Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-05
THE DOCTORS MAYO,
COUNTRY SURGEONS
Together They Have Done Some of
the Great Work of the World in
Franciscan Sisters Hospital in
Minnesota.
By RAYMOND G. FULLER

II
UlAME went seeking the Mayo brothers and
i found them I'm the little Minnesota town
where they have lived since boyhood. The
Mayo brothers have never sought fame, but
only success They have won success because
success is very much like doing faithful work
and good. They have been visited with
worldwide fame because good and faithful
work will out, despite any amount OF mod
esty
Their work. as the Rev. Or. Hills has re-
marked, has made Minnesota "the State in
which the Mayos live" The railroad, having
taken cognizance OF the same fact and hay
ing noted the extraordinary number of pas
sengers bound year in and year out for the
| country town I'm which St Mary's Hospital Is
located, runs extra Pullmans back and forth
between Chicago and Rochester A we'll
beaten path, albeit railroad, has been worn
| to the door of the Mayos
The Aphorism of the Mousetrap
Above the desk Of DR.. william Mayo hangs
a card bearing in illuminated print an ap-
propriate quotation from Emerson 1t is the
gift of n former patient and reads fol-
lows: Have something that the world
wants-and though you dwell in the midst OF
the forest 1t will make a pathway to your
door The aphorism Of the mousetrap,
which has been varlousy and controvcrsially
ascrlbcd to Emerson, Elbert Hubbard and
others, may have been derived from this pas
sage, but at any rate 1t was in the mind OF
tho distinguished Professor Pozzi, OF the
French Academy Of Medicine when he
wrote. in English, after a visit to Rochester
"On the wall in William Mnyo's office hangs
one Of those many-coored notices that
usually reproduce Scripture texts and are so
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tion from Emerson, which, as I remember It,
runs, If a man preach the best sermon
write the best history, or construct the best
mousetrap, he can go and live in the woods
and the throng of visitors will wear path
TO his door A path first, and then a high
way, have thus been worn to the door of
the Mayo brothers. l counsel my French
colleagues to make, in their turn, surgical
pilgrimage"
Rochester is a mecca for wealthy and poor
who suffer from the Affections to which the
flesh is heir, and place of pilgrimage for
the physicians and surgeons not only Of this
country but of Europe and the Orient and
South America Great doctors travel to
Rochester to undergo serious operations.
Great doctors travel to Rochester to observe
the methods of the Mayo brothers and their
STAFF of specialists The 200 beds of the hos
H. g
are moved out to convalescent hotels just as
soon as their condition will allow it, an aver
age Of about Is serious operations day are
perforped. At the downtown offices in the
course of year $4,000 persons apply for
treatment, Physicians and surgeons from
the United States and foreign countries visit
the hospital in such numbers that club is |
maintained for them, and a building espe-
cialy adapted for their accommodation has !
recently been erected. The number Of these /
professional visitors reaches 5000 in year /
There are also in regular attendance at |
Rochester many scientists from universities
all over the world who have gone there to |
do research work. Only the other day the |
announcement was made that through the
generosity Of the Mayo brothers the Unver-
sity of Minnesota is to establish a part OF
its graduate medical work at Rochester for
a trial period of six years.
Why is 1t that the Mayo brothers have
been called "the two greatest
American surgeons" and Rochester "the
greatest surgical centre of the United
States? Few discoveries of new methods Of
treatment or of surgical cures for malignant
diseases emanate from st. Mary's Profess
Bonal visitors do not expect to learn prncl-
pies from their observation Of the Mayo
brothers What they do find to study and
admire is a magnificent hospital organization
and faultess surgical technique. They find
the discoveries and methods OF every great
surgeon applied at St Mary's with ultimate
sureness and accuracy, And so the Mayo
brothers and ST. Mary's Hospital and Roches-
ter are famous.
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