The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-11-04

ers See Us.
To come back to Berea after ten
years absence, is like coming to a
town made over so thoroughly that
it is hardly recognizable.
The long lines of cement walks re-
placing the old clay paths and cinder
walks, and the well painted and re-
paired houses of good modern style
in place of the shacks that were go
prevalent in the old days are a pleas
ant sight to one who remembers
Berea with an affection learned during
years Of the happiest period of his
life spent here and who acquired the
best little woman in the world for
his wife as a gift from the dear old
town. To see the campus filling up
with fine large buildings of beautiful
design and good materials, was an
other thing TO fill him with gladness.
A large corps OF well trained, devot-
ed Christian men and women who,
altho he was personal stranger,
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nus made MIN feel that he was well
come, and gave him every courtesy in
their power, also made an old grad
feel very good.
OF course being a physician l ma
turally looked up the physicians of
the town and college. Drs, Cornelius,
and Davis made me very welcome and
greeted me as an old friends, hav-
ing once practiced under DIR. Cornelius
when an undergraduate and all in
vited me with true Kentucky warmth
and courtesy to see and assist in
such cases as they thought would he
interested in.
Wandering down to the hospital /
found DR.. Cowley from whom l receiv
ed the same courteous treatment the
other physicians had accorded me
spent many profitable hours with
him looking over the students who
come there principally for eye, ear.
nose and throat troubles; in which
diseases he has specialized.
| was glad to observe a good feel
ing prevailing among the physicians
of the place for sad to say that is not
always true among doctors, in small
places especially. All of them are
working here for the greatest good
of all the people.
| feel like congratulating the people
Of this vicinity on the excellent hos
pital the college has so generously
thrown open to the students and gen
eral public. All doctors are made to
feel welcome in bringing their patients
there, the price charged being only
nominal to the students and to all less
than half the phrice charged in large
hospitals, where one does not receive
the personal care that one does in a
hospital of this size.
The nurses are kind and good, the
head nurse, Miss Click, a girl of this
neigkborhood, who has received an
excellent training is very skillful and
Is now devoting her life to training
girls in her noble profession.
My own little girl of five, taking
sick few days after my arrival, l
took her TO the hospital as soon as a
diagnosis of typhoid was made. My
daily visits gave me a good opportun-
ity to see the kind and skillful way
in which the hospital staff of nurses
carried out their duties.
During my stay several important
major operations were performed by
the doctors of the town and college.
all OF them successful in preserving
the lives of the patients and putting
them on the road to health, The oper-
ating room, by the way, is one that
q larger town might we'll be proud
OF; 1t gives such a good place to do
an operation in with no bad results
following. The people ought never
to consent to be operated on at home
II they can possibly get to the hospital
One can not afford to be operated ON
or be sick at home, when he can so
cheaply and easily avail himself of tn
shlIiui care, where people are skilled
in watching for trouble and where all
materials and doctors are near at hand
in case of an emergency.
OF all the great many things Pres.
Frost has obtained for Bcrea, the
hospital In my mind is one of the
greatest in its usefulness to the well
fare OF the students and public. as
all are welcome, be they students or
citizens
DR.. Charles Webster Gould.