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DOCTORS VERSUS LAW. BY WM. ARCH. McCLEAN.

THE position of a physician in a com afraid not to follow some such method else munity is peculiar. He is alternately you would be a long time sick and you are blessed and damned, according to the ills he afraid if you do as you must that something cures or does not cure. Sins are laid at his will happen to you anyhow. door, to be hurriedly cleared away when he is After watching the physician generation needed in haste. At one time he becomes an after generation passing up and down the absolute and indispensable necessity, at an community, coming and going at all hours other his very presence sends the pulse gal of the day and night, in times of plagues, loping, the tongue looks squeamish and the and times that are plagueless, measuring inwards revolt, remembering past experi doses by pillet, pill and spoonful, one is tan ences. He is a type of fate, holding one over talized with the reflection of the miraculous an abyss again and again to remind mortal escape of the physician from taking his own of the time when he cannot hold him longer medicine. This is followed by another re and will have to drop him into the bottom flection, whether if you had been in the same less pit of to-morrow. In fact the physician boat with him you would not have been pursues the unwelcome guest who is never better off. This, however, in turn you dis bidden to the home and often shares with it miss with the admission that the healer was a jolly good fellow anyhow, and that his the unwelcomeness. The community is often an ungrateful social and spiritual doses were well worth thing toward the healer. It may not want to the price of the bitter stuff he sent down into cultivate his acquaintance, or give room or the inwards. There may be times, it is true, support. It would rather enjoy such health that you wish you could prescribe for him. that all healers would be starved and frozen This feeling in time passes away, for you out of its borders. It is not, however, master have an ache and you have to have him of the situation. Poor flesh, heir to frailties, again, or think you have to, which is the goes blundering along, you are ill, your same thing. The physician seems to have his own neighbor's uncle's aunt is down with the peculiar way of looking at life, in a kind grippe, your wife's sister's child has the of a disinterested way. He sees so much measles, your friend of the adipose tissue is of it that he is surfeited, it is to him a flame nursing the gout. They are in need of a candle that burns a little while and then of a physician. The question of their is snuffed out, sometimes almost before it has wants is not debatable. They must have begun to burn, or when half burnt or when them if they are to live, they must have them it has sunk deep down in the socket. To him if they must die. There is but one thing to it has simply gone out, that is all there is do, send for an allopath, homoeopath, old about it. He goes off unconcernedly to the school, new school, Christian science, or faith healer, according to the prejudices of next accouchement as though life was some those to be administered unto. If they are thing of a joke. For all we may know he not in their offices, call in the quack, the may be right in so considering it. The pity hoodoo, the pow-wow, or any old kind of is that more of us cannot look at it in that a medicine man or woman. Having so done way. The physician may enjoy certain dis swallow the prescribed doses, actually or mentally, in the attempt to get well. You are tinctions, provided he has the capacity. If