Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
A PERMANENT INSTITUTION.
Where Many Surgical Operations Are
PerfOrmed-Some Facts Con-
corning Kansas CIty's
Greatest Sanitarium.


Among the permanent institutions there
are none the people of Kansas City and vi
clnity take more interest in than DR.. Goes
Sanitarium, located at the southwest cor
Ler of Eleventh and Walnut streets. In
deed, this institution has been so long es-
tablshed and is so well and favorabIy
known, that its name has become a house
hold word in many families. The science
of medicine and surgery has kept even pace
with the progress of the age. and each
year and day brings new remedies and new
methods of preventing and curing all forms
of disease. 1t was in keeping with the
progress of science that DIR. Coe conceived
the idea of opening a sanitarium, where
the sick and afflicted could have the ad-
vantage of a private home while under
going course of treatment for some dis
ease or deformity y talk with Dr. Coe re-
vealed the fact that, Notwithstanding the
hard times, the business of the Sanitarum
was greater in 1896 than in any previous
year. More patients have been treated in
the year just gone out than in any one
before-more surgical operations and more
cures have been performed in the year Just
gone out than in any year before Mt the
Sanitarium, where numerical record of
all cases is kept, show a history of every
descriptions and diagnoses of every form
of disease and deformity.
Among the surgical cases during the last
year may be mentioned Mrs. Della Swift,
of Norwood, Mo, who had an ovarian tu-
NOR removed. and was restored to health
and viSor. Mrs. Budworth. of Saline coun-
ty, Mo-, who had carried her arm for years
III a sling suffering from tuberculosis and
dead bone, was operated upon by DIR. CCe
at the Sanitarium having the dead bone
removed and perfect health restored. Mar
tin Motzkus, of Ochletree, Kas., had sar-
coma, or cancer of the lower jaw: had
doctOred for years. finally being given up
as incurable by his physicians. He came
10 the Sanitarium on November IT, 1896.
and was operated on by DR.. Coe, who re-
moved half of the lower jaw. He has now
returned to his home with a fair chance
OF living many years. We might go on
indefinitely enumerating many such opera
tons, but space will not permit. But. be-
fore dropping the subject. we desire to
mention the disease of club feet. In ordl-
nary case of club feet, braces may be de-
pended upon to overcome the deformity,
but very often an operation is necessary
and many cases will be found similar to
Willie Adams, of Bethany. Mo-, whose feet
were so bad some of the bones of the in
step had to be removed. Dwight Kuchen-
thai. of Cedar Junction, Kas, whose feet
required wedge-shaped piece to be re-
moved before the foot could be drawn into
proper shape. If you have club-footed
child, you can tell by feeling the feet that
the bones are large and deformed. and that
braces alone would be the most barbarous
and painful treatment. These operations
are not necessarily very painful. but should
not be neglected. as they produce such a
satisfactory result.
Another distressing deformity that has
been treated with an unusual degree Of
success at the Santarium is that of spinal
curvature. DR.. Coe has for the last num-
ber of years treated this disease by means
OF suspension, or spinal wagon. which
proves of great assistance and relief to the
patient while being used
The principal object of this institution is
to treat successfully any form of disease
that may come under it's direction. To this
end its corps of physicians have been Sc
lected with unusual care They are mon
who have had years Of successful expert
eHce with ali forms of disease and deform-
tiles of the human frame. and are emf
nently capable of combating the evil Aside
from the cases mentioned in the fore part
of this article, the Sanitarium has effected
cures in the removal of tumors. opera
tions for piles. the treatment of cancer,
catarrh. bronchitis. paralysis, epilepsy, kid
ney complaint. bladder, eye. ear skin and
blood diseases During its existence the
volume OF business done has been so large
that there is hardly disease which has
not been treated. and that so skillfully as
to restore the afflicted one to health.
We could so on for days talking of the
wonderful methods and cures performed mt
this Sanitarium, SO interesting becomes the
question. and what can more interest the
reader. when we once consider. though we
may be free from pain just now. 1t is only
a question of time when we will all he
looking for an institution of science that is
able to battle with disease. and can give us
more days and years of health.