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Charles E. GOULD, diploma, Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Alfred M. SHIELDS, diploma, Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio.
James M. MORRIS, under ten year’s clause.
John H. PETERS, under ten year’s clause.
E. T. RHODES, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, under three year’s clause.
John Q. HOWELL, under ten year’s clause.
Benjamin F. OVERMYER, Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio.
Cyrus W. CHAMPBELL, Indiana Medical College, Indianapolis Ind., under three year’s
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, August 19, 1885]
NEW PHYSICIAN
Dr. J. E. Rogers, of Portsmouth, O., who recently secured the Dr. Wilson A. Smith farm
west of the city, is soon to become a resident of this city. He is a physician.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, February 18, 1918]
TO BUILD OFFICE
Dr. C. J. Loring is making alterations at his home on South Main street and in a short
time will establish his office there. The new office will be located on the south side of his house
and will have an entrance off of Eleventh street. He will change to his new location sometime next
month.
[Rochester Sentinel, Monday, January 8, 1923]
NEW PHYSICIAN TO START PRACTICE HERE
Rochester will son have a new physician practicing here, he being Dr. W. R. Markely,
formerly of Lafayette, who will open his office November 1st. Dr. Markely will bring his family
here with him. He has been practicing in Lafayette for about 13 years. He will open offices in the
A. B. Shore building.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, October 24, 1924]
YESTER-YEAR PHYSICIANS ENDURED MANY HARDSHIPS
The advent of the hospital in Rochester is included within the memory of a majority of
our citizens. It was started back in 1905 when Dr. W. S. Shafer saw the need for it, and acted
upon the decision that we should have it.
It has been one of the most valuable of all community assets, though its road to success
has been strewn by many hurdles. Public and professional skepticism was the first and most
difficult problem to be solved, but with that solution, worked out chiefly by the process of
successful practice, opposition gradually diminished. Today the evolution of the hospital from
primitive practice is almost complete. The public health, like almost everything else is watched
from a centralized point, and Rochester is indeed fortunate to have a corps of trained physicians,
surgeons and nurses to keep that service effective.
Before Hospitals
The practice of medicine in Fulton county bears inception with the arrival in this locality
of Dr. John J. Shryock in the early 30’s, and his professional career in this county until his death
1855.
In those pioneer days materia medica was reported as a general idea of anatomy, a grist
of remedies, and a never yielding spirit. Sulphur and lard, goose grease, native herbs, barks and
leaves, and a long list of teas were the catholicons used. The gentle art of bleeding a patient for
any ailment not understood was the vogue. Instead of building a sick man’s resistance, he was
helped along the journey to oblivion by simply removing such strength as he might have had, by a
simple puncture of the blood-streams.