The Washington times., 1935-11-21
geography Enter Into the Current Color Card of Fashion
Health
Preparing for
Profession
By LOGAN CLENDENNING, M. D.

The best movie Of the season,
according to my old friend, DR..
Adrian Gibbs, is THE Farmer
Takes a Wife,"
The greatest lesson to the
young professional man 1 ever
saw in my life is the performance
of this Mr.. Slim Summerville as
the would-be dentist.
You know, people talk a lot
lately about the difference be.
tween the art and the science OF
medicine. The young fellow now
adays in medical college spends
an awful lot Of time and all kinds
of pains are taken to show him
everything. It all looks so easy
when the professor does it, and
the student leaves school in the
mood that everything in medi'
cine is science, and such a thing
as the personality Of the patient
doesn't amount to thing.
In earlier days such as are
depicted in this movie, doctors
were humber; they didn't know
so much and they took more
pains to placate their patients.
Anxious to Learn
THE fellow in the picture had
won a pair of dental extractions
forcepS from a dentist in a
poker game, and he Immediately
decided to learn to be a dentist.
You see him with his first
patient. They are getting the
patient drunk so she can stand
the ordeal. He doesn't make
much Of a success on her so he
tries tooth extracting on every
thing he SeeS+a horse, for one.
He looks wistfully at a kitten
and says to its mistress, Don't
you want me to take a look at
that kittens teeth?" Then you
see him pulling the nails out
Of the arm Of a chair with his
extractor, for practice.
"He wins a foot-pedal dental
drill later and tries it out on
all the pots and pans he can
find.
You know, you just feel that
that fellow is going to turn out
to be a good dentist. He is so
anxious to find out about things
that he is just bound to accom-
plish his end. He is like a lot
Of young doctors I remember
graduating 80 or 40 years ago.
They didn't know much, but
they didn't pass up any oppor-
tunities Of learning.
1T is true that the modern
graduates are probably easier on
their patients. But what the
older generation learned about
practice was at first hand. 1t
was the way John Hunter
learned, and Lister, and the
Mayor-all the great surgeons
lof the last generation-and they
didn't turn out so badly.
Serious Business
There was another thing no.
ticed in that movie. There were
two fellows having a fight, and
how they did slug each other. One
of them would knock the other
20 feet, and flat on his back. But
neither of them ever was knocked
unconscious. After one of these
terrible blows, he would look up
alert and calm eyed, and get up
and start fighting again.
''It was such a contrast to the
Baer.Louis fight pictures that
went just before! When Louis hit
Baer, and Baer went down, he
didn't seem anxious to get up
again right away. And when he
did, he looked droopy instead of
alert. I understood why when I
noticed his head flop over under
one Of Louis punches. 1t couldn't
have felt good.
II suppose really those movie
fights are kind of fixed.
which differentiates them from
the regular contests, of course" he
added, with a little twinkle in his
eyes.
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