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From the Ohio State Journal.
There are few great men. There
are few who, in the practice OF their
profession or avocation, are able 10
outstrip their fellows and rise to such
relative prominence as to be called
great. Nature seems to have doomed
all but. very few to medlocrlty,
whether in art or science. The pop
ularization of science is slowly elevat-
ing the mass of mankind, but fur
nishes no means by which one man
may usurp any great superiority
Great men are born, not made. The
reason why some men rise like
a 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
today but few great surgeons, al
though it furnishes great many.
Surgery, as an art, is surely, yet
slowly, improving, but the number OF
men who can be called great, as COM
pared to the many, are still as few as
ever. Such cities as New York, Phila-
delphia and Chicago can boast OF one,
or possibly two, men who can be truly
called great surgeons. 1t is, there
fore with just pride that our city Co
lumbus, Ohio, can, without any ex-
aggeration, claim as a resident a great
surgeon. His name-Dr. S. b. Hart
mans known to all, and has
become a household word to many.
Wishing to find out the exact
truth concerning the many reports
concerning his remarkable cures,
a reporter visited his offices, 24l and
243 South Fourth street. The doctor,
of course is very busy man, as the
crowd of waiting patients testify, and
being quite disinclined to talk OF his
great success in his profession, we
cleaned a few facts from observation
and conversation with patients. He
is regarded by the eager crowd of pa
TENTS as wonderful man, holding him
in almost superstitious awe, obeying
his minutest directions. He
has a very distinguished personality,
a noble head, fine, intelligent. face,
keen, pleasant eyes, rich, cultivated
voice these make an impression at first
sight one cannot soon forget. One visit
at his Office is enough to convince
any one that the doctor is truly a
great surgeon. AS to the main facts OF
DIR. HARTMAN's LIFE,
they can be briefly stated. Born in
Pennsylvania, he came to Ohio when
Is years of age. After taking liter
airy course at the Farmers College,"
near Cincinnati, he studied medicine
under the distinguished DR.. Shackle-
ford, of Midway, and, after taking a
course of lectures at the University
Medical College of Cleveland, he prac-
ticed medicine most successfully at
Tippecanoe. Desiring, however, to
make a special study of diseases of the
eye and ear and deformities of the
body, he went to New York, where he
attended all the large eye and ear in
frmaries and orthopedic hospitals.
He then went to Jefferson Medical
College, the celebrated Philadelphia
institution, and, after taking a special
course on the eye and ear, and full
course of lectures, he graduated with
honors. He established himself at
his old home in Lancaster county,
Pa. There he practiced for some
10 q
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. So i'm
mense did his Office and his general
practice become that it taxed even his
extraordinary vital energies to the ut
most to take care of it, The work he
did during these years would have
laid dozen ordinary men in their
graves. AS it was, his own Herculean
constitution finally succumbed to the
intense strain. and he was compelled
to relinquish his general practice, and,
combining health with business, to
make tour of the States in the prac-
tice of his specialties.
And it was here that Doctor Hart
mans career as a physician and sur
geon of national renown began.
Henceforth the 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 patients has
grown until now thereis not city,
village or hamlet in the United States
to 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 with which he disposes
of case is almost inconceivable. And
when it is borne in mind that he is as
successful as he is rapid one cannot
but feel that this man is one of the
most extraordinary personages this
age has seen and this generation has
been blessed with. Take case that
occurred while the reporter was pres
ent. 1t was that of a lady who had
long suffered the inconvenience and
n