The sun., 1915-05-30

OSTED upon IN" ucSKS OF TWO
famous American surgeons in
small Northwestern town may
be seen the following quota
"paye something the world wants.
and though you dwell IN the midst
~ forest II will wear beaten path
10 your door
Twenty-five years ago these sur
,.ons were country doctors--sons Of
country doctor. To-day the beaten
na,h has been made To their door.
The hospital in which they performed
,bsir first operation has grown from
A r,dely eNtemporized affair into what
has been called the most remarkable
surgical clinic on this continent. To
the little town in which IT is situated
Thousands Of persons travel yearly
sor relief. Such has been the rise Of
prs. william J. and Charles III. Mayo
of Rochester Mimi, who. as the Rev.
Newell Dwight Hills has said, made
Minnesota the State in which the
Nayo brothers live"
The world. in wearing n beaten path
10 their door. rewarded them with
fafne anu NGdlNDs i'ai Ntdi
they have been setting aside n large
mart of their income toward the es-
tablishment of an endowment fund
and now comes the announcement
that the Mayo Foundation of Roches-
ter, comprising the physical plant.
equipment and staff at Rochester. has
made an arrangement whereby the
University OF Minnesota comes into
absolute possession Of $2.000.000 or
more and an equipment for medical
research said to excel any other in the
world. The Arrangement really means
an affillation of the Mayo Clinic with
the University of Minnesota and pro-
vides for an exchange of students and
workers. Besides the Mayo brothers
the others mentioned in the founda-
ton are Drs. Henry $. Plummer, Ed
ward Starr Judd and Donald c. Bal
four all Of Rochester.
There annually so to Rochester
more than 5000 surgeons who wish to
study the methods of the Mayo
brothers. There are also constantly
at Rochester young scientists from
universities all over the world who
have gone there to do research work.
Among them at present are a German
baroness from "A Munich university, a
young Italian from the University Of
Genoa, a Bohemian from the univer-
sty at Prague and a Scotchman (. ON
The University of Edinburgh.
To appreciate the work carried on
here for the advancement of medical
science It is necessary to know somU =
thing OF the Mayo brothers themselves
and their father, for it was he who
founded and partially developed what
has since grown into the Mayo Clinic.
There is nothing more striking in the
annals Of the profession than the story
Of these three country doctors.
Dr. W. W. Mayo. the father. who
died in his ninetieth year, was IA New
Englander and lived in New York
when he was a boy. In 1Si5 he left
New York TO make home in what
was then considered TO be out West
He went ~ Buffalo and nine years
later to Indiana and there set up the
practice of medicine. There We're nc
large institutions In those days to look
10 for advice. The elder Mayo was
'sN'' "hN eeAhNu 'if
knowledge by experience.
In 1862 he was awarded a diploma
which constituted him a full fedge6
member Of the medical profession
For fifteen years he was a country
Doctor laboring among the people OF
thr. countryside, content for the tim,
Wits the reward they were able tC
bring him, Finally, in the early SOS
ne moved to the town of Rochester
At the same time taking farm on the
outskirts of the village. where hi.
sons. William J. and Charles H.. were
born and grew TO young manhood
They attended public school. but die
not complete their high school course
They went to work instead.
Both found employment In drut
stores and there they Learned
pharmacy. For them 1t was {
natural step from the practice o
pharmacy 20 the practice Of medicin,
and both resolved to become surgeons
For this purpose they left home 70
school. William j. took the full cOurs'
IN the medical department of the Uni
Yersity of Michigan at Ann Arbor
while Charles II. attended the Chicag