Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-03-02
LEAVES ALMA.
DR.. E. S. Pettyjohn 10 Leave Alma and
Travel in EurOle for One Year.

III reRatd 90 DR.. .Pettyjohn leaving
\ ina Te would state that owing 10 the
effect on the doctor : health of exhaust.
ing, steady and continuous work AT
the sauitarum for the past seven years.
and eighteen years III the practice of
medicine, Ohe anniversary OF which the
doctor celebrated on February 22nd
by IA dinner 70 The clergy man ot the VII
lage and To his medical friends with no
vacation during TINS period, he has de
clded TO relLqul-h his tease OF the luStl-
tuition, and his medical practice, Tor a
year rest, travel and study abroad He
will retain his interest IN the sanitarlum
as member of the board of directors and
vice president of the company.
During the doctors medical manage
rIent of the institution IN these past
years, having placed IT on highly
| scientific and medical basis both 10 the
satisfaction of the profession and the
public, the reputation and pOtrOnage Of
| the institution has gradually and CON
stantly increased until IL Is now consid-
cred 1.-The foremost ethical, medical in
stitution in this country, and DR.. Pet
| ty John the first sanltarium physician III
America Under the doctors direc-
tion a thoroughly scientific and com
plete system of hydrotherapeutics has
| been developed and maintained with
regular sets of treatments for gastric
| neurasthenia, liver troubles, rheumatism,
nervous disease, tonic and nutritive ef.
| fects A training school has been es-
| tablished and these applications are
made by experienced nurses under the
physicians direction. The institution
| has so won the confidence of the profes.
sion that nearly every patient is re.
| ferred 10 its care by the home physician,
diagnosis is considered and whose inter
ests are conserved.
| During his stay abroad the doctor will
continue the study of sanitarium meth
ods at Matlack Banks IN England, Nau-
helm and Carlsbad, and also as com
missioner 10 visit the hospitals of the in
sane in Germany, Austria and France" F"
appointed 10y the governor of the state
| Of Michigan. The doctor will attend
the thirteenth international medical
congress in Paris, being member Of
this organization, where he will present
paper before the section of Internal
| Pathology The doctor intends study
ing in Berlin, Paris and Vienna follow
ing the lines in which he has attained
distinction. those of Internal Medicine
and Neurology.
| During the past few years the doctor
has written, and they have been given
wide publicity through the medical
journals the following articles: Rheu-
matisln, It's Pathology and Modern
Treatment Erbs Primary Muscular At
rophy. Qllustrated); Chronic Internal
Cerebral Meningitis; Functional Gas
trio Disease and Their Treatment The
Differential Diagnosis of Neurasthenia
and Its Treatment; Constipation, Some
of Its Effects and It's Non. NJ edical Treat
ment: Sleeplessness, Its Cause and Treat.
ment Diabetas and Its Constitutional
Treatment; The Profession of Nursing
etc.
The doctor will combine the pleasure
of travel with his rest and study, and be
accompanied by his entire family. The
trip will be by the north Ireland, across
Scotland, through the east of England,
Abbottsford. Durham, York and Lon
dou, thence to Brussels and Paris Expo
sition He will go with the medical ex.
cursion, leaving June 30, the Anchor
Line, on the City of Rome. The doctor
and family will then leave the party
anc travel in Switzerland. down the
Rhine, and locate for the winter In Ber.
lin where Mrs. Pettyjohn will pursue
her musical studies and his son, Wal
lace. continue his illustrative art. The
doctor will be in Chicago during the
greater portion of May in attendance on
the Methodist General Com erence, tt
which he is a delegate His Chicago
address will be The Stewart Building
80 State.st. While it is not yet definite
} ly decided, il is the wish of the doctor I
, many medical friends that he locate il
! Chicago in consultation practice in hit
speciality.
! DR.. Petty John and family have mad'
: many warm friends in Alma during
their residence here, III church, society
: and business, and they will be great.
! missed.