Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 3, 19 May 1863, Page 3

A Hospital Physician's Aftehnoox. — The staff of the great hospitals is vitterl}' insufficient to allow of their performing themselves the work allotted to them. . . We discover every now and then a conscientious physician who tries to do his work. We once calculated this work up in a particular instance. At half-past six in the evening the Esculapian bee was putting on his overcoat to return home ; he had taken his seat in a wooden-bottomed chair at 1 p.m. For five and a-half hours lie sat there, ringing his bell, calling out "Come in," examhin.e his patients, and writing prescriptions, without a break. In the course of that peri.nl he had counted 4,480 strokes, of tlie heart, listened to 86 chests, looked at 190 tongues, asked I,l^o questions, written 336 separace recipes, '1 1 certificates for clubs, 3 certificate? of deaths, aud brief notes in the hospital books of 29 new patients, giving their age, sex, occupation, duration of illness, residence, and disease. Altogether he had given his advice gratis to 224 people, and remarked that he fell short of his usual number. Shall we describe the man at the end of his day's work? He was so pale that he might have played Ghost to Hamlet in broad sunlight. He was a little deaf on one side from the frequent use of the stethoscope ; one of his fingers was sore from percussing ; his eyes were wearied ; his back ached intensely ; his head was heavy, and his voice was hoarse and tremulous. He had a misgiving that at the close of his work lie had written a prescription for one patient on another patient's letter, and was dreadfully put out to find that, right or wrong, the patients had gone off with their medicines. As he passed out of the hospital nine persons whom he had never seen in his life waited to ask him privately his solemn opinion as to cas.'s some of which had not been before him for weeks, and of which lie had no more recollection than of Adam. His face of whi 3 despair conveyed to the anxious listeners meanings of which he had not the remotest conception. When ho got away from them all there -were still three long miles yawning between him and his dinner. Social Science Rccieio.

raantetk VT7 ANTED a female servant. Apply V V office of Invercargill Times ANTED a Female Servant. Apply to Mrs. William Aylmer, Esk-street. WANTED immediately, at the Criterion Hotel, 'J'ay-strept, any quantity of Fresh Eggs and Poultry. Jt. G. Hoskins, Proprietor. 117" AN TED immediately Sawyers, for *» the nfiehborhoofl of the town. Apply to Johnston and Dalglish, Esk -street. WANTED, a Section of Land within the T«.wn T>e)t. Apply io Thoma* "Drunton and Co., next Southland News office, Dee street. WANTED, a Smart Active Lad, as Apprentice to the Printing Business. Liberal TVa^es. Apply Fitzgerald & Co., Kelvinstreet. WA.NTED Bank of New Zealand Shares Macdonald and .Russell, Solicitors, Clyde - treet. W" ANTED Agextn for The Livercarr/lli Times in the Provinces of Marlborougn, Nelson, Wellington, and Auckland. W' ANTED tiny cmantity of Fresh Esrsrs and Butter at the Alhambra Cafe, Kelvin-street. The highest market price given. WANTED, a few men as Boarders, in a pri vate family. Apply middle house, Clerke's Buildings, Clerke-street. WANTED, a Waiter. Apply Alhambra Cafe. "TIT ANTED ft situation ns Ploughman or General VY Farm Servant. Good references. Address Ploughman, office of this paper. WANTED fenders for the erection of a Shop nnd House. For specifications, &c, apply at the Jetty Store up to "Wednesday nest. WANTED Cook and Cook's Mate. None but first-class hands need apply. Alhambra Cafe, Kelvin-street. WANTED a Female Servant for general household work. Apply to Mrs. Hallenstein, Biittner & Hallenstein, Dee-street. COTTAGE WANTED.— Wanted to Rent a four-room Cottage; Apply G., P. H. Gallop, Agent Cobb and Co., Tay-strcet. WANTED, Quarter-a ere Land on North Road, part bush, within one mile of Post Office ; state particulars and cash price. A. M., office of this paper. WANTED a smart active Youth, aboil. 1 6 years of age, to assist in a s hop Apply to C. Higgins & Co., Dee-streot, opposite Mr Clarke's allotment.