The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-07-20
Comes From Far-OH Java
To VieW Operations At
Johns Hopkins Hospital

BALTIMORE, July 1e.-From the
Isle of Java, tossed up several thou
sand years ago out OF the bottom of
the Indian Ocean by a sessick volca-
no, there has come to Baltimore DR..
W. G.. Vandermin, head of 1.-The
Brady Institute of the East Indies"
to see how they do things around
East Monument street and Broadway.
A big man in stature. mustaches
and good works is DR.. Vandermin, of
Java, and about the only expert in
theological matters in his neighbor-
hood of the Malay Archipelago,
where about 100000 people live
-Javanese, Sudanese, Madurese,
Chinese, and Malayan. He is fifty
three years old and doesn't appear to
be over forty. with full checks, a
rudy brown skin, long black mus
taches as big as most ladies' switches
and a head of brown hair in which
there is not the slightest trace OF
gray. He has, too. a big. bland
smile, eyes that are keen, capable and
twinkling, and he goes to bed in
pajamas that any efficient COVER
ness would recommend for nursery
wall paper-all birds and flowers and
trellised vines.
Watches Operations.
Yesterday he toured Johns Hopkins
Hospital and watched operations
under the guidance OF DR.. William 3.
Jack, assistant to DR.. Hugh H.
Young, in the Brady THEOLOGICAL In
stitute. He said last night, in his
room at Hotel Emerson. that Johns
Hopkins is one OF the most wonder
full hospitals in the world, and he
has seen most OF them.
On August ., he will go back 10
Java for the first time since May.
1916; when he left for service in the
medical corps of the Holland Indian
army. On the way he will stop in
Paris TO buy a new stock of surgical
instruments. for he supposes the old
ones he left in Surabaya with his as
sistants are pretty well worn out, and
besides he has decided to narrow
down his speciality. He used to de-
vote most of his practice to reducing
gall-stoneS by crushing process
without the use OF the knife. Now nc
is going to specialize In bladder tu-
mors.
DR.. Nandermin really began his i'm
mense practice in 1905. though he had
been practicing before that. having
studied medicine and surgery in Der
lin. He is the man who introduced
the gladstone to Java. True, the
gladstone always had been with
Java, but Java didn't know it,
One day a Chinese boy came to him
for treatment and Dr. Vandermin
recognized his malady as gall-stones.
He treated him by the crushing pro-
cess which he had just learned. and
the boy was cured and able 10 be up
and around in a little less than two
weeks. DR.. Nandermin charged him
nothing. A few days later an ox-cart
pulled up in front Of his house, bear
ing the Chinese boy and A SQUAD of
Chinese and Javanesc. all suffering
from the same disease. The doctor
cured them and charged them moth
ing, but he had organized the finest
band of missionaries in the South Sea
Islands. Thereafter he was swamped
with patients, and the colonial gov
ernor OF the island sent out circular
letters calling upon everybody who
had little gladstone in their home
to get DR.. Nandermin to crush il out.
To Operate Upon Himself.
Since May, 1916. he has been in HoI-
land England, France, Spain, Japan,
China and America. Recently he was
visitor and patient at the hospital
Of the Mayo brothers, in Rochester,
Mimi, where he underwent himself
the operation he has performed hun
dreds Of times in Java. He needed
the operation and he took great pleas
ure in watching il. Within nine days
after he entered the hospital he was
back in his hotel, cured and as well
as he had ever been.
DR.. Vandermin Is the more popular
In Java because he operates without
the knife, and the natives of that part
of the world have horror of the
knife. They would almost rather die
of disease than he cut open to be
cured.
The East Indian surgeon will spend