The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
Roosevelt to Pay Honor to
Famed Surgeons at
Rochester.
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all the places which president
/ Roosevelt will visit on his tour Of
inspection from Seattle back to
Washington. he viii be the guest Of
hOnOr-eXcept in this little southern
/ Minnesota town of $4,000 inhab-
itantS.
Here. in what is popularity called
The Clinic City" the President
merely Will be an outstanding par
ticipant. on his arrival Wednesday,
in bestoWal of an honor on two OF
the greatest surgeons in the world
Drs. William James and Charles
Horace Mayo, known to thousands
in America and elsewhere simply as
the famous Mayo brothers.
The occasion will be presentation
Of citation to the two men by the
American Legion.
This citation practically will sum
up nearly a half century of medical
progress in which the Mayo brothers
have taken leading parts.
It was back in 1889 that the
brothers. and their already famous
father. DR.. William WOrrell Mayo,
undertook TO direct a newly built
small hospital which had grown out
of a disastrous hurricane six years
earlier. And it was from this small
St. Mary's hospital that the great
Mayo clinic Sprang.
Today. the institution known as
the Mayo clinic comprises MOD
ern 100000 thirteen-otOry Struc-
ture. a smaller building which was
the original clinic, and some hall
a dozen other hospitals hotels
with hospital facilities, SanitariumS
and laboratorieS-all stated by
some 500 physicians ami surgeons
the entire enterprise represent
ing an investment of about SIG
600 900.
Some $4,000 patients enter this
institution annually. among them
some of the most famous person.
alitieS of the world.
Rich and poor alike are treated
/ regardless of their fame or for
tune. under an established rule of
the two MayoS to charge for their
services according o person S
capacity to pay, not to charge
more than 10 per cent of his an
nual income no matter how long
he STAYS or how troublesome the
case. and-here is an example OF
/ the noted Mayo altruiSm-tO set
aside all money above $1,000 in each
/ fee they get to outside charity.
For the Mayos are just as noted
for their charity as they are Tor
their keen surgical ability. Their
father. who came to Minnesota in
1855 and set up practice as a
simple country doctor. soon became
famous for his charitable work.
And the two sons just continued
this. but on a much larger scale.
The result is that today, with
Doctor VIII at the age of -, and
Doctor Charlie" at the age of 60,
the Mayo Clinic no longer is their
own.
II is owned jointly by group OF
nine doctors. including the Mayo
brothers. forming the Mayo Prop
critics Association. each member
having an equal vote in its opera
ton.
1t is operated in connection with
/ the University OF Minnesota, as a
graduate school of medicine, under
direction OF the Mayo Foundation
+ for Medical Education and Research.
Rochester. as a result. has be-
come the center for medical train
in and research for aspiring sur
geonS and physicians throughout
the world. Just as much as it is the
center of medical aid for sick per-
sons of all countries.
The clinic is most famous for its
surgical wonders. because the Mayo
brothers naturally drifred into this
phase Of medicine and soon became
the country'S leading surgeons.
DR.. Will found himself. as he
once called 1t. the belly doctor, =
while DR.. Charlie became the head
doctor each an expert IN his par
ticular field. but both interested in
the-entre realm of medicine as we'll
As DR.. Will once remarked:
Instead of the patient having
one spoke looked over, We go over
the whole wheel"
Dr.. Will was married in 1884 10
Miss Hattie NJ. Damon OF Rochester.
and had five children, three OF
whom died IN infancy. The other
TWO are Carrie, now Mrs. Donald c.
Balfour. and Phoebe, now Mrs.
Mailman Walters.
DR.. Charlie married Miss Edith NJ.
Graham. also Of Rochester. in 1898.
and this couple had eight children,
two Of whom have died. They since
have adopted two more children,
John and MaTilyn.
OF their own children. Charles w.
and Joseph G. now are practicing
F physicians. The other four are
Dorothy. Edith. Louise and Esther.
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