Show r Brave Dr Rnbbcth Does one ever hear of a 1 medical man who lacks courage There is a 1 sad story told in the newspapers today of a doctors gallantry and devotion A child at the GraysInnRoad Free Hospital Hos-pital was suffering from diphtheria and the operation of tracheotomy was performed In order to remove the matter that had accumulated in the childs throat it became necessary to suck it through a tube and this was done by the senior medical officer Dr Samuel Rabbeth The doctor however how-ever caught the disease and we regret II to say died last night a 1 victim to a 1 I noble and courageous sense of duty I Such acts are fortunately not rare in our I hospital wards and infirmaries but they j i assuredly deserve some recognition when they are recorded Most menmost I Englishmen at any ratewe suppose are not deficient in a certain kind of physical I phy-sical bravery but the bravery required to charge a 1 battery of machine guns or even what Napoleon called H the 2 oclock in the morning courage which he claimed and which his enemies denied him might fall before such an ordeal as I that incurred by the young medical officer Dr Rabbeth it appears was only in his 28th yearSt JamesGazette |