HARD TIMES FOR THE DOCTOR
WHY HE RAISED HIS FEES.
Doctors' fees have gone up, and some people are grumbling because their .medical men are charging them double what they paid before the war (says the London "Daily News"). A family practitioner, interviewed, protested against the statement that dbcors are profiteers. "Wo have to live, ,, ho.said, "we have to maintain a position, and we have to make allowances for- bad debts—which are certainly a bigger item with many of us than they used to be. When workmen," he added, "demand more■ waßes < they are held to be doing something quite legitimate; yet, if a doctor tries to regulate his fees according to the cost of living he is accused of being a profiteer."' Doctors were working very hard just now, he' said, and, nWeyer, had often to give very long credit. And very few doctors made a practice- of suing patients on ,accouiit of unpaid bills.
HOW' HIUDACHES START.
Headaches may be started by a hundred aud one derangements of the health, but tho actual cause is often impure blood. The nerves 'of the head aro the most sensitive of the entire nervous system. Like alt the norves of tho body they are dependent upon pure blood lor theU , health. They are effected by any dorangeraont of the system that throws impurities into tho blood. Sufferers from headlines will' find that their health: is run down or that thoir digestion is out of order, or that thoi'O is some other causo why tho blood is impure. Jt is only natural then that the iicrves should complain and that tho head should ache uiul throb.
The most dangerous practice that aufforers i'rora hendnobe can fall into is tho taking of drugs that merely doadon tlw> pain. As time goes on the patient finds that sho ha« to increase tho dose to got the sain* effect, and later many become a dnip slavo. Tho correct treatment aims at eliminntinfj tho caneo of headaches. Such a blood-making lonic as Dr. "Williams* Pink. Pills can be recommended to every headacho sufferer. In building up tho blood, tlioy not only etrengthen-»»d Ipro -ap tlio system, but nourish end freo the nerves from pain. The rill' »'o froo from all harmful or hab'Uorwing drugs B'hioli are eo common in he&rinche remedies. Your nearest donler in modicino can efipply you. A'valuable littln book on "Builiiim; Pp the Blood" -will bo siivi free to sny address on, application (o Uw Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Hoi 815,. G.P.0., Wellington.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 56, 29 November 1917, Page 9
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