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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 47, 7 June 1879, Page 2

pHiIiAKXitBQPY.— If we may. qorreetljform an estimate from the fo^pwing- ex-, tract from the . = Dlustrdied Zond#jt Newt^ if would appear that the French/ pgasantry have a similar idea o E 'the^^ duties of a, French, physician as a certain class of subscribers ia 4 New Zealand entertain of the functions of a' newspaper proprietor. We would ask: some of those people tb ; chew the cad of r^lection, "over /what follows^ It would be infereat* ing to hear- tlieiK opinions oh -the subject :. v —"The fees which French physi'o^ns receive would seem tq their English brethren ■yery low. I gath'eri from a .- >: recent coniroversy m. .the.'jaapers \ that* ?pme "ieading Londpn pvactitioners iatelysrai»ed thi^ir feee". {air a. first consultation to two guineas. In. Paris the best ; physician expects twentj. frahds for- a' consultation at home, and-foj-ty ' francs if they go out s but a rather, fexag-^ gerat^d eentiment of professional delieaej preyents thorn, as a rule, from demandingmore thau a patient chooses to give.. The. table of a busy docter is littered bVer : with, gold pieces, bo grouped aa to convey the. hint thftt fees of one, two or three. ?Tapor. I laanahave. been received j but if a'p^tienfc lays dp.vyn. t«a\ franca,.or even {five, n^e receives his bo\y and thanks without a protest, thadoptor, assuming (often wrongly)^, that' • the man has given all he can afford. In, '■ country to,vrni -five francs is the usual[ fee, but two francs a,re often given by men,, who /' buirht to. know, better, an.d two francs itihe. invariable fee which village t 'dpctoratvjmfe. v down per vis.it T^hen •en.dino;" m their. WU« "at the end of the jenr. • Oaie is ashajped to say these, doctors'' bula V of ten ..giro. , riße to the sorriest haggling, for '^huere. exi3ta a crooked, opinion, among .the French, .peasantry and working classes that a ph^aici^n should regard himself as, aphilant hropfet,'"?ahd:pa^y the ; butchjers'- bSls' with tJ>« mere 'thank 9 ojf his patienia.. A country doctor attends a peasant proprietor, djiy affer day for. wepka, auppKea medirine/, effectaa enre, and at the encfcojE the ye»r m treated as an extortioner because he hj|s charged a sum that will barely ppj for. t^e wear andtear of hishbraa and gig; ' Sbwjp draw a regular salary ;from a medical cluji but these arei the .w.o.rsti wseoV -of all; .^ . every mem bar. of the .club ffiela.; bound*.'to« tftke^aut five, pr.wx. _ tim.es- the value of Ji^ subsciiiptton m ;dbctp% Tisita, ewin tthjf ir -