DOCTORS’ FEES.

Evening Star, Issue 9888, 27 December 1895, Page 4

DOCTORS’ FEES.

A writer on doctors’ fees, jaw pppujar English' weekly, Saya'thah'“Sir William Bowman, \he fatuous oculist, never charged less than. Isff guineas for au operation. In the height of ui£,celebrity Sir Morell Mackenzie, the specialist, earned £15,000 a year. . When. Sir Morell was summoned to Cannes to see Mr Stirling Crawford, his fee was 1,000 guineas, "but an offer of 5,000 guineas could not Jnduee him to cross the Atlantic-to attend a sufferer’in Milwaukee. He was attending the Emperor Frederick at the time, a service thkt was understood to have brought him £12,000 Tu fees. . . . In 1887 Mr Anderson Gritohett was asked to go b.ut to India to operate on a Native Prince, but he .declined, although the fee proffered was raised to ( £7,000. Sir ‘Astley Cooper’s greatest income made in any year was £21,000. His biggest fee was 1,000 guineas, flung to him by a relieved West Indian millionaire in his nightcap, in an excess of gratitude. EquaUy big-fees are;paid to foreign surgeons aird physicians. The famed Dr Sklifassfsky, of St. Petersburg, travelled to Odessa to operate on one of the rich Rilli family. He was engaged for twenty minutes, and received 11,000 roubles, or £1,222. Before returning, to the oapitoJTa lady paid him a further £222 for a similar service. The equally famous Parisian Pole, Dr Galezowski, had a fee of £5,000 for journeying to Resht to cure an eye complaint of the Shah of Persia’s second son. Ip this ease the Shah did not consult his astrologers to' know if he should let. the medicine man return to his country with hia hqad or without • it. AmeriCJt'’ ’claims' the record in medical, fees,, as in linost things. Dr parkes, of Chicago, wastwenty-live days away from bis.uwnpractice attending a San Francisco millionaire. He received £2OO a day and all expenses. This is nothing to the iee paid by ,'Mr .Flagher, of the Standard Oil Company, -to Dr Shelton, of New York, for curing his daughter. • He handed, tho doctor teaurities of; the par value of £IO,OOO, which he‘could sell in the open market for£l7,4po;” , : ;; ,