DOCTORS DEVOTION TO SCIENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 4 February 1905, Page 13

DOCTORS DEVOTION TO SCIENCE.

* A REMARKABLE CASE. T6* most paiafni method of aerriaj •deaee on record is that of r>r. OfW> Mulierf, who died the ©tfcer day at tUe ol.i Turfcisli town of Bnda. Dr. Mulierf was a specialist in incurable diseases, and was go fanatically devoted to the medical art that whea a stndent of 20 he Inocniated himself with, the senna o* consumption, *«u*a Luckily, or unluckily, for iimsett, he survived this erde*L Bot his ardour for pathological stu<H«a increased. At the ase of 22 he married a beautifnl young girl to whom tie doctors bad given only six months of life. She U-red a year," and en her death the doctor published a monograph describing her symptoms, and explaining by what methods He had prolonged her life. Aβ be sainei some small fame by this work he reserved to repeat the experiment. Within a year of his first wife's death he married an apparently healthy PcCah sirl from Lemberg. The bride t» everyone seemed a picture of health, but MnlierTs keen eye had detected to her manner the Incipient stages of a dangerous nervous complaint Mm* Mcliert number two lived for four and a-half years. After her death appeared a second monograph—this time anonymous—which everyone ascribed to the doctor, who had j married solely for the purpose of studying ; disease at close <jnartersi. - - j A social scandal was the result, and the doctor was enable to find anyone in his m dass who would become the partner ot a tMrd medical marriage. He proposed ana was accepted by a bea-rteaen peasant girl, named Janes, whose complaint he was thus enabled to study. He made notes all the *tae-, hut did cot publish, the results of his observations. I —111I 11 of t V ne « two mo " ailing wives scientific hottseholt! 3 The j first died after liasering for live yea-s----thesecond survived her hnsban-i When Dr. MuUerTs will vn« beinswrelied for by his wMow a plto of loct In his desk. It was entitled "Obon tie Pathol *Slcar Condxtione V Moones MnMeri, *cc Janos, «• Sdnreitser, aoi oce. Yurgi*¥ttel. ™ -;