Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-09-24
HIS SURGEONS EXPERTS
The Corps of Specialists Called
to the Presidents Aid.
DIR. ROSWELL PARK WIDELY KNOWN

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Fame-Dr. Rixey the President's
Own Physician-A Quick Trip to the
Operating Table.
If the president RECEIVERS, 1t will be
due in no small measure to the fact
that within comparatively a few min
utes there were gathered In the operat'
ing room of the little emergency hos
pital within the Pan-American grounds
at Buffalo a corps of the most able sur
geons in the world and to the rapidity
with which the operation upon the
president. remarkable in many re-
spects, was performed, says the New
York Journal. Mr.. Mckinley was shot
at 4:O7 D. m., and at 4:1S he lay on the
table ready for the operation.
Besides the presidents W ply
stefan, DR.. Rixey, three surgeons OF in
ternational reputation and five reputed
the best in their localities We're pres
ent. DR.. Lee of st. Louis and DR.. Myn-
ter of Buffalo were on the grounds
and reached the wounded presidents
side in ten minutes. DR.. Mann n DR..
Parmenter were at the hospital within
an hour, and DR.. Roswell Park, who
was in Niagara Falls, was borne with
marvellous speed on a Michigan Central
special train to Buffalo and within an
hour and a half was also at the operat-
ing table. DR.. N. w. Wilson, in charge
of the emergency hospital; DR.. Charles
G. Stockton of Buffalo and DIR. Eugene
Wasdin, surgeon of the marine hos
pital department: Or. Charles McBur-
ney, leading New York surgeon, and
DR.. Price of Buffalo were also in at
tendance.
DIR. Presley NJ. Rixey. brother Of Con-
gresham John Franklin RiXey of the
Eighth Virginia congressional district,
is a medical inspector in the United
States navy and physician to the presi-
dents family, accompanying President
and Mrs. Mckinley on all their jour-
neys over the country. He Is a Virgin
ian. born at Culpeper. and was appoint
ed an assistant surgeon in the navy on
Jan. 2S. 1874. In 1876 he was assigned
to the marine hospital at Philadelphia,
the next year going to the Norfolk
navy yard aad in 1873 was assigned to
special service.
Surgeon GeSeral Bates Of the navy,
who was the physician of the McKin-
leys when they moved into the White
House. was succeeded when he died in
October, 1887, by General Leonard
Wood. When General Wood left Wash
ington as colonel of the rough riders
early in 1898, the president selected as
his successor DR.. Rixey, and for three
years that officer has constantly at
tended the president and his wife.
DR.. Roswell Park is easily the fore
most of the corps of physicians attend
ing the president. He is a surgeon Of
worldwide fame and author Of Parks
System Of Surgery" a standard work.
He Is also an acknowledged expert in
cancer. He is about forty-eight years
Of age and enjoys a good practice. He
was graduated from the Rush Medical
college some twenty-five years ago and
for a time taught there what he had
learned.
Subsequently he spent much time III
European study and upon his return
earned his present reputation as a
rapid, clean and what Is profes sionally
termed a pretty operator and Is one Of
the few ambidextrous surgeons in prac-
tice. He is chief surgeon at the Buffalo
General hospital, professor of surgery
at the University of Buffalo and lives
in Buffalo.
DR.. Herman Mynter, an older man,
perhaps fifty-siX. is a Dane by birth
and famous on two continents as an
expert abdominal surgeon and special
list on appendicitis, concerning which
subject he has written a work which
is Indispensable to the profession. Re-
Gently he went to Denmark and lee
tured OF his chosen subject before the
Danish medical congress at Copenha-
gen. He was formerly surgeon at the
Sisters hospital and now operates at
the German Deaconess home at the
new German hospital.
Dr.. Matthew ID. Mann, aged fifty-six,
professor OF g%ynecology at the Uni
versity of Buffalo and g%ynecologist at
the Buffalo General hospital, has at
tanned a worldwide reputation through
his standard textbooks on gynecology.
He is a park commissioner of the city
of Buffalo. He has practiced from thir.
ty to thirty-five years in Buffalo and
Is known as an eminent abdominal sur.
geon.
DR.. John Parmenter, though not so
well known abroad. is esteemed as one
of the best and most careful operators
in New York state. He is under forty
years old and Is professor Of anatomy
at the University of Buffalo. DR.. Eu-
gene Wasdin. surgeon Of the marine
hospital department Of the United
States. stationed at Buffalo. will be re-
membered as one of the experts detail
ed to investigate yellow fever in Cuba
during the recent war. Ha is nhont
forty years I'D ind an expert sr.eoon
Of more tina local reputation. DR.. I.
w. Lee of st. Louis. who assisted In
the operation. Is medical director Of the