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Show How Vandcrbilt Played Into the Jaws of Death. New Yobk, December 14 Dr. J. W. Mc-Lane, Mc-Lane, Professor of Obstetrics in the College of Physicians" and Surgeons, and family physician of the late Wm. H. Vanderbilt, in j a rcmlar lecture in the college on Saturday ! saidto the students : "Mr. Vanderbilt's death teaches us as physicians one lesson upon J which we may reflect I menn th evil of i overwork. Mr. Vanderbilt was possessed of an excellent constitution, fine physique and great muscular power. He should . have lived, with these advantages, many years longer. Since his father's death, eight years ago, he has lived, measuring by work and care, fully twenty years. This laid the foundation of , arterial changes, which resulted re-sulted in the rupture of a large vessel in the brain. He was not without warning. He often asked me if he would be taken off suddenly. sud-denly. I replied, yes. The duty of the physician phy-sician is not so much to give drugs for the cure of present ills as to prevent their occurrence oc-currence by proper advice tending toward a regulation of the mode of life. Most railroad rail-road men have started their lives by either not having proper advice in this respect, or by not heeding it. A notable example is the case of Mr. Scott." . . v . |