. Stories of a country doctor . all get into ruts and need prying out. Every manwho practices the healing art owes it to himself, andmore especially to those who give him charge of their Going Back to College. 377 sick bodies, to keep abreast of the times in his much honor can not be paid to the noble menin our large cities for their work in lecturing and writ-ing and keeping the smaller fry ^ in the professionfrom going into the dry rot. It may be argued thatthey do what they do from selfish considerations. Thismay be true of some but I am sure that it is not true ofall
. Stories of a country doctor . all get into ruts and need prying out. Every manwho practices the healing art owes it to himself, andmore especially to those who give him charge of their Going Back to College. 377 sick bodies, to keep abreast of the times in his much honor can not be paid to the noble menin our large cities for their work in lecturing and writ-ing and keeping the smaller fry ^ in the professionfrom going into the dry rot. It may be argued thatthey do what they do from selfish considerations. Thismay be true of some but I am sure that it is not true ofall. But, whatever the motive may be, the work is doneand we poor fellows in the backwoods reap the benefit ofit—if we will—and, in the end, our patients also get thebenefit. CHAPTER XX. QUACKS AND QUACKERY. THE TRUE PHYSICIAN—THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF QUACKS—THE GENTLEMANLY QUACK—THE SMART PRETENDER—THEPROFESSIONAL BUZZARD OR jIM CROW DOCTOR—ABDOMINALDIGITALIS AND AORTIC REGURGITATION—DOCTOR CONNECKTIEAND DR. N order to present the quack in histrue light, let us first see what man-ner of man the true physician is, sothat, by the outlines of his symmet-rical character, the former may bemade to stand out in all his ugly de-fer mi t}. The true physician is a man ofgood moral character. His conductis such that, with those who knowhim best, there is no doubt about acts are the acts of a noble, trueand unselfish man, who means to doright not only by himself, but by all with whom hecomes in contact. He is a man of knowledge and is nottent with what he already knows, but is constantlyand persistently trying to know more. He takes andreads the best literature of his profession, and would atany time stint his stomach or cheat his back of a newcoat in order to buy a new book, written by one of the Quacks and Quackery. 379 masters in the profession. He tries to familiarize him-self with every form of disease, and to arm himself withthe best weapons with which to
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