Life — November 27, 1902 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Diary of a Doctor. ONDAY: This Mena to be T\ a big week. Started in well. Weather me” very fa- B vorable. Damp and muggy. Mra. Smythe tele- phoned yester- day. Nothing particular the matter with her, but thinks she has something. I can go there once a day for at least a week. I must see Bal- lington to-day. Looks like appendicitis. Hope so. He has done so well in Wall Street, Means a thousand sure. Turspay: This smallpox scare has helped me out greatly. I vaccinated four- teen swell children yesterday at three dol- lars each. This is pretty good. Besides, they are all likely to have complications. Fellow came in this morning with cough. Tuberculosis, sure! I'll tell him he has A MATTER OF SHAPE. now 18 1 pone? slight bronchial trouble and jolly him along for six months. Wepsespay: Two cases of diphtheria yesterday. Filled ‘em up with serum. Wonder if that serum is any good? Some- times I think it is and sometimes I think it isn’t, Had a row yesterday with old man Clinker. Wanted to know what I was giv- ing him. Said he was old enough to know. How foolish! Look for busy and lucrative day to-morrow, Tuunspay: Have been in consul- tation all the moming. Two of us wanted to operate and two didn’t. Tossed up and my side won, Patient likely to get weil, which is a good thing, as he has money to burn. I shall send young Padder to a special- ist. He tells me his resources are ex- hausted. Fripay: The Spriggins’s got ahead of me yesterday. They began giving their baby plain milk and water that hadn't been boiled, also baked pota- toes, all directly contrary to medical science, and I'll be hanged if the kid isn't thriving on it! This will never do. My prestige is at stake. Sarurpay: I bave just been going over my accounts, Never did such a business before. Why, if this keeps up, I shall in fature be able to decline all baby cases and devote myself entirely to unnecessary opera- tions. FLERE TS area tidal wave on the sea of matrimony. COURTING INVESTIGATION comicbooks.com