A ROYAL DOCTOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2552, 17 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A ROYAL DOCTOR.

Tine work Karl Theodor, Duko Maximilliau's second son, U doing has already attracted no little attention in Kurope. The veriest medical f-tudent, whose life and bread depended on his work, never threw himself into the study of medicine with half llic ardour of this young scion of Royalty. When a boy, botany and chemistry were his favourite pursuits ; and no sooner were his school days over than he undertook medicine as a serious study, attending- the lectures, going through the hospitals, and finullv pa-sing the examinations that qualified him to practise as a doctor. Nor did his work end hero. Having ehosou the eye as his speciality, he devoted some years to a careful study of the various theories concerning the treatment of the blind This done, ho travelled through Europe, peeking tho advice and help of every oculist of special eminence in his profession ; and it was only when ho had learned from them all they could teach him that he returned to his palace at Tegern, where he established himself as a regular oculist. Anyone may consult him, his door stands open to all the world; the only difference between him and any other practitioner being that his rate of charges varies in direct ratio with the wealth of those who seek his aid. If he perform an operation for a rich man, the L'rince's fee is the same as that of any other doctor of equal skill — neither more nor less; if, however, the patient be one of those whose means do not allow of their indulging in such expensive luxuries as great doctors, well,

he lowers his charges to what they can afford to pay ; whilst, as for the poor— not merely mendicants, but officers with thirty pounds a year, civilians with perchance forty—all such as these Duke Karl Theodor not only attends without fee, but whilst they are under his care he receives them as guests, feeding aud earing for them with the most kindly thoughtfulness. — From " Working Princes," in the Cornhill Magazine for September.