Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1913 — Professional Query. [ARTICLE]

Professional Query.

Among the papers of R. H. Stoddard that Ripley Hitchcock edited there is a letter which Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet-physician, is said to have received. This letter was written many years ago by an ignorant country practitioner, and it Is Interesting because it shows the low level to which in the early Vart of the last century, It was possible for medical education to fall. The letter, verbatim, follows: “Dear dock I have a ,pashunt whose physicol sines shoze that the winpipe Is ulcerated of and his lung hav dropped into hia stumich. He is unabel to swaller and I'Jfebr his stumick toobe is gone. I-hl*e 'fclv him everything without efeck his Father is wealthy bonble and inftuenshul. He is an active member of the M. E. church and God noes I don’t want too loose him wot shall I do?" /