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Show LIKE TO DE HUMDUQGED. What a Woman riiralrlin hnya About tho Wnilta of I'ntleuta. TA woman physician In the city told n most remarkable thing u clay or two ago, snys the Now York fiun 'It tukes a deal of conscientiousness to keep n physician from becoming it quack," she said ' ft'b such nn easy tiling to quack when you know your patient vnnts von to, nnd that berause tho patient pa-tient w nnls it, It vamld perhnp be ben ollclal In thr Cud lly qu'iehlng I menu resorting to clnp-trup nnd unselenlitl methods, such ns the faith euro itiul it . like No ouc but n ph.slclnn has any idea how gie.lt n demand there Is for this among intelligent people ' They don't want the honest, straightforward straight-forward exhibition of the notion of drugs on the body They want n niys teiv nbout it an exhibition of healing as n divine force Koiiiotulti? that up-peals up-peals to tho imagination And because it's a subject for the Imagination the demand comh not from the ignorant and unthink.ng, but .from the most intelligent in-telligent nnd hist informed people "l lnv known some of tho most logical nnd clear-headed people in the city to oiTer such a resistance to scientific scien-tific rational measures in medical tieut ment and Insist so strongly upon some illegitimate and inadequate course, as to put the honest physician patience to its last resort "It isn t quite that they like to be humbugged. They don't know it by that, though the physician does Thev want something for the imagination to work on And that the stronghold of the quick practitioner It takes mi honest man or woman to practice med icino honestly. ,u |