Show i I Doctors Doctor's Enormous Fees In the medical world some enormous fees have been paid from time to time In 1762 the famous physician cian clan Thomas Dimsdale was summoned to St. St Petersburg to vaccinate the Empress Em Em- press Catherine II He was in the city less than a week but so successfully successfully successfully success success- fully did he accomplish the task that he was paid a consideration of in addition to a life Jle pension of oo a year Another costly vaccinating operation operation op op- was wad that performed a few years ago by Dr Butler upon six Indian Indian In In- dian rajahs and from each of his patients patients patients pa pa- he re received elved for less than thana a days day's work When King Edward or the J Prince of Wales as as' as he was was then lay at deaths death's door with typhoid fever the famous William Jenner was Wa called in for a a. period of or four weeks weeks- and andri In ri return he was paid at the rate of 2500 a week and given a baronetcy in the bargain Nor was It by any means unusual for him to receive a fee of for tor an hours hour's consultation with less cele celebrated rated patients But royalty invariably pays their medical attendants highly The late hate Sir Morell Mackenzie Journeyed to Berlin Ber Ber- lin hit to relieve the sufferings of or the Emperor Frederick dl ng his last ill illness illness illness ill ill- ness and secured a fee nf M f while Prof of Moscow 1 who was called caned to Lavidia when the Czar Alexander Alexander Alexander Alex Alex- ander III lay dying was presented resented with a check for in to all expenses for a two days days' a tend tend- ance upon his illustrious patient y nr r. r the famous oculist pocketed i fee of for attending the Shahs Shah's son at Teheran some years ago ago ago-a. a figure fig ure completely put Into the shade by that captured by an English army surgeon sur sur- geon who paid occasional lonal visits to the Rajah of India when that potentate was suffering from front an acute attack of rheumatism The patient did not wait walt for him to send in his bill for finding his treatment beneficial he rewarded him with a draft for tor The highest medical fee ever paid however became the property of a blind physician Dr Gale of or Bristol I who cured a wealthy patient of a diseased knee by electric treatment and In return found account richer b by Pearsons Pearson's Pearson's Pearsons Weekly |