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Show ENGLISH DOCTOR'S FEES. Larger than In Other Countries and Fortunes Have Been Amassed. Perhaps the physicians of England receive larger fees than their brother practitioners in other countries of the world. The greatest medical feature of the century, as might have been expected, ex-pected, has fallen to the lot of Sir William Jenner, who died a short time ago at the ripe old age of 83 years. Sir ' William, who was always liberal in his expenditure and his charities. left a personal estate of the value of 395,-000. 395,-000. In his palmiest days Sir William more than once made 2,000 by ' a single week's work, although naturally natur-ally his average earnings were much below this amount. He himself, however, how-ever, estimated his aggregate professional profes-sional income- for the last 30 years of his active life at Over half a million mil-lion pounds sterling, and yet this king of doctors has been ' known ' to travel to a distant suburb and take a two-guinea two-guinea fee with a smile arid a "Thank you." Some of the largest recorded medical fees, however, fall to his lot, and he is said to have received 20,-I00 20,-I00 for his attendance on the late prince consort and the Prince of Wales during their two serious, and in one case fatal, illnesses. Sir William Gull, who had nine years less of life, amassed 344,023, the second medical fortune of the century; Sir Andrew Clark, with a still shorter life, accumulated accu-mulated 146,746. It is significant that some of the medical men who have reapted the largest harvests have been proprietors of private asylums. Dr. Paul, proprietor of the Camberwell House Private Asylum, amassed over 100,000, and Dr. William Wood, of the Priory Private Asylum, Roehamp-ton, Roehamp-ton, left 67,000. Fifteen physicians -who have died quite recently left behind be-hind them an aggregate fortune of 2,000,000, or the gratifying average savings of 133,000. Sir Morell' Mackenzie Mac-kenzie is said to have received 20,-000 20,-000 for attending Frederick the Noble, but at his death left only 21,953, These fortunes become Intelligible when we consider that a fashionable physician frequently earns from 100 to 200 guineas in a-couple of hours' morning morn-ing consultations, and that there are many days on which his fees amount to 300 guineas or more. 'An Ordinary! fee ' for attending a patient at a distance dis-tance of 200 miles from town would ba 250 guineas, and ' for an operation at this distance a fashionable surgeon would get considerably more. Utlca Glob.e |