The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-30
CULTIVATION OF 4 NEUROTiC
 DISPOSITION

Before we begin today let's make sure we misunderstood ono another, You teii me you nave ncrcycg, 1 know it. We all nave 'cni as long us we live. But you keep right on coming at mo with your nerves, and when dinidehty intimate that nerves bad nerves, weak nerves or what have you in tho nerve line cannot ac. count for your disturbance of health you get off some low crack about that being what one might expect from person who doesn't prusn now. Here's n contribution from reader who has iittlc school for nervous imposition right in her own home. At present she has one pu- pil but another will matriculatc next terin and charactcristcaiiy enough, the preceptress ls Mrendy worrying about the education of thls prospective pupil. But lot her tell 1t:
 T have iItte s'rl aged who sSory is per. er
 aSsei aSe vet t" on the % slightest provocaton she
 VomIts. The finest pediatriclans in the city
 say It's habit and nothing else but tncy
 offer no remedy for such a habit ="
 A pediatrioan is a physician who purpors to limit his practice to the diseases of children but seldom if over excludes patients who are grown up. Some good physicians hold them. selves out as pediatrieianS hn. Ms when n,ss s ,s to-day for such c speciality In medicine. The truth is it makes comfy racket II ' doctor is too tired to carry on general practice or 'ns ca apab bie of building up ono but in conmand or sufficient capital to support him for n rev years while he waits for enough people to learn ne Is a "chiId specialist" In tho halcyon days or Holt and Jacobi the baby specialist business was val enough, for in those days tho great men were still 'prenouncing" opinions or ver- diets and there was not much In the way or diagnostic methods of precision to cast any pale doubts on tho eminent specialists pro. nouncamentos. When they decided that solid trlgonometry was tho only proper way to pre- paro the baby's bottle the rank and hie of tho profession had to quit figuring the forinuln with simple algebra or 1t was Just too bad for tho piker family doctor--hs well to do pa- tlonts would run out on him and spend hectic weokends In Hickviiie getting tho latest datu from the masters themselves.
 Tho day Of the baby or child specialist is over, and happily so, for after all babies arc peopie and # Q phyDcian Is not skilled h the treatment of grown folks hc Is probably no mora capable of dealing with sick children. T think tho best evidence of the truth of this IS tho name and fame of tho beloved pr Abra- ham Jacobi. There was the srcatest pedla; trician America has produced. and pr Jacobl was n general practitioner throughout ms long and illustrous professional life. what this ridden land needs to-day Is a now deal in medicine, a reform In the specialsip now fostered by our notionai medical organization. n thorough housecleaning of tho ''elnic' evil which is destroying the finest traditions Of the profession, and m unequivocnl repudiation by tho medical societies of the brass spcclalism that enables commercailism and quackery 10 put on a cruelty deceptive air of responsibility.
 Now lot the preceptross proeeed--oh, oh, the bell--weli, then we'll aesufne her story another day, fHt.t