The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-17

! humanity g sake nave Couiplneu TO make
q surgeon whose services are acceptable
| in the highest degree and In every re-.
speot. DIR. Ousley is graduate of
Hahnemann Medical College, having re-
ceiyed her degree in 1890. One week
later she took up the duties of house
physician ana training school superin-
tendent at the National Temperance Hos
pital, nth the privilege OF outside prac-
tico In this position she made reputa-
iton for zeal and efficiency that brought
her into prominent notice. In 1893 DIR.
Ousley entered the Oh icago Baptist Hos
pital as house surgeon and supsrintend-
ent. In this capacity she enjoys the con-
fldenoe and grateful esteem of u vast
mum Der of people who have benefited by
her skill and care. She is Il thoroughly
modern practitioner, and has discarded
all the routine methods of treatment
anything. in short. that has 5not solid
foundation OF science. AS an example,
during her five years of hospital work,
EN- bracing all CLASSES of disease, DR..
Ousley has never administered alcohol in
any way. not even i'll local applications
She holds that it is never Indispensable,
and that its use is fraught with serious
danger, and in confirmation Of her opin-
ion shs can point to the writings of some
of the most eminent physicians the world
has ever known, as we'll as to her own
successful work. Formerly even the
mothers of new horn babes were drugged
with heavy doses of port wine and porter
under the mistaken notion that these
substances give strength. The com para
lively moderate use of alcohol nowadays
in hospitals and in private practice has
done much to lower the mortality in
many cases Of disease. To the accom-
plishment Of this good aim DR.. Ousley is
contributing in noteworthy measure.
AS woman Or. Ousloy Is much be-
loved for her gentleness and sweet tenn
permanent.
MEN HAVE AIDED THEM.
1t Is due to the kindly feeling and
helpfulness of the men that women have
made such rapid strides to success in
surgery. Men have got used to their
helpfulness. and now rely upon it. DR..
Rubin Ludlow, the aged surgeon at
Hahnemann, never operates without his
right-hand man to assist him, and that
fortunate person happens to be woman,
DR.. Cornelia Stettlsr, In whom he places
the utmost faith and confidence. Dr.
Byron Robinson generally calls in con-
sultation his wife, DR.. Luce White Rob-
inson. DR.. Byford always trusted in the
superior abilities of DR.. Marie Mergler
and none have ever had cause to regret
their action in any particular. But this
reliance has been the making of many a
woman surgeon who might not have
been able to breast the difficulties alone.
stake good DR.. Ethridge, who Is SO
well known in the f1eld,' said DR..
Bertha Van Hoosen. she relies for con-
siderab bile help upon the women who as
sist him. But III has been due to such
men as Ferguson, Fenger, Murphy,
and the rest that we women have gained
any progress at all. Now, in my travels
] have had an opportunity to compare
the surgical work which Is accomplished
in several Of the large cities. And find
that in New York especially, in Boston,
an in other lesser towns women have not
succeeded so well in this diffieult phase
of science. And by close observation
have discovered that it is due to an I'M
reasonable and foolish opposition on the
part of the men. What happy day 1t
will be when men and women can work
side by side, unselfshly, regardless of sex
or mental condition. Then, and not til
then. will the most telling work be &C.
oonplished.
PERFORMS "PRETTY OPERA
TIONS."
A brilliant, interesting and handsome
young woman, a surgeon with a clever
touch and one who perfor ms, in the Ian
guage Of her oo-workers, pretty oper-
alton" -suoh Is DR.. Bertha Van Hoosen.
She was graduated from the Ann Arbor
medical school. which she impartially
considers the best in the country. She
took postgraduate work in the post
SrdGud1o anu pOIy 1oouHAe sCuuU1Ss 1u6D
she was appointed superintendent of the |
Woman's Hospital in Detroit. Later she |
became assistant physician of the Kala-
mazoo insane asylum, then superintend- |
ent Of the New England Hopsital in Bos-
ton. She demonstrated anatomy at |
Ann Arbor for two yearsSnnd embryology |
ut the Woman's Medical College in this |
city for one year. She has operated at |
the Post Graduate, Charity, Baptist and |
Chicago hospitals, and at the Julia |
B urnham Hospital at Champlain. Her |
operations are generally conducted with |
DIR. Carr and DR.. Ousley, both of whom |
praise her ability highly.
DR.. Marie l.. White completes the list |
of WOE on surgeons who follow the prac- |
tioe of surgery to the exclusion of medi- |
cine. She ia graduate of the North |
western Medical College, and has worked |
on major abdominal cases principally In |
several of the hospitals, although abe does |
not disdain to try her hand az minor |
onses occasionally. Her experience covers |
only period of four years, and she as
yet 40 ts as assistant to older practition
ers. Her future, however. is certain.
She gives evidence of great promise.
There are other women in the local
field who WELD the surgeons knife
Others who have sought to gain that al