Life, 1915-09-30 · page 40 of 45
Life — September 30, 1915 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with one satirical article**. The main content is "From the Carver's Gazette," a mock-serious piece satirizing surgical malpractice and medical negligence. The satire describes a fictional "Dr. Aufel Bungler" who invents a serum to make patients immune to surgeons' mistakes. The joke targets early 20th-century surgeons' carelessness and profit-motive: the serum would allow doctors to work faster without consequence, benefiting their wallets while harming patients. Specific absurdities—surgeons leaving "wads of gauze, scissors, a monocle" inside patients—mock the real dangers of sloppy surgery. The article's title references "Carver's Gazette," likely a humorous medical publication. The satire advocates for surgical accountability, mocking both incompetent doctors and a legal system where wealthy surgeons escape consequences for errors. The remaining content consists of period advertisements for Emery Shirts, cruise lines, Holstein milk, shaving products, and phones—typical of 1916 Life magazine.
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gi ba) bl eid hag From ultra to conservative patterns, Shirts give the correct expression of Good Style. $1.50, 82.00, 82.50 to 87.50 At Leading Dealers The Nek-ban-tab is an exclusive Emery convenience. W. M. Steppacher & Bro., Inc., Philadelphia RAYMOND-WHITCOMB CRUISES TO THE West Indies, Panama, the Central Ameri- can Wonderland and the Spanish Main Tropical Cruises de Luxe of twenty-four days’ duration sailing from New York Jan. 29, Feb. 12 and March 11, by the beautiful American sisterships “PASTORES and TENADORES” under the American Flag Remarkable and comprehensive tours to SOUTH AMERICA January 15th, February 2nd, Sth, 16th and 26th. 1916 Weekly Tours to California on the Highest Plane of Travel Send for Booklet desired RAYMOND & WHITCOMB COMPANY 17 Temple Place, Boston New York Chicago Philadelphia San Francisco From the Carver's Gazette O*E of the century’s most impor- tant contributions to medical science has just been made by Dr. Aufel Bungler. Owing to the great increase in the number of people who make their living by cutting up their fellow-creatures, the need has been felt for some time for a serum or other medicament which would reduce the resultant loss of life to the minimum. Dr. Bungler went to work on the problem, and after several years of unremittent labor in his laboratory success has crowned his efforts. His discovery consists of a serum which, when injected into patients either be- fore or after being operated upon, will render them immune from all mistakes of the surgeon. Dr. Bungler has not yet disclosed just how his serum is prepared, but its great advantage to all concerned is immediately apparent. Not only will it be a great boon to patients, who henceforth, when they enter the operat- ing room, will need to worry only about their pocketbooks, but it will also be a great help to surgeons, who are enabled thereby to relax their dili- gence. Many surgeons lose thousands of dollars every year simply because they have to be careful. To be careful consumes valuable time in which they might be making more money by operating on some one else. Then, too, surgeons have been much annoyed by damage suits in cases where their mistakes can not be concealed or the ame laid upon the abnormal unruli- ness of the patient’s constitution. Sur- geons, therefore, will thoroughly ap- preciate being able to jump nimbly from case to case with no thought of the consequences. Dr. Bungler’s new serum has already been tested on’a wide variety of cases with excellent results. In one case, where a surgeon left several wads of gauze, two pairs of scissors, a monocle, an overshoe and a gold watch in a wound, the patient was inoculated with Dr. Bungler’s serum and imme- diately began to convalesce as rapidly as could be expected. Ellis O. Jones. Unmasculine Tommy had a profound contempt for the little boy next door, who threw a ball like a girl, seldom had on any but a clean shirt, and who generally wore gloves. “Do you know why he’s a sissy?” asked Tommy of his aunt. “It’s ‘cause he looks just like his mother, and that shows he’s got girl blood in him.” —Harper's Magazine. Holstein Milk For Old and Young Purebred Holstein cows’ milk is best for old people and invalids, because their low vitality is reinforced and fortified’ by the great vitality of the large healthy, vigorous, black and white Holstein cow. Food chemists and physicians of highest repute agree that the si Holstein cow has the peculiar quality of imparting own vitality to the consumer of her milk, The perf character of the solids, not fat, in Holstein cows’ and the small relative size of the fat globules make it more easily digested than the milk of cows of ot breeds. Purebred Holstein milk is naturally light color Ask your milkman for Holstein cows’ milk. fails to provide, send us his name and we will try to secure a supply for you. Send for our new free illustrated booklet, “The Story of Holstein Milk.” HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA F, L. HOUGHTON, Secretary 18-B American Building BRATTLEBORO, VT. Avoid that “after shaving” irritation—use g . KNITTED Wash Cloths More grateful " One “bide tos} : Avk your dealer of send for 2—10¢ postpaid. PUTNAM KNITTING CO., Dept. H, Cohoes, N.Y. “DONT SHOUT” “I can hear you with the MORLEY PHONE." It is invisible, weight- comfortable, inexpensive. No one ‘wires not rubber, Canbe anyone, young oF old. The Morley Phone for the DEAF is to the care what glasses are to the eyes. Write Fer Free Booklet containing testimonials of users all over the country. It describes causes of deafness: tel how and | why the MORLEY PHONE affords rebef. Over a quarter of a milbon sold. THE MORLEY CO., Dept. 770, Perry Bldg., Phila. ROUND THE WORLD TOURS Pull Information from CUNARD LINE, 24 State St..N.Y- comicbooks.com [ 4 —_———o