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THE

AMERICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL

OF ST. LOUIS, MO.

OSTON

MEDICAL

MAR 24 1888

LIBRARY ASS'N

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY

E. YOUNKIN, M. D.,

PROFESSOR OF SURGERY IN THE AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGE, ST. LOUIS, MO.

VOL. XV., 1887.

ST. LOUIS, MO.:

Commercial Printing Company, 200 and 202 South Fourth Street. Cor. Elm,

1887.

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CATALOGUED,

E. H. B.

3/24/88

904.

MAR24 1838

ORARY ASO'N

THE

AMERICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL.

VOL. XV.

JANUARY, 1887.

No. 1.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

The Medical Journal.-By A. J. Howe, M. D.

The average physician is wretchedly economical, if not meanly stingy. He embraces the shortest road to a medical degree, and then sets up practice in the cheapest possible manner. He has a few text-books, yet only as many as would carry him through the student's career. He has a cheap dissecting case of surgical instruments, which originally consisted of a pair of forceps and two scalpels; one of the latter is kept clean for surgical operations of a minor character. With this limited capital the young doctor commences a professional business, and feels neglected if patrons do not flock to him! If a merchant should begin trade with such a slender stock, he would ignominiously fail; no trick would save him, as it sometimes does a scaly follower of Esculapius.

Well, the young M. D. subscribes for a medical journal, and continues to take it as long as the editor will mail it for nothing. A dun now and then will not provoke a threat to withdraw the subscription. After the publication is at length stopped, the insulted and irate doctor transfers his patronage (?) to another medical periodical, and rejoices in the change. The publisher is regarded as a liberal gentleman, who is probably worth enough to manufacture and send out a journal for "the good of the cause," or through some other philanthropic motive. Finally, the second and third subscription come to an end, and the wrathy and neglected prac

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