The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22
longer LIFE FOR NAN
The Future Of Medicine and Surgery
Is Like a Fairy Tale.

1-,curlbls - Disease of the Heart
ALONE is Likely to Prove Uncon-
querable.
Now York, April 21.-A glimpse into
-, s,tlre OF the art of healing is like
-l;r7nss into fairyland. A magic time is
ing when wonders win be possible.
1msrica has reason to he proud of her
. ION NJ medicine, and her surgeons lead
the world
,Isrt 10 their skill their chief charac-
,.ristfc IS nodesty. According to them
Gives. there is no greatest man" among
+ +bem They give the profession of heal
n W. credit for greatness; for themselves
.ser are content to take such credit as
sor,as from being students of it. So, when
# came 20 selecting the greatest living
N American physician as subject for the in
a ,.rvie,yer in this series, a difficulty was en-
n inferred When it was finally decided
Or. George r. Shrady to speak for
he nrofession, this dimculty grew. He
-rouId not hear of it on those grounds
T5e modgstyo of the individual physician
e even more than ordinarily strong with
mr. Sbrady. At last, after much per-
erasion. he consented to answer questions,
. but simply as a representative of his pro-
fsesion Of hin self he had almost moth
B ing to say
sieian. except the late Sir Morell Mac
Ienzie. the English doctor who treated
IyTneror Frederick, Of Germany has
over had his work and his personality
held so prominently in the light of wide
implicitly, and certainly no work has suf-
fered less from such exposure.
The event which brought DR.. Shrady
into the public view with prominence
ro+ IN be forgotten, was his skillful, low
inc treatment of Gen. u. 5. Grant during
mat wonderful mans last illness. For
many weeks all the mill ons of America,
cav bv day. hung breathleS on Dr.
Shradv's words of good or evil tidings, as
Va the case might be. The whole world full
of sympathiling Grant admirers, waited
Tor his bulletins; a whole world full of
critical physicians watched his methods.
And when the weary, hopeless vigil sor-
fully ended, the whole world said TO
the faithful doctor, you did the best
that could be done" When martyred
Garfield lay dying, Dr. Shrady was called
in the final consultation. When emperor
Frederi,k's sutleriugs saddened ciyiliza-
tion. Dr. Mackenzie kept in constant
cable communication with his eminent
American colleague. The newspapers
announced at THAI time that DR.. Shrady
had been invited to Join the consultation,
but he never admitted this TO be the fact.
HIS NEW YORK HOME,
DR.. Shrady lives quietly in handsome
but unpretentiOus brown stone house on
a East SiXty-slXtn street, near the park.
One Of his TWO daughters Is the wife Of
Edwin Goud, son of the late Jay Gould,
one is unmarried. and he has three sons,
two of them in college. He is not tall
man, but his comfortably rounded frame
is compact and well prorortioned, and
every motion hints OF great vital force.
HIS face is strong featured, keen eyed
and expressive. An iron gray g0atee d.
vides a square firm chin. and a heavy
mustache partly hides a mouth whose
almost constantly good natured curves
NJ can change instantly on occasions into
the strong lines OF determination. His
eyes are brilliant gray, not deep set
nor shaded by heavy eyebrows. His
mest feature is his forehead, which is
broad and high. Dropping on one side of
His snqcious Office is Iinad VIII 49, l'i,s
every one OF which he knows and can nut
his hand on at a moments notice In
deed. the accuracy OF his memory is i'm
pressiye In the center of the room
stands a splendid carved desk of a neat
N A.SS IHdU SHOWS the DOCTORS COmDlptp
precision OF habit Opening from the
n rear of this study is a tinv operating
room, fitted with the ADJUSTABLE chair of
a surgeon. ominous of cutting
It was in the studv that he sat the
other night and talked before a wood five
in the crate. On the manteI over the
blaze fanking a swee5lv Ginning clock
Anle with which Incorporation upon Gar
Held was performed. An inscription
ground on the glass says that it was pre-
SgGted 10 Or. Shrady by DR.. d. Willard
bliss the distinguished surgeon, who
made the last hours of Guiteau's great
tc'lm easy as human skill could make
Them
~, ~. Shrady is an original thinker
through all his talk a quaint philosophy
ran, 1ull of odd thoughts, all commonsen-
sIoIe, all instructive. That part of his
,,2n;ersation must te lost in writing. The
A'ue asides and comments were 90 deli
edJe' TOO volatile for the ability OF the
present writer to transfer to paper.
TIVE sr-p,,,-,,,- 49,. -..
o1rbat M IN '1 lnE Fu1 hA'
r t,~o H Ia WllIS3e me medicine Of the fu-
IN NJ Dr, 9hradyf" asked.
n - ne sfel!esu advance will be in sur
n Iepileu the doctor. Its posi-
ra .'s-go arc almost unllml ed. There is no
re, '0.- W suppose mat the advance of the
q tb5' Nv Ivy .t ye rs Will not be as great as
81 ,ro WI yLe VaSI deo ade. That has been
Q" WONDERFUL chat even SURGEON S-tbc y-a,,,y