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The earliest mention of medical administra- tion in Medina County is of Aunt Chloc, wife of Judge Brown, of Wadsworth, in 1816, she having a small chest of remedies, which, it is said, were of great value to the early pioneers. When any of them were taken siek "Aunt
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Chloe " would he sent for, and would deal out sueh remedies as her ripened judgment might direct. She, perhaps, was the first practitioner of the county.
It is said that Eve in the Garden of Eden, through transgression, entailed upon posterity the seeds of disease and death "and all our woe." But " Aunt Chloe," in the wilderness of America, with sympathetic heart and extended hand, afforded relief to many a suffering mortal, as if, in part, to atone for the stain upon her sex through the " fall."
This eounty has been remarkably exempt from diseases of local character or origin, mala- rious diseases being to a great degree confined to the loeality of Chippewa Lake, and the stream of same name flowing through the town of Se- ville. Very little of ague or intermittent fever has originated outside of these influenees in the county, and within its present limits. Bilious remittents have had a wider range, and no por- tions have been exempt, especially in the earlier periods, and, while the lands were being newly cultivated, continued fevers and the typhus of carlier days have been here from its earliest history, and later the typhoid fever of the French schools has been a constant visitor in all locali- ties. The early practitioners were doubtless much at fault in treating typhus and typhoid fevers, as the lancet and heroic treatment gen- erally, has-through some sad experience-been abandoned for an opposite, and it is hoped a better line, of medieation.
In 1833-34, a few cases of Asiatic eholera occurred at Medina Village. Among the deaths reported are David Barnhart and a Mr. Fuller, a stage driver in 1833, also a daughter of Dr. Hanson in 1834. Rufus Ferris, Sr., died of cholera in 1833, at a place near Wooster. He had been to Columbus with a cholera specific, and volun- teered his services to treat cholera, then prevail- ing among the penitentiary convicts ; not being retained there, he returned homeward, dying, as before stated, and was brought home to Medina
in a Pennsylvania covered wagon. No other deaths are reported as having occurred from cholera in the county.
About 1839-40, dysentery prevailed in va- rious seetions of the county of a malignant type and with great fatality, and again in 1853-54, and occasionally in later years in some certain locality. Since 1860, but little dysentery has been observed. In the year 1852, an outbreak of small-pox oeeurred in Sharon Township, at which time perhaps fifty cases of that and va- rioloid oeeurred in the practice of Drs. Hard & Willey. One young lady-a school-teacher ---- died during this outbreak. In 1855, Mr. Frank Kimball, while stumping the State with William Gibson, contraeted varioloid and returned home to Medina, where some ten or twelve cases of that and small-pox broke in upon the monotony of the town for a season.
During the winter of 1843-44, and the suceeed- ing spring and summer, occurred at Wadsworth and vieinity the great epidemic of malignant erysipelas, very severe in its character and at- tended with great fatality, its victims being usually of adult age and mostly females. Dur- ing this epidemie, about twenty-five eases proved fatal. Again, in 1848, the disease re- appeared, but spreading through Montville and Guilford and Wadsworth, with an increased mortality. Since 1848, it has not appeared in an epidemic form.
About the year 1859, diphtheria first appeared in an epidemie and malignant form. Up to this time, it had hardly been recognized as a discase sui generis, and its advent was an oe- casion of sorrow and mourning to many a household. Being little understood by the pro- fession, it held almost undisputed sway, and bid defianee to medical skill. It prevailed through- out the county, with favorite localities, in which to cxhibit its malignant enmity toward the human race. It delighted in laying waste the little ones of the family circle, and was at times insatiable, until all had been laid in the grave.
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It vied with scarlatina in its work of destruc- tion, and often called to its aid the latter, as if to make the fatal blow more effective. Thus for a series of years, it fed on death, when, seem- ingly exhausted with rioting, it became less malignant and less fatal, and for several years last past, it has afforded but little anxiety eom- paratively with former periods.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis, in the winter of 1863-64, appeared in the village of Me lina, and, having seized upon two persons for its victims, as suddenly disappeared, when the people hoped it had gone forever, but in the succeeding win- ter, 1864-65, it returned at Poe, in the family of Mr. Frank Hunter ; two of the three attacked, died. Cases then occurred in other parts of Montville and in Medina Village. Nearly all proved fatal. It had no favorite locality, but would suddenly attack an individual at a dis- tance from others, to appear again unexpectedly somewhere else. Children and adults were alike susceptible. Since 1865, it has occasion- ally been observed sporadically, as a single ease, perhaps, in one township, and then, after months, found in an adjoining town, etc. These eases almost invariably prove fatal. It is yet unsettled how to treat it best.
