The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-07-27

DR.. Hal Hall, who is assistant man
ager and resident physician, Is ma
tive Of the immediate territory, grad
uate Of Barnes Medical School, st.
Louis, which has been supplemented by
the Philadelphia Polytechnic, John Hop
kins, the well.known institution Of Bal
timore; also the New York Post Grad
uate. DR.. Joe Price and the German
Hospital Of Philadelphia. II long and
arduous training in the best medical
schools and with the highest class OF
practitioners known to medical science
constitute success, DR.. Cook and DR..
Hallrare both thoroughly fitted for the
positions they SO well occupy.
ESPECIAL consideration Is due those
Of our citizens, both physicians and
nurses, who take the arduous and dthi-
cult course which today Is necessary
to fit one for engaging in the medical
profession, and to whose skill and at
tention is due the marvellous cures and
surgical operations now so frequent.
Today operations are daily performed
which only a few short years ago were
unheard Of, while the mastery and
control gained over long thought fatal
diseases is so mar, Sous as to those
uninformed to seem almost like fiction.
But far from fiction Is It, by upend.
ing skill and energy coupled with ex-
haustlng experiments and the expen-
diture of fabulous sums OF money new
remedies, improved instruments, later
and more modern methods Of treat
ment are almost daily being brought
to the attention Of our practitioners.
Doubtless many Of the remedies and
also the treatments as we'll, may not
stand the test of time, but 1t is only
BY constant endeavor that progress Is
accomplished. And the end Is not yet
and it's arrival is far in the future.
Years ago the discovery Of chloroform
was supposed to settle the quest for .
reliable anasthetic, though since then
dozens Of later remedies have been dis
covered and are < constantly used.
while the same is also true Of chloro-
form. BY constant endeavor alone is
progress made, and no one can or
should criticlse the medical profession
or hospitals, for 1t is doubtless true
that as much real progress has al.
ready been accomplished and probably
more attempted than In any other yocaf$
ton or profession.
Could some good gent or fairy with
their magic wand but. Danish sickness
what a change for the better It would
be, but that we may dismiss at once
as impossible, though we are now
daily eftectlng cures and conducting
operations which only a few years, ago
were unheard Of and as so marvellous
an advance has been made In arts
and manufactures and other yocations,
let us not despair, but by constant
and increasing effort endeayor TO bring
about that nearest approach to the
millennium, freedom from pain and suf-
fering.
It Is not the intention in this brief
article to burden the reader with Q
yolumlnous account Of either the med'
ical skill OF the titioners or 70 say
but little in reference to the complete.
ness and thoroughness with which the
hospital Is furnished, {, as our limited
space win not permit. Those who
have been In attendance at the hos:
pital are loud in their praise ot the
care and atentiyeness Of the nurse 3
and the medicinal slsiII and watchtllls
ness oi Dfs Cook atId l5ail aud sll
tie numerous otlie physicians "a ~
tendance These facts are So ven
known Is 70 render comment at our
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