The Glenwood post., 1915-04-24
0r. ". ". Crook Appointed Medical
Director and Placed in Direct
Supervision Of the Baths
SANITARY METHODS EMPLOYED

lines were only partially successful, and
it is believed that this was because
they failed to interest the principal
source through which such business can
be influenced-the medical profession.
Having already done considerable in
the way of renovating the popular
priced bath houses and rendering them
more attractive to the people whose
means did not permit the use Of the
more expensive baths, the next step
determined on was to run the bath
houses more on sanitarium lines rs is
done in the successful eastern and Eu-
ropean watering places.
Past experience showed that those
patients who bathed under the diree-
tion of physician as rule derived
most benefit. While patients will not
be required to place themselves in the
care of a physician, as is now being
done at many watering places, they
will, however, be encouraged to do SO.
The local physicians, with all of whom
the plan has been discussed, have ex-
pressed willingness to cooperate in
he work. A system of bath prescrip-
tion forms is being prepared, so that
every physician in G'enwood Springs
will be able to send his patients to the
baths provided with full instructions
as to the treatment he desires admin
istered to his patient.
The medical director will maintain
fixed office hours at the stone bath
house, during which visiting health
seekers will be given information, free
of charge, as to the baths and treat
ments and what may be expected from
them. This free consultation, howevee,
will be of = purely advisory na&ass,
and patients whose cases require ned
icsl supervision will be urged to place
Themselves under the care Of any Glen
wood Springs physician.
As one of the company's officers ex-
presses it: "If you become i'll, yoa
do not go to drug store and buy your
self such medicine as you may wish to
take; you go to your doctor, and he,
being trained in such things, prescribes
for you. It's just the same about these
baths. A stranger comes here, needing
them; he knows nothing about them,
and his best advisor is physician who
knows all about them. All our Glen
wood doctors know about these springs
and our plan, in a nutshell, is to get
the bathers to insure better results
from the baths for themselves by fol-
lowing the advice of the doctors. We
have found it difficult, in the past, t.
stimulate this practice, but we believe
that we have found the solution by the
free consultation feature.
cdr. Sn,its, who mas been resident
physician for the company for . num-
Der of years, last fall resigned his con-
nection with the company in order 70
devote himself to the private practice
which he has built up in and around
Glenwood, and 80 We were compelled
to find . new physician.
, "Dr. Crook has . number Of vssy
valuable ideas on treatments, which
will be put into effect rs rapidly -
possible, and We hope to be abls 70 ~
the doctors in Coloeado, Utah 81
states farther afieA inte the Aahit e
seading their patients here for tssa1-
lneat."
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