Life — September 17, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: “While there's Life there's VOL. XVIII. SEPTEMBER 17th, 1891. 28 West Twesty-THirp Streer, New York. Published every Thursday. copies 10 cents. 1., bound, $30.6 cents per copy. $5.00 per volume. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. PROPOS of the ness of sundry physicians as fficacy of a certain new specific said to be a remedy for drunkenness, our contemporary, the Buffalo Commercial, remarks that $5.00 year in advance, postage free. Back numbers can be had by ng to this office. Vol. Vol. II, bound. $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, Vols, IIT. to XVI, inclusive, bound or in flat numbers, at incredulous- to the “itis a well-known fact that there is no set of men as slow as medical practitioners to accede to sugges- tions that are not in line with old TOLCAN—A STUFID ANDIAL rf WITHA VERY LaRGe Bit, Practice, We believe the Commercial is right. em to laymen inordinately skeptical about accept- ing some things that are matters of common notoriety. Nevertheless it should be said for them that it is a peculiar obligation in their business not to be misled by appearances, At any rate the doctors s and there is probably no class of phenomena as to which appearances are so deceptive as cures. A cure may be only apparent, or it may be real but not lasting; or, if real and permanent, it may be due to something altogether different from what the uninstructed observer supposes. HEN a physician is called to observe the working — of some irregular therapeutic agency he first denies the illness, then doubts the cure, then its permanency, and tinally demonstrates that it was due to something quite different from what the irregular operator has averred. In a great many cases the doctors are right, but if they are not unduly prone toderide what they do not understand, their reputation does them injustice. How ready they are to accept novel theori that come properly accredited was apparent in the enthusiastic welcome given to the Koch consumption cure, and the tol- erant reception of the Brown-Sequard Elixir. But, given facts enough, even the doctors will notic ‘The multiplicity of faith-cures, mind-cure them. Christian science cures, and other idiosyncracies of irregular healing, seems to have made an impression, since the newspapers have in- creased numbers of stories of hospital cases in which physical results are sought by means of impressions made upon the mind. There seem to be a good many cases in which, if the mind can be cured, the cure of the body will follow. But the cure of the mind is a matter fit for the most expert handling, and is a profession in itself. HE truth is that there is ever prospect that the coming doc tor must be ready to add to the knowledge that he has already, the accomplishments and convictions of his clerical brother. It seems to. be becoming apparent that the body and the soul are too inextricably mixed up for cither to be suce fully dealt with apart from the other. The man who cannot tackle both and make them work together for their proprietor’s comfort, may as well resign himself to see a certain class of patients, or at least a certain class of diseases, go up the front steps of his competitor who. can, ARV ORD that the “The Anglomaniacs a new novel for an English series which “ will be written and illustra- ted exclusively by gentlewomen.” The English name of the series to be “The Victoria Library for Gentlewomen,” but of course when the United States edition comes out that title will be Americanized into “ The * For Ladies Only.’ Library,” and the series will be popular on the news stands. Nevertheless it will be too bad, and LIFE condolences are hereby tendered to the author of * The Anglomaniacs ” in advance. comes uthor of Y the way, do you believe inthe ‘ain-makers ? The story about one is that he makes no se and has no visible apparatus, but shuts himself up and produces showers through a hole in the roof. It doesn’t sound like a likely story, but who is anyone that he should deny anything in these days because it seems un- likely! Who feels any certainty that the fying machine man won't have his apparatus in working order in time for the Chicago Fair? Who is going to be any more than ordinarily surprised if word comes some morning that the Keely Motor has moted in the night? Or, that the Democratic party has learned the difference between a statesman like Grover and a local politician like Hill? Rum times, these are, and any- one who sets out to be sure that anything isn’t so, has got to use discretion in choosing what to be sure of. comicbooks.com