CHAPTER XI.. Getting Additional Fees. Patients Who Have 153

GETTING ADDITIONAL FEES. Patients Who Have 153 Paid Big Fees for Treatment Almost Invariably Good for a Second Payment—Lines Upon Which More Money May Be Had—Men of 50 Years and Over Gold Mines When They Have the Means—How to Handle Them—Dangling the “Sexual Vigor” Bait in a Delicate and Effective Manner—Suggestions of Supplementary Treatments That Bring Additional Fees—Arrangements With Occulists, Pharmacists, Surgeons and Instrument Dealers That Add Materially to the Physician’s Income—How Patients Are Induced to Patronize the Specialist’s Allies—Secret Ciphers That Result in Extravagant Charges—Division of the Proceeds—Adventure With an Undertaker—Doctors Who “Sponge” Upon Their Professional Brethren