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407 THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL). 302 use far exceeds any possible benefits which may be derived from it. These remarks are not intended as a justification of all the teaching upon the subject of alcohol which has up to the present time been advocated or employed by the agents of temperance education in the schools. We wish merely to point out that, in regard to the teaching upon this particular question, as to whether or not alcohol is a food, their position has not yet been successfully controverted by scientific evidence. Whether the present teaching upon this point is the widest under present conditions of knowledge is another question. It is our personal opinion that the wisest course at present would be to base the prohibition of alcohol advocated in the teaching upon the fact that alcohol is an undesirable substance, the use of which in any capacity in health is quite unjustifiable under the laws of hygiene, rather than upon the statement that it is not a food or the unqualified statement that it is a poison. For while the latter statements in unqualified form have, at the present time, the preponderance of .scientific evidence in their favor, still our knowledge in this regard is not complete. The former statement, however, is based upon facts and arguments so established that it may be regarded as true beyond the shadow of a doubt. The Ideal Physician. According to the Denver Medical Times the ideal physician is a lover of humanity and a benefactor of his race—not in any mawkish or sentimental sense, but in an enlightened appreciation of the needs of humanity and the resources of science. The ideal physician is an enthusiast in regard to his profession. Science is, indeed, his mistress; and to relieve pain, to cure disease or to assist nature in any imperfect action, or arrested development, gives him as keen a delight as the artist finds in completing a beautiful picture, or the sculptor finds in carving a noble statue. The ideal physician has positively no personal vanity. The foolish smiles of motiveless women suggest to him nothing more sentimental than the play of certain facial muscles. The blandishments of the artful intriguante are to him a mere waste of time, if not suggestive of grave physical disorders that medicine cannot always reach. Being devoted to his profession, the ideal physician is superior to false pretenses or hollow make-beliefs. He does not clothe himself with mystery as with a garment and refuse to give any hint concerning the nature of his remidies; he has no fear that his entire stock in tadecan be stolen in a single prescription. He is as frank and honest in dealing with his patients as good business men are in giving the right change when a purchase is made. In complicated nervous disorders, requioing time, patience, good nursing, proper feeding, abundant resting and mental diversion, more than medicine, the ideal physician states the case frankly to those having the patient in charge; he does not assume the office of nurse, nor contract a bill for bread-pills when no medicine is required; he has enough to do that is necessary and remunerative without making a pretense of doing that which is not required, for a financial consideration. His manner is grave, sympathetic, frank; yet, withal, full of dignified reserve. What he says has weight, because he does not speak unnecessarily or irrelevantly. He has no time to waste with mere whims—no leisure for trifling with feminine affections or frivolous coquetries; yet a case of real distress never fails to awaken his sympathies and elicit his assistance. Hence it is that when he enters a sick room, or confronts a patient, he inspires confidence, and this restful mental attitude on the part of the patient gives a sense of relief even before any medicine is taken. A pure and lofty nature brings healing even with its presence, and the ideal physician holds as sacred and potent an influence in the hearts of his patients as that accorded to priest or prophet. Women no less than men frequently experiment with their fellow creatures from a morbid curiosity to find out how much strength or weakness belongs to the character they seek to explore, yet even these poor skeptics of human goodness are forced to honor the man or woman whose uncompromising rectitude rebukes their foolish search for that which is unworthy. No man has it in his power to do more good in the world than the sympathetic, skillful and conscientious physician. He is admitted to the inner sanctuary of domestic life; he can heal or widen the breach between husband and wife that disordered nerves, financial trouble, or mental obliquity may often induce even among those who have the best intentions. He knows that when a woman's nerves have reached a certain tension her husband is a "fiend incarnate." He knows that when a man's immoralities have exhausted his life-forces, clouded his brain, and hardened his heart, this man's wife becomes of all women most unattractive, and the neglect or abuse which she must endure reduces her to a physical condition which the physician is expected to remedy with medicine. He must hear
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-21: Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Document Title | Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Absorbed Carolina medical journal in 1908 and continued its vol. numbering with v. 58. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Mar. 1894) misnumbered as v. 4, no. 5. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Blakey Print. House, 1892-1921. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1900 |
Identifier | NCHH-21-016 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
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Fixed Title * | Page 407 |
