Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-13


cock whose leg they had purposely and wicked
ly- broken merely to play trick upon the doc
tor. Finding they did not come back in fort
night, DIR. Hullihen politely notified them of the
patients entire cure and readiness to return
home. No attention being paid to this message,
he sent back the chicken with bill of twenty
dollars for professional services. The charge
was ridicul,d, as he expected, and payment re-
fused; but the doctor notified them that he
would bring suit, and the matter was according
" brought before magistrate. Hullihen made
his own Simple statement of the facts, and judy
ment glds gieea IN his tavor for the fulk amount
Of the bill: this sum the doctor requested
should be given to charitable institution. =
By this result of practical joke, the jokers be-
came the laughing-stock of the whole town,
while the man they intended to mortify was
advanced in popularity and public estimation.
The general state of dental surgery at the
southwest, and indeed anywhere, twenty or
twenty-five years ago, leaves one greatly in the
dark as to whence DIR. Hullihen could have de.
rived his high standard of practice in that de-
partment of surgery. He had read and digest
ed the English works and a few TRANSACTIONS
from the French then existing, but these afford.
ed very slender capital in the way of example
or guidance to n man beginning his professional
career in q small Western town. His reliance
then, we may safely conclude, was in his own
natural abilities, backed by an honest and perse-
vering ambition
III truth, l1ulunen was q man OF true genius,
and especially gifted III reference to original con-
ceptions whereby to overcome difficulties; he
possessed the discriminating mind, the rapid eye,
and the cunning hand that act in harmony and
combine to produce spontaneous and correct de-
cisions These qualities, so peculiarly marking
the great and successful surgeon, became at once
apparent to the sufferer for whose reliefDr, HUI
linen was called in; it was not merely when he
assumed the task of bold and difficult opera.
ton, but when his earnest, clear and methodi
cal mind applied itself to the examination of
case, there was a laith-inspiring confidence in
his own heart permitting no doubt that the very
best interests of the patient, and nothing else,
would govern the surgeons rule of action.
| Hullhen had warm and most generous heart
one so full of tho best impulses toward his
fellow men that he never found room there for
himself, or time to consider his own interests;
and yet such was the untiring industry of his
active professional life and the many strong per-
sonal attachments he inspired, that grateful and
unexpected compensations continually came to
his ungrasping hand, to be again scattered by an
unselfsh liberality. "a
DR.. Hullihen received the degroo of Doctor Of
iDgton College, Baltimore, Maryland; but he had
no wish to, and never did practice general med
tcine. His great success and usefulness appear
ed In surgical operations, and these were not
confined to the town of Wheeling: patients of
all classes confiding in his skill and frank char
uClSIs CiLlue III great NUMBERS from the sur
rounding country, and it is no exaggeration to
state that the value of his services as well as the
influence Of his reputation eventually came to
be considered precious as the common property
Iof Wheeling. Hence, whenever any worthy
scheme, whether charitable or POLITICAL was to
be successfully carried through, it seemed a ne
cesSary preliminary to obtain for it the interest
appreciation, and cooperation of DIR. Hullihen
On such Occasions-and they. were numerous
| beyond credbility-the object, whatever it
might be, was sure to receive the most active in
defatigable efforts of Which he was capable, and
others were soon. brought over to it by his gem
erous example no less than by his sound, sensi-
bic arguments. Prominent among the good
projects of DIR. Hullihen was his great desire to
establish public hospital at Wheeling where
the sick and disabled of every. class might find
proper attendance while under medical treat
nent OF surgical operations He well knew that
much suffering might be spared5b by judicious at
tentions, and that, in many instances, lingering
maladies, and even the loss of life ITSELF was the
sad result of bad nursing. To found such a
hospital he exerted himself in every direction
that seemed practicable: us anenber of the
city council and otherwise, he endeavored to en-
list the city itself in the humane enterprise, but
without success. Nor was he able, during sew
eral years of effort. to secure any material aid
from any quarter. In the mean time-hiS own
growing reputation as asurgeon, iocculist, and
dentist was as have said, attracting patients
/ Ioul a uISGlnceI anu somewhat TO meet the eXl.
lgencies of his private practice, he established
an intirmary of his own. The prosperity and
increasing importance of this unpretending
charity became the cherished object of his
daily and devoted attentions. and at length
he concertedl measures with Bishop Whe-
Ian, gentleman of great energy and prac-
teal Cbenevolence, to establish a hospital
under the charge of one of the religious or
ders Ofthe Catholic church. Having secured
the aid of the sisters" with the cooperation
of tho bishop, he entered upon the work of
building up his favorite institution with all the
earncstness and devoted zeal which marked his
character. A house was purchased by the
bishop for the residence of the Sisters" and
DIR. Hullihen supplied it with patients at once
to the extent of its capacity. This beginning
must have been made about seven years ago,
and not long afterward (AIarch H. 1860 char.
ter was obtained, for corporation under tho
name of ''The Wheeling Hospital" This cor
lporation is now the owner of large and com.
mOdious building at the north end Of the city,
property purchased two years since, and the
building has been subsequently much enlarged.
At the time of DIR. Hullihen's death it had be-
come the resort of patients from all pa Is of the
country, brought there chiefly by his high rep
utation and remarkable success. He had not
only contributed largely to the proSneritv of