The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-29
DR.. BOB AT ROTARY
Well known Topeka Surgeon
Tells of War and Medicine.
DR.. McCarter Reads Biography
-KinkeI Gives Sermon"


and sanitation and the things the war
has done in raising the ideals of the
medical profession formed the basis
of the talk by DR.. Robert Stewart az
the meeting of the Rotary club at the
Chamber of Commerce this noon.
In his talk Doctor Stewart stated
the history of the medical profession.
He told how II had its birth in the
priestcraft Of the ancients, was aug
mented and enlarged by the barber
surgeon. and how finally medicine
and the practice OF surgery came to
De a distinct profession.
The doctor spoke of the great
things which the modern practice OF
medicine has given to the world, The
Panama canal owes its being to the
medical professions knowledge of the
proper and effective way to combat
ana prevent the yellow fever. Typhoid
was stamped out of the army thru the
discoveries of serums in the great
laboratories of the United states. In
iact nearly every engineering feat or
organisation of the nation owes its
ne and being to the medical profess
sion in one way or another
$4,000 In tho War.
As to the record of the medical pro-
iession in the war, Doctor Stewart
declared that $4,000 physicians and
surgeons answered the call to the COL
ors-many of them even before the
United states declared war. He spoke
OF the training these men UNDERGRAD
in the camps to fit Themselves FOR T,sIS
service with the army and of the Dri-
vations and dangers they faced while
carrying on their work in the very
nav OF the machine guns of the Ger
ma mans s, ana their allies He told of how
tne Iirst recognized unit OF Americas
troops to carry the Stars and Stripes
In france was n base hospital unit.
War Sets New ideals,
Doctor Stewart declared that the
war has given to the medical profess
SION OF America a new set of ideals
and new code of ethics. Service 10
others without thought of the com.
tort or self has always been the motto
OF the profession. This is truer now
tnan 1t ever was and the thousands
OF medical men returning from the
army can be counted on to instiil the
Idea firmly into the doctors and sur
geons OF the new generation.
DR.. Robert B. Stewart was intro
duced, according 10 the custom of the
ciuo. by his biographist. DIR. w A.
McCarter.
Doctor McCarter spoke of the time
when the now prominent Topeka sur
geon came to this city as a school boy.
the son of DR.. S. G. Stewart. He told
or DR.. "Bob's" exceptional athletic ca
reer IN both Topeka high school and
In Washburn college.
Served I'm Two Wars.
Doctor Stewart according 10 bis
piographer, served in at least two of
the wars of the United States, He was
a member of Company NJ of the 22nd
Kansas volunteer infantry. He served
as private soldier. When mustered
out OF the service he entered wash
burn College Medical school from
which he was graduated in 1905. After
coure OF post graduate work in New
York City he returned to Topeka and
nm
ship with his father
When the United States declared
war on Germany and her allies. Doc
tor Bob" volunteered and was i'm
meolately commissioned a captain in
the medical corps. He was assigned
TO duty as a member of the surSicai
staff in the big base hospital at Camn
Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia He was
discharged from the service and re-
turned TO private practice in February.
ms TWO brothers, Captain James q.
stewart and Lieut.. Samuel &ewart are
still in France
Doctor Stewart was married to Miss
Lenora Stubbs December IS, 1912,
one daughter is born of the union.
Doctor McCarter closed his bio-
graphical sketch with a reading of an
original poem credited to Doctor
Stewart.
Memorial Service for Holland.
Memorial service for the late J. C.
Holland. a member of the Rotary club.
who died Wednesday, was held at the
close of the regular meeting of the
club today.
One OF the guests at the meeting
was Professor Dotterwich of WASH
burn Music school, who responded to
a call for speech with two piano Sc
lections.
The Rotary speech, a wonderful
piece Of logic, was made by John Kim
KEEL of the public utilities commission
for Kansas.