The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-08
KNIGHTS OF HIPPOCRATUS
Richard spillane. in Commerce and Fi-

Richard spillane. in Commerce and Fiji
 nance.
 IN Minnesota there Is a village called
 Rochester. It is unlovely spot. V Such sidewalks as it possesses are of wood. It's roads are of dirt. It's dwell ings are not pretentious. The landscape has little of charm and nothing of beauty With the exception of a park and one mammoth structure that covers what would measure two city blocks Rochester
 is, to the ordinary observer like thou- sands of other American villages of the west. That mammoth structure, however,
 is the mecca to which an average of 30,- GOO or more afflicted humans flock each year and the two modest men who con duct it have world wide fame.
 Of all the wonder stories of America there hardly is one to surpass that of the Mayo brothers. the surgeons of Rochester. They were country boys, sons of a country doctor. Rochester was their birthplace They planned to be druggists but the craving for knowledge led one to take a medical course in the University of Michigan and the other a course at the Chicago Medical college. Then they returned to Rochester and began prac- tice. A small hospital was established there, partly through their labors and in the course of time remarkable stories were told of the operations they per- formed Patients came from :5t. Paul and then from Chicago and Milwaukee and then from Cleveland, Pittsburg, New .to, f1,Axr q ayv1o from London, Paris, Berlin, St. Peters burg, Asia, Africa everywhere. The nos pital grew and grew until 1t became per haps the largest building in the state. There was only one railroad, but this sometimes brought as many as looo pa- tents in a week. Never were two men of genius more unostentatious than these brothers. Their work has been one or service Their charges have been graded according to the patients standing The rich have had to pay wen. The person of moderate income has had a bill of moderate proportions. The poor have had no bills and at times have received in- stead a gift in the name of St. Mary S l hospital.
 | Money has meant little to the Mayos. | The greatest millionaire could obtain the most luxurious of rooms in the hospital, l but no more of care or attention than
 the poorest suffertr that came to their doors.
 1 But money has come to them in thou 1 sands of dollars. tens of thousands and | hundreds of thousands and now they
 are to give it all away. the s2OO0,000 that 1 make up the profits of the great hospital.
 This s2,00o,O0O they give to found a medical department in the university of their l state.
 It Is said that 5000 surgeons a year go to Rochester to study under the Mayos
 and that young scientists from all over the world are there for research work There Is nothing revolutionary in the
 methods of the brothers. They are moi experimenters. What thsu is the secret | of their success? One who has had oppor.
 tunity to observe says 1t is that they dc | the right thing in the right way by ex' treme care and high skill in diagnosis | Their genius rests in their infinite paint
 in studying every detail of every case thai comes before them. In that alone theil
 success must be of vast benefit to thu