The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-21
25
 YEARS PRACTICE FULL OF EVENTS
Dr. Herman Duesing Rounds Out Quarter Century of
 Professional Activities.
LIFE IN WEST RICH
 WITH EXPERIENCES
Comes of Noted Ancestry
 Great Grandfather Ma poleon's Confidant.


 The completion of 25 years of ac- tivitS>in the medical profession, a ca reer fraught with more adventure
 than falls to the lot of the average practitioner, will be observed tomor- row by one of Bridgeport's best known professional. men, Dr. Herman Dues ing. While most of Dr. Duesing's pro- fessional activities have been in
 Bridgeport, and vicinity. he spent four
 busy years in the west, and it was
 during this period that most of the
 outstanding events of his career took
 place.
 From the far west, from across the
 sea where he has many distinguished
 relatives and friends, and from many
 homes in Bridgeport the physician has
 received messages of felicitatfon on
 the approach of his silver anniversary
 in the medical world. -.C- .- On July 22, 1891. pr. Duesing re-
 ceived from the Royal Bavarian Ur-
 iversity of Wurzberg the title of doc
 tor of medicine. The following Feb
 ruary, he received from the govern
 ment his license to. practice. After kthree months of professional activities in Germany, the love of adventure seized the youth, and he set out for America. He arrived in Bridgeport on Thanksgiving day. 1892. and with the exception of four years spent in
 Nevada, he has lived in Bridgeport since then. Dr. Duesing Twas the third oldest German born physician to come to Bridgeport. The oldest Bridgeporters recall readily the personality of Dr. Ohnesorg who died after many years of practice, in 1888. Dr. Konrad Clemens, now widely known here, was the second German practitioner.
 Dr.. Duesing became to many fam ilies> not only physician, but faithful friehd and counsellor. especially among the newcomers to Bridgeport, in the East Side, where his intimate knowledge of humanity brought him into close touch with the hopes and ambitions of the aliens.
 /In 1909 pr. Duesing suffered from chronic malaria. 'He decided that a
 change of atmosphere was imperative, and he removed to Nevada. He promptly took the examinations of that state, and entered into the prac-
 tice of his profession. Soon he was
 made the health officer. of Humboldt
 county, Nevada, territory of 400 square miles, with population of
 only 500 of whom 40 were Indians. Dr. Duesing is probably the only
 American doctor who has ever treat ed American Indians under contract
 with the government, his position as health officer of the county having carried with it the duty of rninistering to the ailments of the redskins. In this rough, rugged territory of Hum
 boldt county, Dr. Duesing was brought into close contact with the primitive
 aborigines, with the cowboys and the settlers who he regards as the real Americans, the backbone of the American nation. 1 While practising in Paradise Valley, as the county Is described, pr. Duesing came into contact with the Rocky
 Mountain spotted fever. a scourge
 which he found to be the same as the
 spotted typhus fever of Russia, and all 1 most identical with the plague that
 recently swept war torn Serbia claim | ing a death toll of 100000.
 pr. Duesing attended "A distinct cases Of the fever in his county. The disease is wholly unknown here, be- ing confined to the nine intermoun- tain states bounded blythe Sierras and ] the Rockies. His activities in this scourge were so valuable that the Uni ted States government obtained re- ports from him on the disease, and
 his articles on it, describing the symp- toms and treatments, are published in | tle official medical records of 1912.
 The fever is traced to the bites of in- fected wood ticks. It is highly dan
 gerous, the mortality being about 10 per cent.
 climber while in Nevada. He was the first white man to scale the heights of Mt Santa Rosa. the crowning peak of