.
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We know one Washintonian Of large
managerial Office who often retires at
an early hour If for any reason he does
not feel "up to standard"
This man, of many activities, whose
energy during the day Is amazing, will
go to bed at 8 pm. If he believes 1t
necessary.
He has learned the simple remedy of
proper rest. Yet thousands OF human
beings have not learned it. They are
like the foolish motorists who are ready
and willing to run the risk of q COLI
sion in order TO save two seconds, when
, ell the time they have more time at
their command than they know what to
do. with.
A proper rest, combined with the
exercise Of common sense and the use
of easy home remedies, known to most
people. will do more than any one
thing to stop the commoner ills.
Almost every one has headache
at some time or other, or feels a cold
coming on, or becomes "out Of sorts"
with himself and the world.
Why should he bother busy medical
man, when by the exercise Of intelli-
gence he can cure himself and leave the
doctor to devote his energies and skill
to more serious cases?
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Those who once come to this conclu-
sion will find their activities along this
line taking on all the interest of a
good game of solitaire.
It becomes a contest, with disease, on
one hand fighting it out with the in
dividual, on the other.
KJafN AI1A 1aSNl lie
the stakes.
She also, many believe, supplies the
cure. However that may be, there is
little gainsaying that this contest is an
interesting one, and the individual soon
becomes as absorbed in 1t as a spectator
at foot ball game. He begins to realize
one of the destinations of the medical
profession to the genuine medical man.
Doctoring, he realizes, Is not just dos
ing, and dosing again, but Is a con-
test in which skill and intelligence and
watchful waiting all play prominent
roles.
Sometimes he begins to feel that
waiting is the one ingredient without
which Nature would throw up her
hands. Watchful waiting is the strange
interlude in which both skill and in
telligence have an opportunity to play
their parts.
Every one who has ever been III In
more than ordinary degree, or who has
sat at the bedside Of such a patient,
has felt upon occasion a certain sense
of resentment at what seemed almost
indifference on the part Of the attend
ing physician.
His better instincts told him. however,
that it was not indifference, but wait
ing, maSterful waiting, watching for
symptoms, watching for changes, eye
and hand and mind cooperating to do
all that the profession attempts to do
and so often succeeds in doing.
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The person who believes in the old
saying, "a man is either a fool or his
own physician by the time he Is thirty"
will find it expedient to know more than
the average person about the workings
of the human system.
This study viii lead him into curious
and interesting reading but will never
give him the idea that he Is In any
sense a doctor, or taking the place of
one. He simply Is using his God-given
intelligence. If more people would do
that, the world would be better place
to live in.