Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-11-25 | Page 12 | Physicians an Longevity

Physicians and Longevity. , It has often been said that It Is not work but worry that kills Perhaps no better exemplifications of the truth of the saying tan be found thun the number of hurd-worklng physicians, occupied oc-cupied unceuslngly with greut problems prob-lems In medicine, who huve nevertheless neverthe-less lived lo what ma) well be consld-eied consld-eied an ndvanced age, says the American Ameri-can Mistical Journal Irchnw s long life of nearly 81 yearn of strenuous de-votlon de-votlon to work, so leiently rinsed, la only 11 type of the piolonhatlon of ex. istcnce and usefulness that has fortu. natel) been the lot of some of the greatest nf the medlcul Investigators longevity bus been the rule, however, not only for the luborutory worker who In thi placid preoccupation ot original obsei vutlon nvolded the distraction of mind und the diversion of activity In-ddent In-ddent on medical practice, but also for the mun who Is able to combine both sueccssfull) In fuct, while the average aver-age life of the physician Is the shortest short-est of any of the professions, most of Ihe great Investlg itlng practitioners huve lived lives so long ns tn encoutngc every medlcul mun to take up original observation. If with no othei Idea than tint of iissurlng himself longevity.