The Carolina Medical Journal Volume 41 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 4. That Warburg's Tincture in the last condition has an action not yet understood, on the toxine (or eliminative system) by which the system is put in condition to benefit by quinine. 5. That quinine should never be used in haemoglobinuria, or given subsequently, to one who has suffered from it, being liable to-bring about a recurrence of the condition. 6. Only those living in regions of severe malarias can become competent to settle these questions pro or con. IN THE MATTER OF DOCTORS AND PANTS. By Thos. M. Riddick, M.D., Woodville, N. C. "Lives of doctors all remind us, Honest work don't stand no chance; The more we work there grow behind us, Bigger patches on our papts; On our pants once new and glossy, Now of stripes of varied hue. All because the patients linger, And wont pay up what is due. Then let us all be up and doing, Bring your cash, however small, Or when snows of winter strike us, We shall have no pants at all." ?Paraphrased from McBeechy. WHAT a sad lugubrious suggestion is contained in those touching pathetic lines. The very thoughtof it appalls us. It causes chills of nervous origin to make competitive foot races up and down our spinal ridge. It suggests to us the primitive costume of a gentlemen who is about to go in swimming, while dark and angry looking clouds are dropping their fleecy whiteness down. How any Christian soul, living in the light of latter-day civilization, can with equanimity contemplate a patient, self-sacrificing doctor without pants, must be alike revolting and incomprehensible to every humanitarian heart. Quis est homo qui non fleret, Bonum doctorerr. si videret, In tauto supplicio. Yet, looking the cold hard facts straight in the face, and discarding every trace of maudlin sentiment, such a catastrophe s...