The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-09
TWO MINNESOTA INSTITUTIONS

case is diagnosed, and diagnosis at
4 the Mayo Clinic comes more nearly
approaching perfection probably than
| anywhere else in the world.
Operations. of Importance, are per-
formed at st. Mary's hospital, neary
| a mile away.
| The Clinic or Medical Building con-
| tains the business Offices, the consult
! ing rooms Tor the many Doctors, the
library the pharmacy the pathological
department. experimenting laborator-
| les. reading rooms. assembly room
| where the stan OF about $50 physic-
ians have frequent meetings, editorial
| rooms. art rooms machine shop where
delicate instruments are made thirty
| four rooms devoted to X-ray work,
and rooms and wings devoted 10 other
| things ] don't know much about In
all there are some 200 rooms besides
the large waiting room and the many
ample corridors. Believe me, it's
1 some plant.
They haye wonderful system here
for handing business. Suppose you
have, or think you have, something
/ the matter with you that you want the
Mayo organization to look into. The
| first thing you do after reaching Roch-
ester Is TO 20 around To the Clinic
building and register. The register
clerk viii assign you to one of several
desks which handles the kind of cases
you represent yours to be. A polite
girl. of wonderful ability in her line
OF remembering and handling people.
will take your card. give you your in
structions and show you seat in the
waiting room, or tell you TO come back
the next day.
In time. perhaps in a day or two.
perhaps later. this girl Will show you
into a doctors Office. This doctor will
give you a pretty thoro examination.
He will probably direct you to other
departments where you will have
made various tests such as urine,
blood and stomach and an X-ray pic
ture taken. The next day this doctor
will have all this information as
sembled and will go over your ease
again with the head OF his depart
ment- These doctors may call in one
of the chief surgeons for final consul
tation- Then they viii tell you what
they find and think. If they find you
need an operation they viii tell you
so. and you can arrange for il here or
not as you wish If they ind you
haven't got what you thought you had
they will tell you so frankly And /
am told thnt great many people
come here with only imaginary
by a frank diagnosis and some come
back or 20 elsewhere ssiE seeking a
cure for sppe<hins they haven't got.
r. Many people 70 thru the Mayo Gin
ic in n year. How many don't know.
One day was there e6o people regis
| tered One day the week before over
500 registered. That day 500 had been
registered and were still waiting their
| turn TO see the Doctors for the first
time.
Several thousand people are in
Rochester all the time waiting for eX-
aminations. waiting fer medical atten-
tion or operations or convalescing af-
| ter operations. There are many ho-
tells and boarding houses here and
I they are all full The rich do not mo-
nopolize the institution. You see a
great many patients who plainly
come from the humble walks of life.
You marvel at the crowds around the
/ Clinic One day ! saw fully 500 peo-
| pie in the great waiting room down
stairs. Fully a hundred We're in the
corridor Leading TO the eye and ear
| clinics up stairs and another hundred
in line waiting for X-ray pictures, and
many more waiting in another de-
! partment. wing on the side. Every
! consulting room had patients receiv-
ing attention and every corridor lead
| ing TO these rooms filled with people
waiting their turn.
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| The Mayo Clinic has three-fold
| purpose nicely balanced. First to
| give professional service. medical and
surgical. TO those who require il. Sec
ond, thru a wonderful system of in
vestisation and study of cases and a
most thoro pathological research TO
Il A.x nsW and knnEladca nf
disease and its cure. Third to give
| this knowledge acquired OF medicine
! and surgery to the world thru stu
| dents and teachers and visiting mem
bers of the profession.
have spoken of the crowds who
70 there TO consult the Doctors. That
| is the easy part to see.
Up stairs the pathological depart
ment may be found if you have reason
| to look for il. Many rooms are occu-
pied and hundred people are at work
| in this department. In many Wen
equipped laboratories experiments and
| Investigations are going on. great
collection of material for study is at
hand. A wide range OF investigation
is covered with wonderful results.
Near by editors and artists gather
| the facts and make the Illustrations
for medical books and journals.
Many student doctors are here. a
close connection exists between the
Mayo Clinic and the Minnesota Uni
versity The Mayos are Just now en-
aeavoring to give to the University a
foundation of $l.500.oo0 to perpetuate
| this work.
Physicians and surgeons come here
from all the world TO study and to
take advantage OF the great fund of
professional knowledge gathered and
| Developed by this Institution.
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suggested 10 the head of one OF