The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-01-03
OFFICE HOURS

OFFICE HOURS:
9to IL a. m, and 2 to 8. and to 9p. IN.
Patients admitted at any time, night or day.
No incurable contagious diseases received
Cases of sudden illness or accident received and
given prompt and skillful medical or surgical
treatment.
An operatinp room fitted with all the require
ments of aseptic surgery-hot and cold water
antiseptc solutions and surgical dressing con-
Stantly at hand.
A surgical ward with all modern conveniences
trained nurses, constant medical attention. Every
thing conducted on strictly scientific principles.
TERMS....
Hospital Fee, $1O to $50
according to nature of case)
uosn;ta, Services Ward 81 per day
H"sP""i Private Room 500 per day
Patients admitted under care of other physi'
clans will only be charged Hospital Services.
SPECIAL WORK.
While I am prepared to do surgery of any dis
criptiOn from an ingrowing toe nail to Lapora-
tony or an appendicitis, my special work will be
Surgical Diseases of women, such as Curettage
of the Womb or Cervix, operations for injuries
to CerviX or Perlneum, Rectocele or CyStocee,
HemorrhoidS FiStulae, and all those simple
plastic operations which if properly performed
restore those chronic and maybe bedrdden inva-
lids, dragging out a miserable existence, to
healthful and useful womanhood; also the
special treatment of those pelvic diseases. of
women which can be cured without operation.
During the past few years 1t mas been TAD
with surgeons and gynecol0gists to operate
for every disease OF the womb or overles, real or
fancied, and many have We'd with one an other
to see who would perform the greatest number OF
successful operations. Our medical literature
has teemed with reports OF successful surgical
operation in which the patient died on the table
OF soon after the operation while the courage
and daring skill of the operator were highly
Landed and to crafty this inhuman ambition many
a woman has subjected herself to a needless and
cruel surgical operation, which has destroyed her
womanhood and left her a living nonentity until
the question has naturally arisen.
Who possessed this laubable courage? The
surgeon or the patient who stretched herself on
his table and took her chances of life or death
under his knife. At any rate there has been
gyneOlogistS both III this country and Europe
are advocating conservatism in this matter and
are using safer and surer but slower methods OF
trea tment until it has become Il recognized fact
that the vast majority of these eases can be cured
by proper medical and local treatment II the
cases are seen in season: In fact one of the re;
cent contribution to medical literature is entitled
"Medcal Gynecology."
One great trouble is that many women are toe
apt to allow feelings of delicacy or shame to pre-
vent their disclosing to a physician many COM
plants peculiar to their sex until they nave as
Sumed malignant and perhaps incurable form
This is false nsodesty. However commendable
modest reserve may be in every day life, its STRIFE,
observance in physicians private office is often
attended by most serious consequences ana many
poor woman has dragged out a miserable exist
ence and at last sank under a painful and loath-
some disease that might have been prevented by
timely treatment.
In the past people have always been looking
for curative medicine, some combination of drugs
to pour into the stomach like Stops into swil
tub but as people become better educated and
more advanced they have caught the spirit OF the
times and appreciate the fact that doctor is
often better to prevent serious diseases than he
is to cure them ! believe it is the duty of every
physician to inculcate i'll the minds of his patients
the principles of preventive medicine.
In the next issue of The Journal will call the
attention of women, both old and young, married
and single, to certain conditions and symptoms
that lead, if neglected, to serious and sometimes
incurabIe troubles.
DIR. PRINCE f. LUCE,
4w51 Belfast, Me-