. Stories of a country doctor . a thingso ridiculous. The only thing to do to rid the race ofsuch superstitions is to educate their children. CHAPTER VIII. PREACHER DOCTORS, MIDWIVES ANDNURSES. REASONS WHY THE PROFESSION DO NOT LIKE PREACHERDOCTORS—THE NURSE AND THE NUSS—STORIES ABOUTNUSSES. HERE is an abiding preju-dice among ■ medical menagainst preachers practic-ing medicine, and againstmidwives and certain self-styled nurses. This, as arule, is well founded andthere are good reasons inthe minds of those enter-taining such prejudice-rea-sons that are born of exper-iences in their lines as p
. Stories of a country doctor . a thingso ridiculous. The only thing to do to rid the race ofsuch superstitions is to educate their children. CHAPTER VIII. PREACHER DOCTORS, MIDWIVES ANDNURSES. REASONS WHY THE PROFESSION DO NOT LIKE PREACHERDOCTORS—THE NURSE AND THE NUSS—STORIES ABOUTNUSSES. HERE is an abiding preju-dice among ■ medical menagainst preachers practic-ing medicine, and againstmidwives and certain self-styled nurses. This, as arule, is well founded andthere are good reasons inthe minds of those enter-taining such prejudice-rea-sons that are born of exper-iences in their lines as prac-titioners of the healing is a fact that, in the western country, and in themore sparsely settled districts, especially, there an;many men following both the professions of medicine andthe ministry. They either started out in life as preachers and thenstudied medicine, or pretended to, or began as practi-tioners of medicine and then tacked on to that the voca-tion of a minister. The prejudice against them arises. Preacher Doctors, Midwives and Nurses. 143 mainly from the fact that every well informed physicianknows that no man can follow both professions and dojustice to either. He will be either a very poor preach-er or a very poor ph3sician, or both—probably profession, well followed and well filled, is suffi-cient to tax the intellect and the energy of the best manto the utmost. It is then a sort of presumption, in the outset, forany man to assume to fill two places which, under theordinary rule, only one man is expected to fill. Hearrogates to himself a degree of ability and a power ofintellect which we .know that no one man , therefore, puts himself in the position of a pretenderand no good man likes or approves of a pretender. In the second place such a person is almost sure toattach more importance to a little prayer, added to hismedication, than he does to his medication. Whetherthis be sincere or pretense, to the ordinary physi
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