Show DOCTORS AND DOCTORS Last week we published that some Mome learned professor pro pro- lessor fessor was arraigning the m medical education c given r. sr id i d rits in m Chicago A day later came arne a dispatch s saying ing there was a determination which was gaining gain ing strength to lessen the quan quantity it p and improve the quality of the doctors And now we have before before be be- fore us a set of papers urging t that lat we take tak anand a hand nand in n urging congress to pass the bill aiming at the suppression of quacks and fakirs as enemies ene ene- jules mies of the Ve We V c arc are not very eloy much impressed with either the appeals or the thc criticisms Twenty students go through a medical c college two or Ol three of them arc Fe born surgeons two or three of them arc born physicians they know lino almost b by intuition when a a p person ron i 5 ill illand and what ails him or her The rhe others can cr ans answer ever every qu question stion in the book b but t they do not succeed as as practitioners for the reason leason that they made matte a mit mistake e Vh when the they chose tLe the medical profession ion for a life work One bo boycan boy boycan can take a shingle and a a couple of sticks sticks' and a j aid aad in ten teu minutes can have hare a wheel rl running in th the h stream am near Dear b by Another boy hoy equally bright could not learn t to saw iw a bo board rd off straight in five years Put them both in ina a a polytechnic polytechnic poly poly- te school chool let them hot both gr graduate they can answer all aU the questions Hunt th thorn them m up ten years yeRn l rater later tel and you rou will find th that t one is nn sin nn accomplished hed engineer ready and able to undertake rake any engi engineering n i- i feat The other you will find find a county surveyor s somewhere and when you question lU tion the people who have employed him they will tell you that he never did run a line straight never made madea mades s a perfect plat that his mathematics or his' his eyes or something is wrong a and ul d that he is no more fit for an engineer than would be a blind man Thorn ThorA is no use to deno denounce nee him ho he has studied hard he has tried to do what he could Th The trouble is he never should have tried to be an au engineer Take ake these same two boys and aud let them study forthe for forthe the ministry The rhe bo boy p that could not saw the board off oft str straight ight is a most persuasive ive pre preacher cher he has that gift which can an call attract and hold mcp's men's mens attention the gr grace ce of of- the Lord is upon and nd he i iff ili a most successful preacher The rho Theother other othel one the one that made th the water wheel is the stupidest kind of a a minister His sermons are arc a waste of time His cong congregation eg calls him hima i a bore And all the trouble is from the fact that one one ue was educated to what he had I d an adaptability for the other was not And Ah it its it's 8 so o with the medical p profession sion A great many young men study to he be physicians physician and sur- sur geons eons They s say P to themselves v s Other people have become great in this profession ion I will be for as as much brain as any of them The mistake mis t take kc they make is that brain in ir only half the mal makeup If of a 8 great physician Hes He's got to have aheart aheart a aheart heart a heart so flO big and aud tender that when he sees an hysterical woman all feeling of indifference for her hen Yani vanishes hes and be hes he's 6 only in interested in h r f nervous condition with a great leat desire in his heart t to get her nerves so 80 that the evil vil spirit in her bel may paiS pass away The file books tell the when a man has sm smallpox or typhoid or the theother theother i other di diseases and they give the remedies s which i I 1 th the J pok-i pok ok lre cribe for driving away the That much all nil men mell ca ca cai learn I but there is is a de deeper per something about a aph ph physicians physician's work To ro be successful he ho has to have that six t l l nse so that when he Loks 1 in the face of f a cc mi nil or sick iek woman be he is not thinking at atall atan all an of 01 what he read real up in college he isn't 1 thinking thinking think think- ing lag at all aU of any of the precedents i ii iu the books he ho is analyzing z ng th tha nature of the patient going back baek to iio IO real hidden cause canse of tile the malady that h hn he may attack that In a little while he is called d da a most successful doctor Then there are ale men who graduate n as its physicians who fail as practitioners but who knowing nothing nothing noth noth- ing jug else elEe and having no special scruples give a little little lit lit- tle tic study to sonic some particular branch branci of the tho science and then thc they advertise extensively They p either cither get men and ana women to certify to what they have done or tile they write up the certificates themselves and sign them by some sonic imaginary name and so impose upon people Congress is trying r ing to stop this his These These papers papers that come to us represent that thata a league has been formed to stop that kind of work We do 10 not believe it will succeed because e em m men n and women v mon in ill this count country 1 knowing that they they- Y are free are determined to do what th they please and wh when n they feel fee badly and the local physician fails to relieve that fe feeling they arc are arcain fain ain to write rite to some advertised advertise specialist for his prescription and the hope which is awakened when it is given very often works the cure We see seo no euro cure o for this sort of practice except through educating edu edu- cating the people up to the point that the they r will shrink from any charlatan that will thus advertise him himself elf The fhe cure for it all is a sounder education in the homes in the first place plaGe aud and then a sel selection of the men who hi may map be permitted to study in order to graduate as ph physicians Until that time comes when a man or woman feels badly and the local physician docs does not immediately relieve the feeling they thep are prone to write to some one who is supposed sup sup- posed to have an extensive e practice They do not know how many victims the bogus doctor has counted against him the they only know they feel lcd ball badly they want relief Who Vho who said that thata a sucker was born every minute 7 |