The evening times., 1898-05-17
DIR. YANDELL.
A Fine Portrait of q Fine O1d-Fash-
toned Physician and Surgeon.

{From the Louisville Courier-Journai.)
DR.. David Wendell Yandell was laid TO
res, in Cave Hill Cemetery yesterday af-
ternoon by those who loved him: but he
leaves behind him a memory which will
long survive the day during which he
lived and labored.
He was easily kentucky's greatest man
IN the medical profession. 1t was not
alone that he had reached the first
achievements and the highest honors of
,ha, profession; that In London and in
Edinburgh hardly less than in the schools
of his own country. ne was known and re-
spected; that as a military surgeon during
a great war he was unsurpassed, ana
though still pre-emHent a surgeon,
that he was hardly less eminent both as
writer and as practitioner during the
thirty years of peace that followed that
war: the favorite student of Gross IN the
meridian of his powers. and CROSS stan
and standby in his later years. These
things were indeed titles TO a name and
fame TO the name and fame of the most
ambitious. But apart from them, at once
beside and above them, DR.. 1andell pos
sessed personality and character so
impressive and pervasive as 90 single him
out from the mass even OF men distin-
guished for genius and learning; and
wherever he appeared his was at once
marked presence.
He was a singularly handsome and
graceful man, and as unconscious ana
gracious as he was handsome and grace
full. According TO the ordinary standards,
il is not easy to conceive so many-sided
a personality In any man who had attain
ed such recognition in any learned profes-
sion. To the accomplishments of the man
of fashion he united the talents of the
man of the world. and-after the lecture
room and the dissecting table-was equal
" at home on the field of battle. or about
a dinner table or a camp fire, or among
the rough elements which make up the
neither life of cities, and which fringe the
borders s,of Is civilization on the frontier.
whittier his love of out-of doors sport
frequently carried him. for he was an ur-
doubling and unfia sging hunter of all
game from the homely quail to the griz-
ely bear himself.
No man made so good an after-dinner
speech as he. No man told better sto-
~. But his devotion to his profession was
as a second nature. and his skill seemed
a kind of second sight The very touch
of his hand carried with II kind of
magic. He sprang from a race of sur
geons and grasped the mysteries of the
surgeons art by an instinct that never
failed in its aim. He had a strong, ar
dent nature. He loved and he enjoyed
and, while the occasion lasted, he hated
There was nothing neutral about him.
Frank, almost brusque. as friend un-
tiring as an enemy, he succeeded in all his
battles, and sometimes they were battles
indeed; but he was easy of approach. and
not implacable. and. the fight over. there
was his hand. open and generous, as
ready to give as IL had been to strike
During fifty years DR.. Yandell was the
intimate of most of the famous men of his
own country and Of many of the famous
men of the world. He was often abroad
and always a welcome guest in the En-
ropean capitals. where his distinguished
bearing. no less than his extraordinary
charm even more than his fame as a
surgeon made him a welcome guest in all
companies Here in Kentucky he stooo
without peer, and he goes to Join his
colleagues. Gross and Flint and Sims
who preceded him to the grave. one of
the kings, and the last of the kings. of
that realm, now no more. which in their
day was not split up into isolated and in
dependent principalities. but which en-
braced the whole length and breadth of
the medical circumference and practice
and was as tyrannous in its limi "a tons
and az jealous of its prerogatives even
as the divine right of kings.
The beautiful inscription which Dr. Yam
dell placed upon the sacred urn contain
ing the ashes of DIR. Gross might be fit-
truth His memory shall exhort and his
example shall encourage and persuade
those who come after him to emulate
deeds which. great in themselves. were
crowned by the miik-white flower of a
stainless life.''
, With the death of DIR. Yandell the old
order Of great doctors passes away. leay-
ing the medical profession not merely in
new hands. but to new conditions. to
which the world is adjusting itself.
Times Charge.
From the Chicago Post.)
- When We are young and trusting said the
matron, thoughtfully, I'VE regard readiness to
believe every protestation and excuse Of man as
nothing less than sublime faith"
"Isn't it?" asked the maid, anxiously
"And when are older and have been mar
ried few years" continued the matron, ig-
noring the question:, Eve regard it as simple
foolishness.s Among tife changes that Time makes
none stand out more prominently than that -
1 have poems ai sufferer from chronic
diarrhoea ever since the war and have
used all kinds sUf medicines for II. At
last found one remedy that has been a
success as ascuFe. and that is Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholesa and Diarrhoea Rem