Drexel University College of Medicine - Medic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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HERE are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor, the shepherd, not infrequentlyg the art- ist rarelyg rarelier still, the clergy- mang the physician almost as a rule. He is the Hower Csuch as it isb of our civilizationg and when that stage of man is done with, and only re- membered to be marveled at in his- tory, he will be thought to have shared as little as any in the virtues of the race. Generosity he has, such as is pos- sible to those who practice an art, never to those who drive a tradeg discretion, tested by a hundred se- cretsg tact, tried in a thousand em- barrassments, and what are more important, Herculean cheerfulness and courage. So it is that he brings aid and cheer into the sickroom, and often enough, though not so often as he wishes, brings healing. By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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T VVAS during the reign of Queen Victoria that a simple for- ester's cottage near Balmoral Castle, North Scotland, became the setting for a human drama that will live forever in this painting, The Doc- tor. fl A favorite servant of the Queen lived in this cottage with her husband and their only child. Upon hearing that the child was seriously ill, the Queen wired to London for her personal physician, Sir James Clark. Sir james came by special train and remained in constant at- tendance upon the child until the crisis was past. The child recovered. H In 1891, Queen Victoria com- manded Sir Luke Fildes to place the scene on canvas in commemoration of the faithful devotion of the physi- cian. The Doctor -D'Apres Sir Luke Fildes, R.A.- Joseph Tomanek.