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III llie lirsl place, il must never lie forgotten dial there is such | 1
thing as cluing a tiling for its own sake. The old saying that "Virtue ii j
its own reward” is particularly true in the practice of medicine. There 1
is a real satisfaction in seeing a boy walk smiling out of the hospital .
after one has successfully removed a fish hook from his finger. The 1
badly aching molar gives way before the doctor's skill so that he can say ’I
to himself “Well! That fellow will sleep tonight anyhow.” -j
A mother comes in weeping. The baby has a bean up its nose or a i
shell in its ear. A whiff of chloroform and the dreadful intruder u !
evicted. The mother and child leave the hospital in blissful content
No one else in all Kuwait could have done this for them. The mother
knows it too, if she stops to think about it. Little things these, but tre*

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A motor car drives up to the hospital. Amongst an overload gf
occupants is huddled a man, who, in a fall off his donkey, has di»»
located an elbow. Fortunately, it can be reduced without an anesthetic i
and as the bones slip into their proper places and the joint can once more J
be moved, a look of astonishment and surprise comes over the face U
the sufferer. The doctor has had his reward! J
Again, a mother brings her only son. His ankle was fractured soa* i
weeks ago. It received no treatment and now the foot is almost upudf a
down. The foot is straightened and put in a plaster cast and five or u* ^
weeks later the boy is walking about, without even a stick to help hi^ §
In fact he walks the full mile from his house to the hospital to advcnin ,J
his ability. All this is sweet to the doctor. IS