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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1879)
The West Shoiie. OL. 5 No 1 u 8h,,i"'1. poumma SHORT ANECDOTE WITH A MORAL. We have a large number of people un Miuuni i v weui v v miru m, ,, ! i II il r e l ie cr't in . . . no give awayrr; live and ten dollar S () M' U" 111 I U'IC 'I , ,, ur.tU fill Itl 1 Tl'XT t1 HI.' " tli.it- buluudr on j irst arrant- wtwwn. I L" Nil (I Nit If Is IttU.l. t .tlll 1 ) .... . ...n iM ituuoi ovill niljill ill I ill's iiii'i'r i ii' ritrtu i i.. Hi,.,,..,-.,... bfiant violation of onr Sf.itn Iflwa uic erore iiinnsn nw in ..win,, L...U 1... I. A 1 i i l.lumtMIMV K V lltK (M'lflllk- li, 111,,- ' l, t l HI f . I I , . I, t . v .1 ,. .I.... I .....I, ... I 1.. mi . .111.11 lu llh UllllV. I 111 W.'lsn .-lllll M'l j i- flew away it gave the boy these "in ,u ttiMinni: -iNcver iry to neat a an at ins own game. To lie compelled to caution people J "J,"'"'" SllHtVIX lliii i' , m I . j MiuHfnui man . uufce km Mate who undertakes this nauseating J ...... I .. 1. . I.,,,, i. IV,,, HUH. tneir operations. It is a conceded fact that the adver- e than die from nil ntlift- itimim v. We should not object to sec the Orcgo- .1 t- .... w ii-: nr i:i i i ... i . 1 1 1 . 1 1 ,' . i ill ii I ii v 1 his hfliuli " Whan t hut inurn.il , i - - - connection with a nametnat ii itnowi not entitled ami entirely unworthy such title, it overt! apt the boundi of 1 1 1 1 s I I. II I III :i 1 1 vii I Supose you have a line watch it r... n....n.. : .1.. j j i ' - . I, tr ... i . .. .. ... .. I I ... -1 ...ii . I... i... n. i.l '.11 ,,.,.')...,,', i ,.iii n itt.U. I j r ' xisscsscd of good common ne, eithci Portland, Oregon, January, 187!). undertake to cure yourself by some simple remedy, on the advice of a friend who, in nine cases out of leu, unfortunately has not the faintest knowledge of the nature of your dis order, and no conception of the disas trous consequences of a mistake; or, worse still, you allow an advertising blacksmith to Undertake the repairs. A trial recently took place in which a German doctor appeared for the de fense in a case for damages brought against a client of his by the object of his assault. The eminent jurist, judge Black, soon recognised in his witness, who was produced as a medical expert, a laboring man who, some years before and in another part of the country, hail been engaged by him as a builder of post-aud-rail fences. With this cue he opened his cross-examination: " You say, doctor," he began, with great def erence and suavity, "that you operated upon Mr. 's head after it was cut by Mr. ?" "Oh yaw," replied the ex-fence builder; "me do that; yaw, yaw." " Was the wound a very severe one, doctor ?" " Enough to kill him if I had not saved his life." " Well, doc tor, what did you do for him?" " liv eryting." "Did you perforin a Ciesar ian operation?" " Oh, yaw, yaw; if me not do dat he die." Did you decap itate him?" 14 YtW yaw; me do dat, too." "Dili you hold a post mortem examination?" " Oh, too lie sure, Sehudgc; me always do dat." " Well, now, doctor" and here the Judge bent over in a friendly, familiar way "tell us whether you iubjectod yOUl patient to the process known among medical men as the Hst ami-rail fenci orum?" The mock doctor drew him self up indignantly. "Slurry I'lark," said he, " 1 always kiin.i'd you .isa tarn jayhawk lawyer, an now I know you tm a tani mean man." When you-arc nick and ia search of a physician, under Bo l onsider.ition en trust yourself to any man Who is not the owner of a diploma. The man who has a diploma from sonic great medical college, may not be a good physician; he who has not, cannot lc. A diploma does not certify the owner Tvt Annum. INItiiiln ruiilra two. I ii to be a man of brains; it merely proves that he has had the only possible op portunity to acquire his science I sci ence that can no more bt self-taught, Or aided by spirits, imx astronomy can be learned by the study of lamps uml brass door-knobs. You should, of course, know a diploma when you tee one, and the reputable medical college when you hear one mentioned. Next to our Maker wc adore the man who, although he has perhaps never even looked into a medical work, tells us what "a sure cure" for the jiugdoodles are Dr. Hilkcm' great pills, or that by allowing Dr. Hog to lay his dirty hands on us, he will positively cure us of the collywoodlcs. Those who take the pills or depend solely on Dr. 1 log's lists, are braver than we are, hut they won't live at long. Many a little grave tilled by a diphtheria vic tim might be vacant now, had the old woman's "yarns" lieeu fed to the hogs and a reputable physician called im mediately when it was discovered that something was ailing the baby. In ninety-nine cases out of every hundred the child is first poisoned by these jokers simply remedies and by thu time the doctor is called the baby is very nearly strangled to death, and what vitality the little body nsscseil has been previously forced from it y experimenting with this or that danger ous drug. The Argonaut says : " Educated and reputable physicians never adver tise except sometimes their names and addresses. This rule is inflexible) there are no exceptions. Moreover, physii Litis on graduating take an oath that any Valuable distilleries they may make they will Immediately impart to the profession . Oath or no oath, il is "in iif the iinwiiltcti laws of the pin feaaion, obtervod by every honorable practltiooer. It follows that the ad vertising doctor is a self-convit ti d mi MMtcr, and that il' he affirm his know ledge of superior methods and c( i Ii, unknown to the profession, he is either a ipiack or a renegailo." mi in. The p i win who slops his paicr be cause it contains opinions with which he is not in accord, is an us.