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What Doctors Save Earned.
A 'writer on doctors' fees in a popular
London weekly says that Sir Wiljiam
Bowman, the famous ocnlist, never
charged less than 150 guineas for an
operation. In the height of his
celebrity Sir Morell Mackenzie, the
throat specialist, earned £15,000 a-year.
When Sir Morell was summoned to
see Mr. Stirling Crawford his fee was
1000 gnineas, Bat an offer of 5000
gnineas conld not induce him to cross
the Atlantic to attend a sufferer in
Milwaukee. He was attending the
Emperor Frederick at the time, a
service that was understood to have
brought him £12,000 in fees. In 1887
Mr. Anderson Critchefct was asked to
go out to -India to operate an a native
prince, hat he declined, although the fee
proffered was, raised to £7000. Sir
Astley Cooper's greatest income made
in any year was £21,000. His biggest
fee was 1000 guineas, flung to him by a
relieved West Indian millionaire in his
nightcap, in an excess of gratitude.
Equally big fees are paid to foreign
surgeons and physicians. The famed
Dr. Sklifassfeky, of St. Petersburg,
travelled to Odessa to operate on one of
the rich Ball! family. He was engaged
for 20 minutes and received 11,000
roubles, or £1222. Before returning to
the' capital a lady paid him a farther
£222 for similar service. The equally
famons Parisian Pole,. Dr. Galezowski,
had a fee of £5000 for journeying to
Beshtto cure an eye complaint of the
Shah of Persia's second son., America
claims the record for medical fees, as in
most cases. Dr. Parhes, of Chicago,
was 25 days away from his practice
attending a San Francisco millionaire.
He received £200 per., day and all
expenses. This is nothing to the fee
paid by Mr. Flagher, of the Standard
Oil Company, tp Dr. Shelton, of Hew
York, for caring his daughter. He
handed the doctor securities of the par
value of £10,000 which he could sell in
the open market for £l7j000.
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