The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-03
DIVISION
OF LABOR.
Trend of Modern Devel-
opement is Towards
Specialization.
German-AmeriCan
Staff of Physicians and
Surgeons is Founded
on the Propo.
sitiOn
That Every Member
Shall be a Trained
Specialist.


The avenues of human activity are so
many and so diversified that the man
who seeks to follow and become pro-
ficient in several lines of work, finds
himself Handicapped, and at the last
hopelessly out stripped in the race by
the one who, with keener discern
ment of conditions as they now exist,
chooses to follow one branch or spe-
cialty.
We find it to hold good in all occur
ences, trades and professions that
those who achieve the greatest sue
cess and perform their share of the
worlds work most acceptably and
effectively, have had the wisdom to
concentrate ie their efforts upon one de-
partment of work, and become master
of all that pertains to it.
There were centuries during which
knowledge was handed down from
generation to generation just as prec-
ious heirlooms are passed along from
sire to sJn and the sum total of
human knowledge seemed to diminish
rather than increase as the years roll
ed on.
Then came great awakening, when
the people began to examine and ques-
aion those fossilized ideqs'and dogmas
that have come down to them through
the centuries of ignorance and super
stition lost their domineering influ-
ence over the minds Of men. Liberty
lit her torch and led the nations out
from intellectual and physical slavery.
Industery kindled his forge fires and
Invention harnessed the great forces
of electricity and steam and set the
wheels of progress in motion. Since
then knowledge has increased until
the students of today possess the
ability to confound the wiseSt men of
former times, if those hoary sages
should chance to invade the modern
class rooms.
G reat universities are founded and
snlended libraries are maintained in
order that men may be Adequately in
structed in some one branch or special
field of medicine, and the same is
true with reference to law, the minis
try and other learned professions,
And yet there are some doctors
who are bigoted enough to believe, or
profess to believe, that their single
Uranium, that can almost be contain
ed in peck measure, holds know
ledge of the science of medicine from
Alpha to Omegal
The German-AmericAn Staff Of
Physicians and Surgeons, which will
begin work in Chanute June 9TH,
was organized upon broad proposition
that every member should be speci-
alist. educated and trained in the par
ticular branch of the healing art to
which he devoted his exclusive
attention.
The wisdom Of this policy has been
amply demonstrated by unvarying
success that has attended the work Of
the staff wherever it has been.
The German-American Staff has
taken step far in advance of all
other medical organizations, having
included in its membership, represent
tives of the four great schools OF med
icine. the Allopathic, Homoepat hic
Eclective and Independent. 1t is thus
enabled to bring within reach of the
afflicted the best that is offered by each
of these great schools for every member
of the staff is equally interested in
bringing about cure.
Another important departure inaug-
urated by this staff is the maintenance
of department presided over by an ex-
amining specialist, who devotes his en-
tire time to the diagnosis OF disease: He |
is a man whose years Of training has |
perfected him in the correct reading |
of disease symptoms, and the test of |
his high attainment in this line Is
that he will describe your aches and |
pains and tell you just how you feel
without asking you single question.
There is nothing mysterious or mir
aculous abont it. but he Is enabled to
locate the patients trouble because Of |
his wide experience, his exhaustive
examination and the further fact |
that he is assisted. when necessary,
by the X ray the most powerful mi-
croscope, and all other late appliances
which the up TO date specialist calls
TO his aid.
The Greman-Amerlcan STAFF Of Spe-