The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-06-13
PHYSICIAN
WRITES OF TRIP EAST
N. Il. Winnard and Son Norton Now
in ChicagO.-Remarks on Ex-
tensiye Preparations Being
Made For War i'm Mid
die West.
Chicago, H., June 7th, 1918.


To The Gazette Times:
Before leaving home | believe l
promised to write you a letter tell
ing of my wanderings. The past three
weeks have been so full of events |
have hardly had time to write.
| left Heppner on May II with my
son Norton as chaperon. After 12-
hours rest at Dad" Maddock's hotel
at Arlington, we were ON our way to
Rochester, Mimi, via Spokane. From
Spokane to st. Paul we took the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul. This is
the newest and best of the transcon-
tinental lines. Besides dining car
service they stop every three of four
hours for lunch at the R. R. lunch
counter where good food can be had
at reasonable price. The scenery
through the mountains is beautiful.
There are numerous high bridges and
trestles and many tunnels. 1t GER
tainly took some good engineering to
build road through so rough a
country.
The morning we should have ar
rived in St. Paul there was train
wreck just ahead so we missed con-
nections at St. Paul. We spent the
day seeing the Twin Cities and they
are we'll worth seeing with their
beautiful lakes and falls and other
attractions. We visited Ft. Smelling,
situated on the banks of the Missis-
sippi just below Minneapolis. We
saw some troops drilling. They could
not have been there very long for our
Heppner Home Guard could have
made them ashamed of themselves.
Two miles below Ft. Smelling are
the Minnehaha Falls and the big gov
dam across the Mississippi,
and the Soldiers Home Norton made
some good pictures of these places.
We reached Rochester that night we'll
pleased with our trip.
The next day we were at the Mayo
Hospital at 8.a. M, ready to see how
the Rochester M. DIS "cut up" No
one except doctors are allowed to see
the operations so l had to do bit of
to get Norton by, but
we made it all 0. K. and saw tbout
thirty operations that day. Ther,
are six operating rooms in the main
hospital, then there are several small
operating rooms in the other hospi-
,als. More than one hundred doc
ors are employed. While we were
here patients were arriving at the
ate of 200 per day.
They have specialists in every
branch of medicine.
We spent several days there which
we're very interesting and profitable.
they handled about $4,000 patients
asst year. Many come hundreds of
niles when they could be cared for
ust as we'll by their home physician.
n fact nearly all the operations per-
ormed while we were there have
'een done in our Heppner sanator-
um with just as good success as the
lagos. | hope will not be accused
# boasting in saying this. There are
ONE complicated cases that should
% to specialists like the Mayos, but
5 cases out of 100 can be handled
ust as we'll at home.
After a short visit at White Wa
er, Wis, we reached Chicago May
3rd.' This great city is as busy,
irty and noisy as ever. While here,
have been taking special courses
nd attending clinics of the various
ospitals. At the Cook county hospi-
Al there are 200 beds. They han
lie $4,000 patients year. There l
aw everything from leprosy to in
rowing toe nail.
Everywhere one goes he sees SOL
iers and sailors, on the trains, at
le hospitals, in the medical colleges.
hey have taken over the technical
apartments of the public schools.
he army doctors are taking special
purses in various branches of the
edical schools.
Five thousand navy boys from the
reat Lakes Training station were
ut on parade last Wednesday. The
lctories Of Chicago have been large
converted into munitions factories.
is hard to realize the extent of the
operations that Uncle Sam is max
lg to get ready for the titantic strug-
le that is yet to come.
Next week is the meeting of the
merican Medical Society here in
hicago. They are expecting five or
x thousand doctors at the meeting,
hich will have department devot-
especially to army surgery.
There is lots more l would like to
III but fear this is too long for you