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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1974
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Popularity in losing!
Human nature, says the Bowmanville Canad-
ian Statesman, has to be considered peculiar
in many ways. Look at what has happened since
the federal election.
David Lewis, the NDP leader who was defeat-
ed in his own constituency and whose party also
lost seats, has achieved much more popularity
in newspapers, other media and with people
generally than he ever was able to gather at
the polling booths.
The same holds true for the Progressive
Conservative leader, Robert Stanfield. Now,
everybody is praising hien to the skies publicly
for his many sterling characteristics, but they,
in large numbers, didn't vote for him or his
party. And behind the scenes some of those
praising him are working hard to replace him
as soon as possible.
We always seem to feel sorry for the losers.
In newspaper circles it happens quiteoften.
A citizen may be a no-good buns all through
life, but let the person die and his obituary
will be filled with paragraphs of praise and
glowing tributes. We always do our utmost to
forget the bad qualities and look only upon
the good when giving anyone a send-off into
the great beyond.
Summing it all up we have come to the
conclusion that deep down we are all a bunch
of sentimental frauds. We don't like to kick
anyone when he's down, at least outwardly
where anyone can observe our actions. Under-
neath and over the back fence we'll cut the
guy to ribbons, but in public not a word will
be said or read telling others exactly how we
do feel.
Maybe it's just as well in the long run.
Nobody gets hurt that way and the losers or
their supporters can take some solace in keep-
ing the laudatory clipping for posterity.
(Clinton News Record)
Thoughts on gossip!
Most of us take delight in discovering the
follies and sins and shortcomings of others and
in chatting knowingly about thele . Gossip does
bring us some cheap comfort, giving us nice
feelings of superiority. Our weaknesses and
failures do riot seem so serious when we can
compare them with the monstrous ones of some
people we know. We like to gossip because it
generally makes us feel much better about
ourselves.
Behind much of our gossipping is rhe mech-
anism the psychologists call "projection."
There is the tendency to attribute to others
our own reprehensible attitudes and feelings.
A London psychiatrist, Dr. J. A. Hadfield,
has commented on this tendency:
"In judging others we trumpet abroad our
secret faults. We personalize our unrecognized
failings, and hate in others the very faults to
which we are secretly addicted. Like the lark
fluttering with agitation over her next, we
exhibit most flagrantly the very thing we
would hide."
Think about that the next time you are tem-
pted to assist in the distribution of malicious
rumors about someone you know.
Censorious gossip generally tells more
about the person who does the gossipping
than about the victim. In Albert Camus'
novel, "The Fall, " the narrator gives this
warning to his companion': "People hasten to
judge in order not to be judged themselves...
The Judgement you are passing on others ev-
entually snaps back in your face, causing
some damage." (contributed)
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QUACKS IN EVERY
PROFESSION
Last night I was listening to
a program on the radio about
the life of the Enrico Caruso,
whom many people believe to
be the greatest tenor that has
ever lived. It seemed that
Caruso was not feeling too well
and consulted a doctor who
diagnosed the pain as a touch
of neuralgia. The treatment
which he prescribed was about
as wierd as could be imagined
and it was continued even when
Caruso was spitting blood and
collapsed during a performance.
When he was finally put in the
hands of soine competent
doctors, it was discovered that
he had an advanced state of
pleurisy and it was all the doct-
ors could do to save his life.
He was never able to sing
again and the world was thus
deprived of one of the greatest
voices of all times.
This story had a rather famil-
iar ring about it and anybody
who has seen the excellent
play this summer at the Strat-
ford Festival Theatre - Moliere?
The Imaginary Invalid --will
know all about charlatans in
the medical profession. If you
haven't seen the play, I highly
recommend it and I'm not
giving anything away by telling
you that it concerns a man who
is quite healthy but has let
himself be convinced by a
doctor that he is in poor health
and needs all sorts of treat-
ments to keep hila on an even
keel. He is a confirmed hyp-
ochondriac. He tries to marry
his daughter off to a doctor
that is even worse than the one
he has and, when this fails,
decides to join the medical
profession himself. The entire
play takes a healthy swing at
the medical profession and
most people who see the play
assume that Moliere was exag-
gerating a bit inorder to inake
his point.
Nothing could be farther
from the truth. The Imaginary
Invalid is one play where Mol -
fere doesn't have to stretch a
point at all. The medical prof-
ession in the 17th century was
every bit as bad as described
and even worse. It is even safe
to say that Moliere erred on the
side of leniency. At that time
the public was so gullible that
they treated as holy writ the
elaborate ceremonies and the
air of learning assumed by the
doctors and accorded them the
sante kind of respect that we
give to scientists or astonauts
today. Moliere lived at the thin
of the famous French King,
Louis XIV and one of his own
physicians had a passion for
antimony, a chemical ressembl.
ing arsenic, which he used in
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great quantities. He is accused
of having killed his wife,
daughter, nephew, two sons -in
law and any number of other
patients with this remedy.
What is strange is that, while
everybody knew that his pat-
ients were dying but nobody
did anything about it.
Even Louis XIV was not imm-
une to this quackery. He might
laugh at the antics of physicians
but they got him too in the end.
From the medical records
which we have from the 17th
century, we know that Louis
suffered from worms but other-
wise had the constitution of
an ox. It was only with the
greatest difficulty that his doct-
ors were able to reduce and
keep in the state of a chronic
invalid. Even though he was
subjected to a continual round
of bleeding, purging, blistering
and sweating, treatments that
would have killed most men in
short order, Louis managed to
live to be 72, and at death,
his organs were generally in
excellent condition.
The dentists, too, got in
their licks. During his lifetime
they had managed to remove
all his teeth and perforate his
palate so that he could no
longer chew or taste his food,
One observer of the scene wrote
that the king died of fatigue. If
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