KINGLY FEES TO DOCTORS.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 51, 19 May 1910, Page 3

KINGLY FEES TO DOCTORS.

Tbo doctor who attended “‘Lucky " Baldwin, the millionaire mine-owner, has just, presented a bill amounting to £20,000 for professional attendance over a period of twelve years. Even should the Courts uphold his claim, this sum, large as it is, would not be a record one.

King Edward's health has cost a huge sum. When, as Prince of Wales, ho was seriously ill some years ago, Dr. William Jenner attended him for four weeks and received a fee of £IO,OOO. Another £IO,OOO was paid to Sir William Gull for his attendance on the King during his serious illness from typhoid in 1871, while the physicians who attended him during his severe illness in the coronation year received fees amounting to £20,000. The famous Professor Zacherine, of Moscow, received from the lather of the present Emperor of Russia a fee of £15,000 for two days’ attendance. Sir Morell Mackenzie received £20,000 for a weeks' attendance on the late Emperor Frederick of Germany,; and QueeD Victoria’s doctors, in her illness, received about £2,000 each.

Some time ago Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, the American millionaire, requested his physician to accompany him od a voyage. The doctor hesitated, and remarked that his practice was worth £2OO a week. The man of money finally agreed to give him £2,000 for the six weeks’ trip and pay all his other expenses.

Blind Dr. Gale, of Bristol, was paid the sum of £50,000 for curing the diseased knee of a wealthy gentleman. Senator Magee paid Dr. Browning the stupendous fee of £2oo,ooo—undoubtedly the largest fee on record. The late Shah of Persia pai'd Dr. Galezowski, of Paris, £5,000 for curing his son of an affection of the eye. Dr. Frank Billings claimed £5,000 for seven days’ attendance on Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant prince. ; The doctors who attended the late President McKinley after he was shot at Buflalo presented the United States with blUs to the *otoJ amount Of £8.504: