Show SHAKER DOCTOR your scribe Us annil a pleasant chat with tile th stinker shelter doctor Doc loritt at ills suit of 0 bloomi in the walker house ile he wits waa welcomed into abia doctors presence just at the close of 0 onice office houra houm mid and after the doctor ind had finished what seemed to your reporter a task so BO arduous that he prepared himself for or a hasty dismissal but was assured that la social visit was a relief relict to him highly appreciated at any time and aspe especially after fatiguing onico beat houra rov asked your scribe doctor are you the man mail who in the east is called the old shaker do doctor clor oh nay the old shaker doctor Is 19 a man rapidly approaching approach ing the tour four score and ten mark while I 1 am but a little post past half ot of that being fifty four my next birthday well doctor you are the man who la is at the licad of the active bu business interests of the institution are arc you note not nay the old doctor Is at its head head does he endeavor to transact busl business of tills this immense volume at such an age ace yea he I 1 Is an active old man not yet white haired though the silver streaks are rapidly appearing we expect him to pay us a visit ore ere we vve leave here and have written him of 0 many ot of the beauties of your city thi the scenery enery tic surrounding it and of the delightful climate doctor really axe are you not contemplating locating here permanently find and establishing in the practice or of medicine nay indeed nay it A would be foolish for me to entertain such an idea the tha city has an ail abundant supply ot of physicians physician many of whom are a as good and tho thorough tough in their as ran can bo be found aral an where then why did you attend medical lectures tures and graduate ili medicine if yota you dirl did not care to practice 11 1 1 I 1 not only attended lecou lectures r es and graduated but have taken post bradu ate courses and have practiced in hospitals have also been in general practice where my charges were ien dollars each visit but tile irregular life necessary to this would not perm permit it of long continuance and as I 1 v atas as in practice in connection with the present business and for the purpose of 0 studying the therapeutic action of medicines to better enable us to prepare them in proper formulae this Is not only my work but the work or of all the shakers who he choose tho the profession of oc medicine ine it Is 13 required of them that they devote a a certain length of time after graduation to general find and special p practice rae and take postgraduate post graduate cour ses ca at k t tho the present time we artt are confident that ne MC have specifies for the greater number of the ills ilia common to humara humanity ltv there are none of them prepared without thorough investigation by the board of compounding examiners were we to enter into practice the good we are now doing suffering humanity would cost an untold amount of money nearly or quite two hundred times as much as it now does and I 1 truly think the benefits would not be one bit greater because in general practice L we ve use the same fame medicines that we are now selling and we naver put a a purchaser to tn an any risk be because caule the shakers shaker guarantee all the medicines they make and refund price it if benefit or cure does docs not result from its use |