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Show BINGHAM PHYSICIANS DOING GOOD WORK While the camp is In the grip of the greatest and most destructive epi-Jemic epi-Jemic which ever vleited this country i it is but proper to make some men-i men-i tion of the valiant work now being done by the Bingham doctors. There are only three doctors In Bingham, I Dr. Btraup, Dr. Flynn and Dr. Ray, and they have been, and are now working night and day to relieve the sick and afflicted. In normal times there have been six and sometimes seven practicing physicians In the camp, but a number of them responded respond-ed to the call for war aid, and now while, the need of medical attention is greater than ever before in the history of the camp, when the work is more than doubled, the few remaining remain-ing physicians are confronted with an immense task. Dr. Straup's hospital has been filled fill-ed almost to overflowing for several weeks with patients and he Is exerting exert-ing every energy to see that they have the best attention possible. In .dd:tion to the work of Dr. Flynn he has himself just recovered from an attack of the influenza and two of his ch.'ldren have been desperately sick with the disease. Dr. Ray is now caring for more sick than is customary cus-tomary for two doctors at their busiest busi-est season. And Uie manner in which they are all working in the interest of the people deserves praises equal to those who have faced the enemy on the firing line.. With reference to the work the Bingham doctors are doing it is difficult dif-ficult to put in mere words the commendation com-mendation they are due. People think of this more now than on ordinary ordi-nary occasions because no one knows now whose time will be next. What George W. Bagby said of the doctors of his community is very applicable to the doctors of this section. His story, "A . Piece About Doctors, makeB Interesting reading at this time and below we are fyinganex-traet fyinganex-traet tfemrhis- aftle1cirwTrfTffrr ten many years ago: "To the doctors I owe more than I can ever repay. I think that In this world It happens not seldom that they who would be prince In generosity, and give and give forever, are not only debarred from giving, but are forever doomed to receive; and I believe be-lieve that in the great book of the recording re-cording angel there are pages upon pages filled with credits of gratitude which found no voice for the very shame of mere words of requital, and because the fitting deed could not go but to the savers of mankind. And then, oh then, there should be a supper, sup-per, such a supper, a supper of the gods, an Olympian feast compounded I for the special delectation of doctors, from which not one of you r hould rise till he felt too rich to accept a cent from A. T. Stewart or William B. Astor. And then 1 would consider myself moderately even with a few of you. v 'However 111 paid and often unpaid physicians may be. they have the consolation con-solation of "knowing that eminence and success In almost every other calling and profession is a selfish success limited in good effects to the man and his immediate family; where as in medicine great success Is based, necessarily upon great and wide spread beneficence. To even moderately moder-ately distinguished medical men there must come thrills of pleasure so supreme that only the minister of the gospel who feels that he has been the instrument of saving a soul can hope to taste a pleasure at all comparable com-parable with It. , . ( "Faithful keepers of the great seal of ifamily secrets, trusty wardens of the Ineffably precious health of our loved ones, silent and pitying witnesses wit-nesses of human suffering and human hu-man weakness, who shall rightly tell your worth, and with what patent of nobility shall ye be fitly honored! Statistics show that man for man, your profession has fewer culprits than any other whatsoever. The simple sim-ple figures, unfeeling and unflattering, unflatter-ing, bear testimony to the lofty virtue vir-tue of your calling. It is the hope of humanity, and there is reason for the hope, that the day will come when there shall be no more great lawyers, for there shall be no more litigation; whoft there shall be no more great warriors, because 'wars shall have ceased; and when even the need for great statesmen shall have passed, lwj"WfcfrlcTW-TtrtriVd-TBq infirmities thatS demand legislative correction or restraint. But that day can never come on this earth when men will not die. A healthy race, obedient to the laws of right living, will require few doctors (doctors truly that their chief functions will then be the teaching cf sanitary principles, and the mode of life demanded for the highest physical development!; but these few will be crowned with the laurel that once rested only upon the brow of the soldier, and with the boys that were reserved solely for hand in hand with the farm well welling up from a profoundly thankful thank-ful heart. "Ah, gentlemen, had I my way there would not be wanting some large silver watches and some moderately mod-erately high priced snuff boxes for a good many of you. But in earnest if I were a millionaire, I do not believe be-lieve that all the stinginess incident to that affliction could keep me from setting rich men an example of honor hon-or done to those that richly deserve to be honored. Currington should clear for me the m.ost spacious room In the exchange. It should be most beautifully beau-tifully and becomingly decorated. There I would gather the brightest men and the loveliest women in the land, and my doctors from far and near should be there. At a fitting hour I would command the peace, and then oome silver tongued Keiley or Stringfellow, gifted in speech, should say the splendid words that ought to be said In praise of your noble profession. pro-fession. The sweetest girls In all Virginia, a doctor's daughter most likely, should in the eyes of that brilliant bril-liant assembly, pin to your coat lapels lap-els the badge (newly Instituted by myaelf) of the Knightly Order of the Golden iPill. No. 1 I do not jest. She should decorate you with the cross of the Legion of True Honor, in that it would be given, not to the slayers. the jurist ana tne statesman. "The mind makes many pictures, and this is one that often delights me. In the realm where there will be no use for doctors, but where many doctors shall be, it shall come to pa6s that beside the river of . living liv-ing waters, and urder the trees whose leaves are for the healing of the nations, na-tions, each upon his little knoll of emerald sword, the good doctors of this world shall be Beated. Celestial airs, zorne from the trembling wires of harps attuned to praise the Great Physician, and mingled with the df vine odors of amaranth and asphodel, shall pass by on the soft, pulsing breeze. And around each doctor shall be the host, small or great as the case may be, of them to whom he ministered on earth. They shall press forward with lips no longer dumb, with hands no longer afraid to tell by their clasp what even the lips might not like to say, and with eyes blazing full and warm from the unmasked un-masked soul. And from lips and hands and eyes shall come measureless re-quittal. re-quittal. And the little ones, the little ones whose first wall and whose last sigh the good doctors heard, Bhall come with purest kisses and cherubic palms, with uch sweet thanks and caressing as only the always angels know. And then, the picture falls softly and slowly away." |