Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-14
(From the Ohio State Journal.)
A Remarkable Physician.


Surgical Career of DR.. S, b. Hart
man-C Columbus The Headquarters of
The Greatest Physician and Most Skill
ed Surgeon Of the Age-A Chapter Of
Instructive Nesos.
There are few great men, There are
few-who, in the practice of their pro-
fession or avocation. are able to outstnp
their fellows and rise to such relative
pre-eminence as to be called great. Nat
ure seems to have doomed all but very
few to mediocracy, whether in art or
in science. The capitalization Of
science is slowly elevating the mass Of
mankind, but furnishes no means by
which one man may usurp any great
superiority. Great men are born, not
male. The reason why some men rise
like rocket far above the habitual
dead level does not appear either in
their faithfulness or opportunities.
Others, with faithful application and
opportunities, fail to get beyond the
commonplace. The world furnishes
to-day but few great surgeons, although
it furnishes great many. Surgery, as
an art, is surely, yet slowly, improving;
but the number of men who can be
called great, as compared to the many.
as still as few as ever. Such cities as
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago
can each boast of one, or possibly two,
men who can be TRULY called great sur
gecns. 1t is, therefore, with just pride
that our city columbus. Ohio) can,
without any exaggeration, claim as a
resident great surgeon. His name
DR.. S. b, Hartman-is known to all, and
has become household word to many.
Wishing to find out the exact truth con-
corning the many reports concerning
his remarkable cures. a reporter visited
his offices, 24l and 24S South Fourth
street. The doctor, of course, is very
busy man, as the crowd of waiting
patients testify, and being quite disin-
clined to talk of his great success in his
profession, we CLEANED few facts from
observation and conversation with pa
tients. He is regarded by the eagor
crowd of patients as wonderful man,
holding him in almost superstitlous awe
obeying implicitly his minutest direc-
tons. He has very distinguished
personality, noble head, fine, intelli-
gent face, keen, pleasant eyes, a rich,
cultivated voice; these make an i'm.
preston at first sight one cannot forget.
One visit at his office is enough to con-
vince anyone that the doctor is truly O
| great surgeon. As to the main facts OF
DR.. Hartman'S Life,
they can be briefly stated. Born in
Pennsylvania, he came to Ohio when
fifteen years of age. After taking lit
erary course at the Farmers College, :
near Cincinnati, he studied medicine
under the distinguished DR.. Shakleford,
of Midway, and, after taking course
of lectures at the University Medical
College of Cleveland. he practiced med
icine most successfully at TippecanOe.
Desiring, however, to make special
study of diseases of the eye and ear and
deformities of the body, he went to
New York, where he attended ali the
large eye and ear infrmaries and Ortho-
pedic hospitals. He then went to JEFF
ferson Medical College, the celebrated
Philadelphia institution. and, after talk
ing a special course on the eye and ear,
and full course of lectures, he grad
uated with honors. He established him
self at his old home in Lancaster county,
Pa. There he practiced for some
twelve years with a success that made
him famous throughout all Eastern
Pennsylvania. Especially did he be-
come celebrated for his unparalleled
success in the treatment of the eye and
ear and deformities of the feet, limbs,
and body in general. Soimmense did his
office and his general practice become
that it taxed even his extraordinary
vital energies to the utmost TO take
care of it. The work he did during
these years would have laid dozen or
binary men in their graves. As it was,
his own Herculean constitution finally
succumbed to the intense strain, and be
was compelled to relinquish his general
practice, and, combining health with
business, to make tonr of the States in
the practice of his specialties.
And it was here that DR.. Hartman S
career as physician and surgeon of
national renown began. Henceforth
broad expanse of the mighty Union was
to be his field of labor. And, from the
day he started out on that first tour, to
the present time, the number of his pa
tients has grown until now there is not
a city, village or hamlet in the United
States 10 which his name and the fame
of his wondrous doings have not pene-
trated.
One cannot be in the Doctors Office
ten minutes without being astonished
by his method of treating patients. The
rapidity of which he disposes of case
is almost inconceivable. And when it is
borne in mind that he is as successful as
he is lapld, one cannot but feel that this
man is one of the most extraordinary
personages this age has seen and this
are has been blessed with. Take q
case that occurred while The reporter
was present. 1t was that of u lady who
had long suffered the Inconvenience and
the bIemish of a crooked eye. But.
anxious as she was to have it cured. she
could hardly pursuade herself to endure
the operation. Before the lady could
realize that he had touched her eye, her
eye was straight as an eye could be-!
"Why, doctor!'' she cried, lis it all
over? Why, | didn't feel it. And |
thought it would take you an hour at
least. | can hardly believe it. 1t seems
Ike a miracle?" And yet this is a most
common case with DIR. Hartman. He
Strengthened this lady's eye in less than