Evening star., 1924-05-24
MAYO CLINIC TREATS
$4,000 CASES A YEAR
Now Sending Out Group of Young
Surgeons. Who Are Completing
Fellowships.
BY Consolidated Press.

BY Consolidated Press.
ROCHESTER,, Mimi. May 24-The
civil war gave Rochester the Mayo fam
lily and set this typical small Minnesota
town on the way to its present un
rivaled position as the surgical CEN
ter of the world-the mecca for the
Sunday the latest of its celebrated
patients.
And within the next month the
Mayo clinic will fulfill it's newest
mission, when group of young
surgeons will complete their clinical
fellowships and scatter throughout
the country to practice their profess
sion as finally rounded out by three
years of training here.
1t is as a public institution, direct
ing research into the cause and pre-
vention of disease, training leaders
of the medical profession and giving
clinical assistance to all who. need
it, that the Mayo clinic reveals itself
in its best light to its founders, DR..
william ]. and DR.. Charles Mayo
But the whole thing started back In
the SOS when DR. w. w. Mayo, re-
Gently from England. was sent to
Rochester, as a member of the federal
surgeon generals staff. to head the
medical staff in the training camp 10
Mayo remained. His two sons grew
in the medical profession mere ana
they too, stayed.
Now $4,000 persons year go
through the Mayo clin,c' -ns atto two
Young doctors. They had commenced
in 1893 to divide their earnings. 90
per cent going into speclal Iuhu
and so per cent going to the doctors
for living expenses. IN 5saf; ~ ooo "nsn .s
Drs. Mayo decided to give it back to the
people. ~,
versity Of Minnesota, the Mayo oroth,
ers went on a salary, so that all
surplus earnings would go into en-
dowments. and the Mayo Foundation
was created This is controlled by a
board of trust ees, on which the Mayo
brothers have but two of the seven
teen votes
Found 200 Feilowships-
Under the foundation 200 feilo"-
ships have been created, with men
from all parts of the world filling
them az students Fellows must be
graduates of medical colleges ana
have had their intern ships. They
then spend from three to nve ye1rs
in intensive study and practice under
and surgical specialists connected
with the clinic
while now largely public institu-
tion. the Mayo clinic retains it's color
fuI aspects Among the hundreds
who daily pass through the institu-
tion are seen Indians in their native
reealia, a Chinaman or two; men and
women of culture; an Occasional
weatherbeaten COW puncher In west
ern accoutrements. Race, creed color.
previous condition OF servituoe;
wealth, position, all go by the board
in this institution, where each per
son receives attention behtt1nS ms
ailment. not his pocKetbook
Seek to Aid Students.
"The institution has grown beyond
nv brother and myself" DR.. William
Mayo, declares a bit proudly. we
And it hard keeping up with some OF
the younger oncoming doctors. Ihat
tustifies our consistent policy OF pick
ing helpers who we think to be al
WAYS a little better than ourselves.
If only we can be of help by passing
on to the younger men our findings,
and keep them from making the mis-
takes we have made in years of deal
ing with the most delicate problems
Of life, then the younger men can
grow from our shoulders ana give
to the people the benefit