[DOCTORS-OLD STYLE AND NEW.]
"The old-fashioned gentleman, who first of all
pulled out a watch as big as a warming-pan."
The owning of a hospital is not a very lively proceeding, but I cannot help giving a few of my reminiscences in connection with doctors. I can go back to the real old-style of doctor; not the present-day smart young gentleman with the radium light in his pocket, but the old-fashioned gentleman who first of all pulled out a watch as big as a warming-pan, and who felt the pulse and asked the patient to put out his tongue, and ended up by saying "Haw!" That meant a tremendous lot, for he did not tell any more.
I well remember a medical friend of mine saying once that he lived in a land flowing with rhubarb, magnesia, and black draughts. That was the way we were treated as children, and which possibly enabled us to live a long life.
Opening of a Hospital at Abertysswg,
October 3rd, 1910.
[ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS.]
I am one of those who like mixing with all sorts and conditions of men. I can dine with lords and ladies whenever I like, but I cannot always dine with an assembly of working men.