Show j i rf MM M MH I M M M t I 4 4 4 4 t s-s s 1 J THE DOCTORS DOCTORS' REWARD 1 I f J. J t 44 1 M t M I 4 M H M t 4 M I U t 44 6 H M M 4 M M M M M fi M t s- s 0 I t Th The e. e Medical I e d. d I News 1 ma makes 1 es a pI plain am statement statE t f concerning concerning what it believes to be the duty of Con Con- 1 ingress tress toward the doctors who attended the late t President r McKinley I Kinle in his d ng hours U pub flics lic's are said to be ungrateful sa says s 's the s News and riot not without reason since it is Js the tIle ah almost 1 st invariable lesson that services services- rendered io history by bj citizens i II to o. o rep republican bican governments were never properly i I 1 I J. J I I 1 k 1 1 I i. i I C r ItelL k j rewarded Many other things were said of republics republics lies that have han been belied by our own great lie lic licIt It remains for us to I see C that the blot of republican lican ingratitude in shall no rio longer hold good The responsibility assumed was was was' extremely weighty The Tho unfortunate termination of the c case casei uc i efa not lessen the tle moral responsibility of the na na- national government to provide due compensation for this If the tile autopsy had revealed re that any mistake mis take had been made the professional pi reputations i of those of-those those in immediate charge would probably have been ruined forever fore The surgeons in in attendance literally staked their future c career upon the exercise exercise exercise exer exer- cise of their judgment and professional skill under the distressing and d inconvenient circumstances in which they were placed The surgeons in attendance att On jn President dent Garfield were treated with scant courtesy and miserly cons consideration un nfl unbefitting befitting a great nation If it w re not inconsonant with true patriotism great surgeons would have bit elt the necessity for to have anything to tl Ift w with eases cases of f national importance thereafter The Old did ld disgrace must be wiped out I There is no class of men not men not excepting the tile cler clergy y possibly more possibly more unselfish in their devotion to the high principles of their profession than are arc tl the e medical men They are servants of humanity il in ill the noblest sense of the term The most splendid skill of the physician and surgeon was placed at the nations nation's service when its late Chief Executive was shot No price w was s asked but the service was rendered ren ten dered b ause humanity and patriotism appealed The fhe men who wai waited cd so anxiously so unselfishly so fa faithfully at the bedside of the martyred McKin McKinley in ley le ought to be paid what they earned Yea they y yo o ought to be given an exceeding great reward |