CHAPTER VI When the time comes for me to leave this good world I shall (Part 3)

got together. They got fat and denned up near-by, and I had pretty good luck with them this spring." 'Did you have any trouble with any of them?" 'Well, no. Nothin' particular! There was one old she- bear got a whack at me and broke my leg, this 'ere outside shin bone — ^and laid me up for six weeks." "Wasn't that interesting?" "Well, no, not in particular. I was about done with all the work and not much to do but to lay around anyhow. Joe the Injun looked after me." "Did you have any other close calls with a bear that got mad ?" "Well, no! Let's see! There was one that wam't mad; "] TO-MORROW'S TOPICS 361 he was only fearless hungry when he come out in the spring. I was asleep in the cabin with bacon and things hangin' near me. He smelled the bacon and come into the cabin. When I woke up he was standin' on my legs reachin' for the bacon." 'What did you do?" 'Well, I reached round kind o' keerful and got hold of my rifle. I couldn't see very well in the dark, but fired a shot that I thought would come pretty cluss to hittin' him in the right spot." "Weren't you afraid that he would grab you if he was wounded?" "Well, perhaps! But I knew he would git off my legs anyhow and I could git out quick through the place he came in at." Now all this was uninteresting to the man who was accus- tomed to the routine hardships and experiences of woods life, and he would not have thought of speaking about any of it had I not drawn him out. It is difficult then, to know just what in one's own experience is really interesting to others. INDEX 'A Abuse of surgery, 58 "Accident," 342 Accidents, 96 Adaptation to requirements, 239 Adventitious abdominal tissues, 261 Advertising, 28 Advice, 3 Amateurs in surgery, 68 American G>llege of Surgeons, 149 Appendicitis, 251 Artificial synovial fluid, 301 Ascent and descent, 44 Aseptic clot, the, 297 Attacking innovators, 307 Authorities, 30 B Blocking nerve impulse, 275 Bulgarian bacillus, 131 Calmness, 39 Case days are coming, 76 Causing alarm, 83 Changes in our profession. 52 Charity work, 124 Chiropractors, 203 Choice of operations, 126 Choice of patients, 126 Choosing a doctor, 172 Christian Science, 187 Code of ethics, 45 Commercialism, 50 Comparative dangers, 89 Consultants, 162 Correct diagnosis (Cabot), 91 Cotmty Medical Societies, 13 Crile, 275 Criticism, 7 Cults, 131 D Dentistry, 167 Diagnosis the chief goal, 214 Diagnostician and family doctor, 160 Diplomacy, 88 Dispensary work, 73 Doctors and the lay press, 226 Doctors' disagreements, 12 Doing surgery "pretty wcH," 62 Dyspepsia, 316 Eakly lessons, 238 Emmanuel Movement, the, 211 Endowments, 19 Enteric toxins, 310 Experts in court, 168 Eye strain, 165 Eyes of a young man, 4 363 364 INDEX Factoes in success, 43 Fees, 106 Fee splitting, 53. 48, I35 Fletcherism, 209 Fourth era in surgery, 263 Friedmann, 132 Gastric ulcer, 288 General practitioner, the, 170 General practitioners, 76 Germicides versus antiseptics, 263 "Golden Rule is childish," 149 Gorgas, 338 Great new movements and fads, 197 Guinea hen, the, 40 Gynecology, 155 H Harmful germicides, 272 Healers, 206 Hobequs, the, 243 House staff, remuneration for, 148 Hypnotism, 81 / Ideal professional life, 344 Income, 41 Incorrect diagnoses, 320 Investments, 180 Jewish patients, 127 K Kinds of surgeons, 59 Lack of co-ordination, 154 Lack of incentive, 23 Lane, 261 Lawyers' incomes, 44 Lay press and medical questioiis, 231 Legislators and doctors, 191 Local conflicts, 8 Location for practice, 34 Loose Iddncy, 317 M Mayos, the, 77 Medical education, 68 Medical journals, 16 Medical sectarians, 189 Medical speakers, 240 Medicine to-morrow, 313 Miracles, 230 Mishaps, 67 Mistakes, 92 Modesty, 28 More work for us, 75 "Moving bones," 199 Municipal sanitation, 237 My first book, 244 My first three patients, 98 N Neurasthenia, 328 Neurologists, 156 Never complain nor explain, 6 New Medicine, 64 Nobility group, 48 Nut tree experiments, 348 O Oculists, 164 One specialist, 60 Opium in peritonitis, 277 Opportunities missed, 17 Opposition to novelty, 308 Osier, 306 Osteopaths, 193 INDEX 36s Outside income, 174 Ovarian transplantation, 295 Oysters, 341 Patent medicines, 214 Patient versus case, T7 Personal offence, 5 Personal troubles, 5 Pests of specialists, 163 Physicians and clergymen, 260 Pinning fractures, 299 Popular diagnoses, 234 Practice versus science, 85 Precious things, 45 Prize committees, 242 Profession versus business, 41 Profit and loss account, 247 Property more valuable than life, 235 Proprietary articles, 220 Psychology, 79 Queen Charlotte and Jenner, 129 R Recognition, 38 Regulars and faddists, 185 Reputation, Z7 Renal tuberculosis, 301 Rest cure, 213 Retrospection, 3 Run with the pack, 30 Second era of surgery, 278 Self prescribing, 221 Small hospitals, 57 Social Qubs, 248 Social position, 46 Society meetings, 13 Some experiences, 103 Specialists, 155 Structural weaknesses, 328 Surgical judgment, 85 Surprising experiences, 21 Surprising facts, 20 S3mdicate press letters, 224 Teaching temperament, the, 20 Technical wrath, 9 Third era in surgery, 263 Three precedents, 346 Three social powers, 38 Trimming down to a specialist, 65 Triumph of surgery, the, 128 Trying a case over again, 63 VACaNATION, 71 Vegetarianism, 209 Virchow, 321 W Waste in human life, 335 Wasted work, 184 Women in medicine, 73 Salvage, 121 Scissors, 304 Youbself a teacher, 4 THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS GARDEN CITY, N. Y. h A <.»'"" >^ H117 Morris, R.T. 87055 M87 Doctors versus folics, V.3 ^To-morrow' s topics iai 5 ---saE l. '