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Show CHINESE MEDICAL PRACTICE. j A physician of Springfield, Maes., baa partially adopted the Chinese nil of receiving pay fjr ktej ing his cut- j tomyre well instf-ad of Uking fees j after Uji'y are bick. H; hns tutcred iuto a contract with titty or Bixly prupl, each of whom paya him i sniali yearly fee lor Riving Lyyieuic advice aud euggChtiDg preventives ol dieaRe. He does not ro tj iite ko far as tho Chineeo phytiuian. In the cac of the latter il one of bit patients guts ill he receives no compensation, and his saliry ceaaea until the patient reeovcrj. The Springfield doctor visits his sick at half rat-a. The full Chinese Chin-ese rule is the better plau. In both countries the doctor is a necessary and highly important member of society, but here, under the ordinary system, the physician must sjarvo unless people fall sick, while there ho pros persbettwhen health prevails. Our doctors have no iuducemeuts to keep peoplo well, the encouragement being rather to increase sickness; while their physicians must prevent disease or become paupers. The Medical and Surgical Reporter cotn-mendd cotn-mendd the Springfield doctor, and thinks the uuiveisal adoption of the plan would result beneficially. By this means a physician would acquire a knowledge of his patients' habits in health, which is olten a matter of great importance to the proper treatment treat-ment of disease. The lleporler suggests sug-gests as an improvement on the eipringfiold plan, that where a patient falls ill through neglect or wilful vio lation of the hygienic rules and instructions in-structions mrniabej$ bim by the doctor he should be required to pay J double fees for medical attendance, instead of half rates. |