Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-02-26

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and fame in medicine to-day is through
some specially. New York is rapidly
specializing in the medical profession.
By it's careful specialism it attracts
students from the whole Union and
Canada. But the particular thing that
this minute division of labor does is to
| induce doctors who have practlced
several wears to visit New York. These
doctors. from % to so years of age, can
be seen there from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. Many of such doctors wish to
enter a specially themselves. They
! have left their home after accumulatlng
enough to study a short time, when
! they return it will be to gradually work
into a speciality. OF course 1t Is
frequently the case that the general
practitioner says that the specialist IS
crazy. He rides hobby, he is narrow
and knows only one thing, but little the
specialist will care about the general
practitioner if he can cure his patient.
| Every man knows to-day that the field
of medicine is so wide that it is impossi-
! BILE to know we'll more than single
branch O. it. In New York there exists
two schools to train physicians in gen
eral or special work. Ihe instructors in
these schools are all specialists and in
clude nearly all of the best specialists
of the city. The opportunity for prac-
tical medical instruction in New York
is very great, for the large and numer-
Gus hospitals are full of abundant cllnl-
cal material. No city in the world
possess finer or cleaner hospitals 1t
NAV be stated without much fear OF
contradiction, that the most elegant
operating room for surgical work, is IN
New York. Thousands of dollars were
expended in It's construction. Its sides
are lined for two-thirds Of the distance
from the floor to the ceiling with pol
ished marble slabs. Every thing else
connected with it is made in the same
costly style. 1t is made so that absolute
cleanliness can be practiced. Medical
competition in New York is intense and
the wonder is bow SO many medical
men can make living The fact is it is
very difficult to acquire practice from
the sharp active rivalry. The medical
and surgical work of New York is gen
orally of high order, and its specialists
rank among the best in the world A
cosmopolitan city like New York will
be represented in every branch of
knowledge by the best brain and most
talented men. In the ministry it rank
ed second to none. But as one comes
to the great city now there broods
little sadness over a vacant pulpit
chair made glorious by great thoughts
for mans welfare. Henry Ward
Beecher, the golden mouthed orator, of
America, has ceased his strains Of elo-
quence. What greatness has fallen INTO
the tomb of silent death, IS only meas
ured by the sadness of our loss. This
great man was in love with nature and
: natures God. His eloquent words
flowed like oil from his mouth, and the
muslc of his voice was like the cadence
: of the sea. He started long, long years
ago to preach for liberty Of the slaves.
His sermon on slavery was illustrated by
a little shining black Negro girl in the
) pulpit and a rifle across the pulpit load
ed for the foe The little black girl was
the object to liberate and the rifle was
of this wonderous man would fill vol
ume. He was enraptured by all natures
laws and the progress of the race. He
sailed across the seas to set the black
! man free. He plead for liberty ofmind
and scorned a country with slave. His
: pleasing eloQuence raised the hope o.
men above the sordid greed of gold
His words of wisdom cheered the sou
and filed the sky with light. He hearc
: the music in the rippling brook anc
L the hum of the birds was strain O
. song. He loved to see fat sleek cattle
= wondering over rich green pastures anC
u standing in the sunshine of content
u He saw beauty in the straw stack
!, CLEAN of gold, and the shumac's fam,
of red. He cleaned a pleasant stor'
| from the yellow waving fields of whea
% and the ripened stacks of golden grain
When he talked of stars he filed u
with dream of hope. Beechers elo
= quence was not impetuous, but it wa
: like pleasing story, rich and full o
Il thought and sparkling with the trutl
. that clung to memory like the simpl
II story of child. Some men are borl
u great and some have greatness thrus
u upon them by accident, a Stumbling O.
% discovery, and by one turn of the whee
@ of fortune, greatness springs to ighf
;" But Beecher's greatness grew wit
: years. His increasing powers fed upo
III l.. the soil of toll and labor as the grown
u tree on the ground. The incidents e1
% aggerated into storied episodes whic
10 presumed to mar his life, were but th
III human out come of distorted fancy, Dor
~ of envy, the root ofevil. He was not
II builder of new castles, but saved th
T. nation of his day and studied well th
ls thoughts of men with whom he liveC
Is He preached on living questions thf
es conceived the life of men. He bore tn
in opposition of oppinioD with quiet fort
! tude and answered with the sword
~ reason which cut away the Stag thu
at covered up the gold, when arose th
r. poisoned tongue of slandeF which owe
40 cast a happy sky, he answered huma
- envy with a patient, quiet shrug, unit
90 the final sleep, then the story should b
an told Whom aPOSn tho crTal writer Z