£50,000 DOCTOR'S FEE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 1174, 15 February 1919, Page 3

£50,000 DOCTOR'S FEE.

Some remarkable fees have been paid to doctors by wealthy individuals whom they have attended. Dr. Keys, a well-known New York physician, was invited by one of the Vanderbilts for a pleasure trip on his palatial yacht and incidentally to loot after the health "bill. This trip brought the doctor in nearly £12,000. Rockefeller, the oil king, is said to have made an offer of £1,000,000 to any doctor who would cure him of bis chronic indigestion, for although the richest man in the world has everything that money can buy, he is unable to get a new set of digestive organs, and he cannot enjoy even tha lightest of foods. The biggest doctor's fee on record was £50,000 paid to Dr. Gale, the blind medical masseur of New York, for a few weeks' successful treatment of a millionaire's leg.

Twenty thousand pounds was paid by "Lucky" Baldwin, the millionaire copper king, who died some years ago in California, to his medical attendant.

The Czar's personal physician is reported to receive an enormous salary for keeping His Majesty in good health, and is said to have received recently £15,000 for two days* attendance.

The Kaiser, who is especially fastidioue about his petty ailments, keeps an anny of doctors constantly in attendance, whilst "Foxy" Ferdinand of Bulgaria is almost as afraid of his health as he is of being assassinated, and will not walk abroad without at least three physicians in attendance.