A doctor's table talk / by James Gregory Mumford.

  • James Gregory Mumford
Date:
1912
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Credit: A doctor's table talk / by James Gregory Mumford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pected cannot come. Here we are, four women. You will have to take us all out to luncheon.’ ‘Madam,’ said the ready Autocrat, ‘it shall be my pleasure. Forewarned is four-armed!’” I looked at my visitor in some doubt. “Jona- than Primrose,” I said, “this does not sound like you. Lie down there, please, until dinner-time. We will have a short and quiet evening.” Ely joined us, of course. It was many weeks since we three had come together. The talk drifted until we fell upon the time-honored subject, — what leads a man to choose his profession. “Indeed,” said Ely, “it is hard to see what else than family tradition could induce a young fellow to study medicine. Such ones as Warren and Shattuck, Mitchell and Gross must turn to medi- cine, for their fathers have been doctors for gener- ations. My own people have been doctors for five generations; and I’m sure it was an advantage to me to grow up in a medical atmosphere; to know the difficulties of a doctor’s life, and to understand dimly the nature of scientific thought. But what turned you towards medicine, Primrose.^ Your people were not doctors.” “No, they were always lawyers. The first thought
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