San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-19
ASFOTHERS SEE Us.
A st. Louis MediCS,NS EulO-
gy n San Antonio.
HE WRITES OF THE GULF BREEZ-
ES AND INTERESTING
POINTS OF THE CITY.
He Pays A Glowing Tribute II
Local Physicians And Also To
The Santa Rosa Hospital
And Its Atten-
iantS.

and surgery. DR.. Summers came here
in response to a telegram to confer
with local surgeons anent a case of
supposed traumatic epilepsy, in
which the expediency of an operation
was the point at issue.
after a long, hot, dusty ride
through Kansas, Indian Territory and
or Northern Texas we rolled into the
city of the Alamo amid troops of
soldiers in flashing uniforms and gay
regalia for the encampment of the
State Guard and the great Interstate
drill. which had been inaugurated by
the enterprising citizens at great eX-
pense. writes the doctor in current
number of The Clinique. Thousands
of troops were assembled and the
whole country had the look of mill
tary camp.
THE case TO which we were called
was, an exceedingly interesting one.
The patient, young man of fine
physique-a thorough athlete-himself
prominent in military circles, was in
jured nearly five years ago by being
struck upon the right side of the head
by the fall on an iron weight which
gave little concern at the time; but
some months after, while drilling his
company he fell in an epileptic seizure,
and though under the very best OF
treatment there was a recurrence or
the trouble until the seizures were
so frequent as to disturb the molecu-
lar structure of the brain, finally re-
sulting in acute mania. His sur
geOns, the we'll knawn and beloved
physician and surgeon whose name
throughout Texas is 4 household
word. of DR.. +. Herff was reluctant
to believe in the eXpediency of an
operation with the conditions before
him; but as the seizures became more
numerous and the mania most de-
plorable in its character, he yielded
TO. DIR. McDanielPs request-then his
attending surgeon in the absence of
DR.. Herff, Jr.-and operated some
weeks before we were called, using
the largest trephine upon the right
side, with apparently good success
until on the fifth day there was a
return of the seizures and mania,
upon which we were called to con-
suit, deciding Immediately to per-
lut tAltuSlNt
Grafton. which, of course, is nothing
more than a more extensive trephin-
alton, giving both hemispheres a sim
ultaneous sense of relief from pres
sure.
"And here we must stop to offer
eulogy upon the lofty state of pro-
fessional ethics in this lovely historic
city. Seldom has it been our pleasure
to meet with such perfect gentlemen
as those who make up the higher ele-
ments of the medical profession in San
Antonio. We found them courteous,
open-hearted, liberal and withal cul-
tured and profound in all that goes
to make up the great men of the pro-
fession. No petty jealousies disturb
their professional intercourse, and the
cordial greeting and support which
was rendered us under circumstances
which might have been very embar-
RAISING will long remain in our men,
ory as an evidence that the grandeur
of our profession has not yet died out
in the world. The linear operation
was performed with the assistance of
Drs. +. Herff, A. S. Mcdaniel, Ken
ney, Braunnagel "a graduate of z. and
| 81 Oldham and SOmmerYille.
THE operating room of Santa Rosa
Hospital, like everything else in this
splendid institution, is fitted up after
the most approved modern methods
1t is the loveliest place for operating
we know of in all our hospital eX,
perience. 1t is of course under the
control of the Sisters, all of whom are
thoroughly trained nurses, familiar
with every modern method and carry
ing out quietly, and most delightfully."-
to the operator every detail in the
clinical history of the case. Tn,
building itself is "a thing of beauty
and a joy forever 1t is simply a per
feet bijou-a triumph of surgical ar
chitecture. 1t is absolutely SO nea
! in all of its appointments that yoI
are tempted to brush the seat of you
trousers even to sit upon the floor
And such breezes! The great Gull
fans the fevered cheek with its coolin.
draughts of an, and in the precinct
of Santa Rosa it is hard to believ,
that any microbe could find a mo
ments's resting place.
''Dr. Herff, to whom we have alread,
referred to as the Deus eX machina o
wastern Texas medical life, is some
what advanced in years, but, as oil
DR.. Bowling used to say-'he was borl
yesterday He looks twenty years a
least younger than he is, and with
+; clear and well-stored brain, a vas
S experience, a conservative mind o
, all subjects and the tactus emditus i
surgery, he is one of the grand
est men that the South, prolific O
of greatness as it is, has ever prOduC
ed. Dr. 4. S. Mcdaniel, thong
younger, is a man of remarkable ski
and an overwhelming practice, which
= however, he has the splendid physiqu
to endure to the uttermOst. He, toe
is a remarkably conservative ma