Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-02-17
DIR. III. G.. MCCALL.
Homeopathic Physician and
Surgeon, Mexico. Mo.

From no professional men do we
expect or exact so many of the cardi-
nal virtues as from our physician. If
our clergyman is austere, we imagine
that his mind is absorbed by the con-
temptation of things beyond our ken;
il our lawyer Ia brusqus and Grabbed,
it is the prerogative of genius; but in
our doctor We expect the wisdom of
Solomon, the gentIessness of the dove
and a sympathy as extensive as the
human ills. The subject of our
sketch, DIR. II. O. McFail, in a large
measure fills all those requirements,
and to the hundreds of people of this
section VINO have availed themselves
of his services he is an ideal doctor.
DIR. McFall is a native of Ohio, but re-
ceived his education at Platteville
College, Wisconsin, his parents hav-
ing moved to that state. He then
went west and by careful speculation
accumulated a snug fortune, but
through the failures of parties form
erly occupying positions of wealth,
DR.. McFalI, in common with so many
of our more energetic men who have
maintained a proud struggle for
wealth, found his gains swept away,
as it were, in an instant. He again
took up the practice of medicine and
began it's study in the office of the
celebrated homeopathic female
physician, DR.. George M. Guernsey,
of New York, and while there acted
as assistant to DIR. Guernsey in the
medical and surgical diseases of
women. DR.. Guernsey has a world
wide reputation and under his tuition
DR.. McFall reaped advantages in
actual practice that no college can
furnish The doctor thsn attended a
course of lectures at Cleveland, Ohio,
and afterward private course on the
medical and surgical treatment OF
diseases of women by DR.. r. Ludlam,
a practitioner who has been for many
years professor of the Hahneman
Medical College, Chicago. DR.. Nc
Fall also attended lectures in st.
Louis and Is graduate of two homeo-
pathic medical colleges. Previous to
coming to Mexico in 1888, the doctor
had practiced in Carroll'on, Ill and
| his reputation there is best described
| in the followi extract from the local
paper, the Patriot: "Dr. McFall came
To Carrollton about ten years ago,
since which time, although total
stranger and the only homeopathic
physician in the county, he has built
up large practice. Very few
physicians after scores of years OF
labor can boast of as lucrative a
| practice as DIR. McFall has left his
successor. The doctor is the persona
fication OF industry and indomitable
| will and has scored remarkable sue
cess in Greene county"
1 The doctor does general practice,
! but il it be one branch of the profess
sion in which he excels, it is that of the
treatment of diseases of women, in
/ which b 70 has been most successful, due
no doubt in great measure to the years
/ of study which he has devoted To this
branch; while his unhounded success
in fever and pneumonia cases is ad
ditional evidence of his skill, expert
ence and study. The doctor has moi
lost one case in five hundred. Conf
dence in your physician is half ths
! care Of the ills to which the human
flesh is heir, and Judging DR.. McFal
by his large and increasing practice
the faith reposed in him by our citi'
gems lie a matter of which he shoult
feel justly proud.
T. w. Carter, owner of the Ring
House, is up from st. Louis arranging
, to begin his improvements, which vii
be substantial and extensive.