The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-07-19
Equipment Complete
and Modern
Treating Diseases In Ac.
cOrdance with the Latest
Approved Methods.

Q1SeaSe, ana the most complete
equipment to be found in any physi-
clans Office in this section of the
northwest" said DR.. C. w. Comp
ton to a Herald representative last
Saturday, and a glance around the
rooms that form the doctors suite,
rooms 9, Is, 16 and II, Clogg block,
was sufficient to confirm the state
ment. The great electrical ma
chimes, the air compressor, the pow
erful galvanic battery, the furnish
ings Of the operating-room, and the
general appearance of the rooms.
taken together, are inspiring of ut
most confidence.
The appliances and various ex-
pensive machines-costly in the first
place and expensive to operate
could not be gathered together and
SO carefully selected with view to
the needs of the sick and afflicted
of the community in a short time.
In the present stage, DIR. Cromp-
toms equipment represents the al
most complete development of his
ideal, and one that he formed long
ago. In building it up to its pres
SuI StdlC, Ihdly VI LuC
chases have been replaced with
later ones, and all that now is in
daily use is of the very latest and
most approved in the way Of medical
and surgical appliances. Here every
disease that can be successfully
treated at any of the city hospitals
can be equally well cared for. and in
most cases by the same methods.
And not only has the doctor and his
wife, who is his assistant in the
laboratory, the operating and the
nursing rooms, and is a graduate of
one of the best schools herself, pre-
pared to look after the immediate
needs of the suffering; they have
gone further, and made every pro-
vision necessary for the ease and
comfort of the convalescent, and for
the caller in search of relief from the
ills of suffering humanity.
From the reception room the
laboratory can be seen, and a
glance into it is assuring, almost in
viting. 1t is in reality small drug
store, or the prescription department
of very large one. Here prescrip-
tons are compounded from the
purest and freshest of drugs,
selected with care. regardless of ex-
pense, from the offerings of the best
houses. A systematic record of pre-
scriptions is kept. and if it is neces-
sary for patient to have one re-
filled it can always be done without
the trouble and expense of new
prescription. Mrs. Crompton, whose
work in this department is to be
highly commended, is a graduate of
the Ohio Institute of Pharmacy at
Columbus, Ohio, and has had several
years experience.
Merit and business principles
control all the departments of our
Office business" said DR.. Crompton,
while very modestly talking of his
practice, "and am well pleased
with the results of our efforts in all
the directions in which we have
worked. The record shows that
since January LIST we have put up in
our laboratory 1867 prescriptions
all for our own patients, you un-
derstand. Their cost? Well,
should say they will average be-
tween twenty-five and thirty cents
each. Then we established the
nurses bureau, which has been even
more of success than we antici-
pated. We now make no charge
for our services in obtaining nurses
and a great many have come to de-
pend upon us to secure nurses for
them on short notice.
This static and X-ray machine"
continued the doctor, indicating the
largest Of the machines in the con-
sulting-room. "is one of the largest
and best that I know of in the
northwest. 1t is successfully en-
ployed in making examinations, TAX
ing x-ray photographs and in the
treatment of lung diseases, skin and
cancerous troubles. I make fire.
quent use of the violet rays in cases
of alterations and similar diseases,
and also in treating neuralgia and
nerve diseases. The static machine
is invaluable for treating muscular
and nerve troubles: in this connec-
ton we also employ the high fire.
quency current, which may be made
very powerful, being the same form
of current with which wireless te-
legraphy is operated. This machine
is also made subservient in connecl
ton with the ozone generator, which
generates ozone gas used in treating
iuhS tiOuUlCS,
Ozone is great germ destroyer, and
is CAPABLE of destroying the germs in
900 times it's volume of air.
THE air compressor is operated
Dy an electric motor which also
runs the static machine. and is used
in applying remedies direct to the
nose, throat. air passages and lungs.
Examinations of the lung and heart
are made with the aid of the X-ray
photographs. II necessary The
greatest help I have in diagnosis is
this invention. which is partly my
own, and which I have named the
'X-ray stereOscope' In using It,,
two photographs are made from OPP
posite sides of the body. After
these are finished up as an ordinary
picture is finished. one Is put IN each
of the square boxes that are in line
about three feet apart In the sides
OF the box are plates of ground
glass, upon which the negatives are
fastened. A strong electric light
from behind throws the pictures on