Life — June 12, 1902 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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just as much as by the operations he performs. Every doctor should read this able paper. A correspondent writes to know the differ- ence between a sanitarium and a sanitorium. Answer: From twenty-five to one hundred dollars a week. A bill of one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, brought by a Western doctor against the estate of one of his wealthiest patients, is thought to be excessive by the executors. They seem to think the claim is much more aggravated by the fact that the patient died while under the doctor's care, and that as a matter of honor he should have been less grasping. Suppose that all physicians who lost patients should consult their consciences before sending in their bills, Why, they wouldn’t make a living. Life's College Contest. THE announcement of the winner of Lirk’s College Contest for the month of May will be made in the next issue of Lire. The contest will be continued until further notice, a prize of Twenty-five Dollars being awarded under the conditions which TWENTIETH CENTURY CRUSADERS. will be found elsewhere in this paper. Medical Notes. Making Dates for This Season’s Appearances. ietbe anelal oats OrFice or THE MARINE AMUSEMENT Co., Unfathomed Caves of Ocean, THE recent smallpox scare 4 June, 1902 is on the wane. Quite a number of new cases are re- Manager Sea View House ported each day, but the news- Bar Harbor, Me. papers are not printing as much Dear Sir: sbouvit ea they, did: In reply to your favor of recent date I hasten to say that Iam now making engagements for the second week in August; it would thus be impossible for me to appear in : your Bay before that time. I trust thata season in August stances of young ambulance ‘ surgeons who have mistaken heart ™&Y be satisfactory to you; in July I am to give several disease or apoplexy, on the part of performances upon your coast some degrees south of you, those whom they have found stricken 0d do not favor long jumps. down, and by erroneously calling the _ My rates are as follows : case a “plain drunk,” have not only lost the patient's life, but Season of one (1) week, 2 performances....... -8 500 cast a stigma over his name. It must be remembered, however, Season of two (2) weeks, 3 performances .. that it is a time-honored custom to employ in this important work Liberal reduction for longer periods. only those raw medical students who are entirely ignorant of the practice of surgery or medicine, and this is the best and cheapest . BXTEAS. way that they can learn, If lives are lost through their errors, it Chasing rowboat.....+++0seessereesssseereeeeeeeeees is only that they may learn enough to know better next time. Driving bathers from surf...... We regret to say that up to date the various operations for re- Hoping that I may serve you, believe me to be, moving the stomach have not been successful. Just as everything My Dear Sir, seemed most favorable, the patient would invariably die. This, Yours Coilfally, however, should not deter members of the medical profession from Dic. S, P. SeaseR Pent. persevering. Should any doctor succeed in keeping alive a stomachless patient for even six months or a year, his reputation Not Her Forte. would be made. In a paper recently read before the Medical Congress at Prague, “* CHE says she would like to get away somewhere where Dr. Hambolt pointed out very conclusively just what the duties of sho would have time to think.’ a specialist should be. The reputation of a specialist, he insisted, _‘* Well, I always feared she wasn't cut out for a society is measured by the size of the fees which he is able to collect, girl.’ Several papers have recently commented on the fact that there have been so many in- comicbooks.com