Document Title | Charlotte Medical Journal [1892-1921] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Absorbed Carolina medical journal in 1908 and continued its vol. numbering with v. 58. Vol. 4, no. 3 (Mar. 1894) misnumbered as v. 4, no. 5. |
Publisher | Charlotte, N.C. : Blakey Print. House, 1892-1921. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1900 |
Identifier | NCHH-21-016-0417 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; editorial |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 16 |
Issue Number | 4 |
Page Number | 407 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 407 THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL). 302 use far exceeds any possible benefits which may be derived from it. These remarks are not intended as a justification of all the teaching upon the subject of alcohol which has up to the present time been advocated or employed by the agents of temperance education in the schools. We wish merely to point out that, in regard to the teaching upon this particular question, as to whether or not alcohol is a food, their position has not yet been successfully controverted by scientific evidence. Whether the present teaching upon this point is the widest under present conditions of knowledge is another question. It is our personal opinion that the wisest course at present would be to base the prohibition of alcohol advocated in the teaching upon the fact that alcohol is an undesirable substance, the use of which in any capacity in health is quite unjustifiable under the laws of hygiene, rather than upon the statement that it is not a food or the unqualified statement that it is a poison. For while the latter statements in unqualified form have, at the present time, the preponderance of .scientific evidence in their favor, still our knowledge in this regard is not complete. The former statement, however, is based upon facts and arguments so established that it may be regarded as true beyond the shadow of a doubt. The Ideal Physician. According to the Denver Medical Times the ideal physician is a lover of humanity and a benefactor of his race—not in any mawkish or sentimental sense, but in an enlightened appreciation of the needs of humanity and the resources of science. The ideal physician is an enthusiast in regard to his profession. Science is, indeed, his mistress; and to relieve pain, to cure disease or to assist nature in any imperfect action, or arrested development, gives him as keen a delight as the artist finds in completing a beautiful picture, or the sculptor finds in carving a noble statue. The ideal physician has positively no personal vanity. The foolish smiles of motiveless women suggest to him nothing more sentimental than the play of certain facial muscles. The blandishments of the artful intriguante are to him a mere waste of time, if not suggestive of grave physical disorders that medicine cannot always reach. Being devoted to his profession, the ideal physician is superior to false pretenses or hollow make-beliefs. He does not clothe himself with mystery as with a garment and refuse to give any hint concerning the nature of his remidies; he has no fear that his entire stock in tadecan be stolen in a single prescription. He is as frank and honest in dealing with his patients as good business men are in giving the right change when a purchase is made. In complicated nervous disorders, requioing time, patience, good nursing, proper feeding, abundant resting and mental diversion, more than medicine, the ideal physician states the case frankly to those having the patient in charge; he does not assume the office of nurse, nor contract a bill for bread-pills when no medicine is required; he has enough to do that is necessary and remunerative without making a pretense of doing that which is not required, for a financial consideration. His manner is grave, sympathetic, frank; yet, withal, full of dignified reserve. What he says has weight, because he does not speak unnecessarily or irrelevantly. He has no time to waste with mere whims—no leisure for trifling with feminine affections or frivolous coquetries; yet a case of real distress never fails to awaken his sympathies and elicit his assistance. Hence it is that when he enters a sick room, or confronts a patient, he inspires confidence, and this restful mental attitude on the part of the patient gives a sense of relief even before any medicine is taken. A pure and lofty nature brings healing even with its presence, and the ideal physician holds as sacred and potent an influence in the hearts of his patients as that accorded to priest or prophet. Women no less than men frequently experiment with their fellow creatures from a morbid curiosity to find out how much strength or weakness belongs to the character they seek to explore, yet even these poor skeptics of human goodness are forced to honor the man or woman whose uncompromising rectitude rebukes their foolish search for that which is unworthy. No man has it in his power to do more good in the world than the sympathetic, skillful and conscientious physician. He is admitted to the inner sanctuary of domestic life; he can heal or widen the breach between husband and wife that disordered nerves, financial trouble, or mental obliquity may often induce even among those who have the best intentions. He knows that when a woman's nerves have reached a certain tension her husband is a "fiend incarnate." He knows that when a man's immoralities have exhausted his life-forces, clouded his brain, and hardened his heart, this man's wife becomes of all women most unattractive, and the neglect or abuse which she must endure reduces her to a physical condition which the physician is expected to remedy with medicine. He must hear |
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