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CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES - 292 CHAPTER XIV PHYSICIANS PAST AND PRESENT THE VALUE OF MEDICAL MEN-ADVANCEMENT IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE- EARLY PHYSICIANS OF HARRISON COUNTY-PHYSICIANS PRACTICING IN 1894--THOSE IN PRACTICE DURING THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE YEARSMED1 CAL SOCIETIES-HOSPITALS- COUNTY MEDICAL COMMISSIONER-DR. S. B. MCGAVRAN FIRST UNDER NEW LAW. From the earliest history of the human race there has been sickness and need of doctors, both in savage and civilized portions of the globe. Long before the anatomy of man was understood, long before Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood, long before any regular schools of medicine were known, the ailments of men, women and children have been treated in various ways by those skilled in what they were pleased to term the "art of healing." Cold and hot water, roots and barks, berries and weeds, from field and forest have been used for centuries, with considerable merit in certain cases. Who does not recall the various simple remedies prescribed by our grandparents for colds and fevers? But as a regular science, Galen was the founder of the first school of medicine and ever since that far away date the world has been progressing in the science of medicine. The advancement made m surgery and dentistry in the last third of a century is indeed wonderful. Operations once considered impossible are now executed with certainty and almost without pain. Diseases once believed incurable are now treated with almost a certainty of final recovery. Notwithstanding, in modern times the world is filled with new "schools" of medicine-including many "pathies" and "practics," yet the great and universal school of medicine still is known as the "regular" or allopathic school. There is indeed much of medical virtue in other systems of practice. The water-cure and homeopathic treatments, beginning in the fifties, has its friends today ; the root and herb doctor with his botanical medicine chest for a century or more had its followers and virtue was found in such remedies and many cures affected by their skillful use. But as a general rule the great medical colleges in this country and Europe have always been of the allopathic theory of medicine, though some have adopted what is known as the eclectic school, using in their ,practice whatever seems the most rational in the individual cases, in fact no successful physician today strictly adheres to the theory and uses the exact remedies given by the college from which he graduated, but seeks to employ that which science and experience shows to be the safest and best remedy to effect a speedy and permanent cure. Without going into detail over the various schools of medicine used by the physicians of Harrison County in the first half century of CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES- 293 its history, it may be stated that the following persons were practicing medicine within the county in 1840-45: Martin Wilson, John McBean, A. G. Osborn, John Pearce, George Lucy, Thomas Rowles, William Mills, Thomas Findley, Doctor Harmon, Moses Kennedy, S. Thompson, William Van Horn, E. H. McCoy, G. W. Duffield, James Bethel, Robert Gamble, Jesse Hall, Horace Belknap, F. C. Robinson, J. H. Stevenson, William G. Smith, T. C. Conn, R. Patton, James Patton, Samuel Black, James P. Barnes, A. T. McClure, I. G. Parry, E. Conaway, Thomas Crumley, William Beadle, James Drummond. PHYSICIANS IN PRACTICE 1N 1894 Practicing in Cadiz and vicinity—J. D. Wortman, W. T. Sharp, John S. McBean, J. S. Campbell, W. H. Lemmon, Mrs. M. J. Lyons, Miss Mary Lemmon, S. B. McGavran. Practicing at Harrisville and vicinity—A. B. Wilkin, G. H. Colville, J. Comly. Practicing at Hopedale and vicinity—J. D. West, L. A. Crawford. Practicing at New Jefferson and vicinity—Walter Spence, John Nixon. Practicing at Jewett and vicinity—W. L. England, A. C. Grove. Practicing at Scio and vicinity—J. D. Snyder, G. W. Lyle, T. H. Crook, G. W. Custer. Practicing at Bowerston and vicinity—S. B. McGuire, J. G. Gordon. Practicing at Franklin and vicinity—W. A. Welch, James Stone. Practicing at Tippecanoe and vicinity-B. G. Anderson. Practicing at Freeport and vicinity—J. G. Howell, W. A. Zellers. Practicing at Piedmont and vicinity—W. D. Copeland, D. G. Quinn. Practicing at Warfel and vicinity—John Morgan. Practicing at Deersville and vicinity-John Wallace and Frank James. Practicing at Hanover and vicinity—A. C. Nixon. Practicing at Moorsfield and vicinity—J. H. Wherry, E. D. Moore. Practicing at New Athens and vicinity—Charles Cobb, Albert Dickerson, James A. McGrew. PHYSICIANS PRACTICING IN THE COUNTY 1N 1920-21 In Cadiz the medical doctors at present are as follows: Drs. S. B. McGavran, R: P. Rusk, H. I. Heaviline, John S. Campbell, 0. H. Finnical, W. H. Lemmon, Mary Lemmon, John H. Mattern. In Hopedale the physician is Doctor W. S. Spence. In Freeport the physicians are Drs. W. A. Zellars, W. H. Black and C. C. Whitsett. In Piedmont the physicians are Doctors Curtis and Dow. In the village of Bowerston the physicians are Drs. W. E. Masters, H. A. Mackaman. 294 - CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES. In the village of Scio the present doctors ars Drs. J. M. Scott and G. D. Custer. In the village of Jewett the doctors are Drs. W. L. England and A. C. Grove. In the village of Tippecanoe the doctor is Dr. H. G. Bonnell. In Harrisville the doctor at present is Dr. J. C. McClester. In New Athens, J. A. McGrew, A. B. Tubbs. In Deersville is Doctor James. There are possibly a few more physicians within the inland villages of this county. Several of the present-day physicians have biographical sketches in the biographical section of this set of books, hence are not here inserted. The W. K. Black as named as being in practice at Freeport at this time, is the grandson of old Dr. H. C. Black who practiced there at an early date. |