Ohio College of Dental Surgery - Alethian Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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What the Poor Man Told the Doctor MY DEAR DOCTOR; The term, Hdear in this case is not one of affeetiou but inspired by your bill of $72, which has just arrived. When I called you in three weeks ago you said that you would do me good. I thought you meant my health, not my pocketbook. You have itemized the statement, else I should be totally at sea as to what I am to pay for. You say thirty visits at $2 a visit, $60; for consultation with Dr. Cuttem, $10, and 111CdiCIrlCS;$2. Doei; it not strike you as a little unjust, doctor, to tax me $70 for talk and $2 for medicine? What I needed was medicine5 not talk. And'that consultation, for which I am asked to pay $10. You and Dr. Cuttem came together and thumped my chest 21nd felt my pulse ; Cuttem gravely pulled his; whisken and you seriously mopped the sweat from your bald head. uHets a sick man, said Cuttcm, and needs constant careft Then you two whispered together and departed. N ow before you were called in aind before Cuttem was called in I knew I was a very sick man. If I had been a well man I should not have sent for you But I must pay a ten spot for being told something that Lkuew before anyone else. We owe a great debt to medical science, I know, but there is no justice in trying to make me pay it. During the time that you made those $2 visits you smoked my cigars, ate the orange: that were placed at my bedside, put my Bowers in your button hole, carried away a box of 114 figs, and frequently Iunched on the delicacies that my fond and loving wife prepared for me. I made no objection to that, thinking, of course, that you would credit me with the price of the meals. Now you want me to pay you for eatiiig my food. The medicine for which you ask $2 consisted of a porous plaster and a bottle of linimeut. The porous plaster is stiltwith me, but the linimeut you took away with you on your last visit. I am expecting every day to have you come and tear the plaster from my back, It evidently costs money. to be sick. It is a luxury that only the rich can afford. A man has no chance of recovery nowadays, for he no sooner gets better than the doctor's bill gives him a relapse. I am goingrback to work tomorrow and the first $72 I get together in one lump is yours. I have worked for the last twenty-five years and the biggest sum I ever amassed in that length of time was $8. Your chances are rather slim, but as you frequently advised me: I'We must hope for the best and be prepared for the worst? I assure you that I was prepared for everything but the size of your bill. I see now Why you were so solicitous to have my wife and me ready for the worst. Yours deeply in debt, OWEN MOORE, It is hard to believe a man is telling the truth when you know you would he were you in his place.

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SkineA diaphoretic, Gaming :1 cold perspiration to appear when an effort is made to assimilate it. Special Senses-mEfforts to introduce it by the auditory apparatus are of no avail, as it is immediately excreted by the other ear. It is a mydriatic and an irritant t0 the optic nerves. Toxicology 1e Acute Poisoning-Large doses have caused the most alarming symptoms, blues, lassitude, general malice, nausea; non compus mentus, and collapse followed by stoppage of the clock. TreatmenteTreat on general principles. Do not use a stomach pump. Give stimulants such as Wilsonts or Hunter's mixtures, but never hypodermically, as it wontt do any good that way. Chronic Poisoningels altogether too common, due to the large and frequent doses given by professors of 111ateria medica. It does not, however, act as an accm-nulative poison, as it does not require any effort to excrete it, but by repeated attacks upon the system it causes a general de- rangement. u; SymptomsewEntiz-e change in moral perceptions; the 5tudent will swear: he and Cheat during recitations, neglect his duties and his temperature undergoes a compietc change. thtc how these terrible symptoms resemble those of chronic opium poisoningj Most of the SymptomS of acute poisoning are also present. Mast of the symp- toms are subjective as the student tries to hide the nbjectipe symptoms from the examiner. TreatmentePrevcntive treatment, but t'thaHs up to the prof. ! Unless the size of the lesson is cut down, all treat- ment is hopeless, and, in severe cases, imlation in sanitar riums may be necessary. Therapeuticsw I Used generally for hfcuts? As a hpynotic it has no equal. and its effect is more lasting and difficult to shake off. Acts as a tonic by a peculiar indirect action, causing a desire for more air, thusl stimulating oxygcnosis. Given to stimulate the. action of the nerve cetls 0f the cerebrum 0f studious students, but should not be given often nor in large doses, as it will destroy studious habits. In passing it might be well to state that solutions of 75 per cent or over KRAATZ, '07 are necessary-in CanlS.

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