It's a very good rule in all things of life,
When judging a friend or brother,
Not to look at the question alone on one side,
But always to turn to the other.
We are apt to be selfish in all our views,
In the jostling, headlong race,
And so, to be right, ere you censure a man,
Just "put yourself in his place."--ANON.
PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE.--STEALING FROM THE PROFESSION.--ANECDOTE OF
RUFUS CHOATE.--INGRATES.--A NIGHT ROW.--"SAVING AT THE SPIGOT AND
WASTING AT THE BUNG."--SHOPPING PATIENTS.--AN AFFECTIONATE WIFE.--RUM
AND TOBACCO PATIENTS.--THE PHYSICIAN'S WIDOW AND ORPHANS, THE SUMMONS,
THE TENEMENT, THE INVALIDS, HOW THEY LIVED, HER HISTORY, THE UNNATURAL
FATHER, HOW THEY DIED, THE END.--A PETER-FUNK DOCTOR.--SELLING OUT.
While I trust that respectable, educated physicians will take no offence
at the _exposé_ in the foregoing chapters, as nothing therein is
_intended_ to lessen them in public opinion, or detract from the merit of
the TRUE PHYSICIAN of any school, I cannot leave the subject without
presenting some facts to show that the people are not blameless in
creating and maintaining so many humbugs and impositions, to the damage
and scandal of respectable practitioners and legitimate medicine.