The Medina County Medical Lyceum was or- ganized October 9, 1833. On motion, Elijah DeWitt was called to the chair, and Henry Ormsby appointed Secretary. A draft of a con- stitution, prepared by Drs. De Witt and George W. Howe, was read by the Secretary and adopted.
By-laws read and adopted. Balloting for officers to serve until the annual meeting in February, 1834, resulted as follows : For Presi- dent, Bela B. Clark ; Vice President, George K. Pardee; Corresponding Secretary, Elijah De- Witt ; Recording Secretary, O. S. St John ; Treasurer, Jesse C. Mills. Censors-E. De Witt, George K. Pardee and O. S. St Joli.
On motion, Thomas Rowe was appointed to wait upon the Commissioners, and obtain if
possible, a remittance of the tax assessed against the physicians of the county.
Henry Ormsby, T. Rowe and George W. Howe were appointel a Committee to petition the Legislature for an act of incorporation.
On motion, the Correspon ling Secretary was instructed to notify each member of the late Nineteenth Medical District, residing in Medina County, of the proceedings of this meeting.
February 6, 1834, the Lyceum convened at the Mansion House of William R. Chidester, and organized under an act of incorporation by the Legislature. It being the annual meeting, the foregoing officers were re-elected for the year. Dr. Mills read an essay on " Congestion," and George W. Howe was appointed to reply at next meeting. On motion,
Resolved, That no person shall be admitted to this society, who is in the habitual use of in- toxicating spirits.
Henry Ormsby was fined $2 for non-attend- ance.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet- ing be published in the Ohio Free Press.
The following clauses appear in the Consti- tution :
12th-Admission fee-$1, and annual tax of $1.
15th-Penalty for non-attendance-$1.
16th-Penalty for failing to deliver disserta- tion when appointed-$3.
17th-The price of this society for granting diplomas shall be $5.
At the second annual mecting, in 1835, Drs. Bela B. Clark and E. DeWitt were appointed delegates to the W. R. Medieal Convention, at Cleveland, in May, to consider the establishing of a medical college on the Reservc.
The society at this time numbered ten mem- bers, viz., Bela B. Clark, T. Rowe, George K. Pardee, Elijah DeWitt, George W. Howe, J. C. Mills, S. Rawson, J. S. Ross, Lorenzo Warner and William S. H. Welton. In 1836, Dr. J. G. Morse became a member and was appointed
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Secretary. In 1837, Drs. J. Sawtell and J. Goodwin were received into membership; in 1839, Drs. Eastman, I. B. Beach and L. D. Tolman, also Amos Witter and Abel A. Clark. The following was discussed : " Is tartrate of antimony admissible as a remedy in general praetiee ;" Drs. L. Warner, A. Witter, N. East- man and J. G. Morse, disputants. A case of operation for inguinal hernia, by Dr. Morse, re- ported, patient recovered. In 1840, P. E. Mun- ger, Drs. Hopkins and Roekwell became mem- bers. Cases reported :
1-Case of fistula in ano, with operation, by Dr. L. Warner, recovery.
2-Scarlet fever, by Dr. Rowe, with treatment.
3-Pneumonia, by Dr. L. Warner, recovery. 4-Amputation of arm, by Dr. Warner, re- covery.
5-Dropsy, aseites, operation by Dr. Ormsby, death.
6-Inflammation of kidneys, by Dr. Clark, death.
7-Injury, by Dr. Tolman, recovery.
Valedietory address, Dr. B. B. Clark.
August 6, 1840-Society met in court house. Essays-1. Dr. B. B. Clark, on " Medical Juris- prudenee." 2. "Fever," by P. E. Munger. 3. On the "Effects of Quinine," Ormsby and War- ner. Cases reported-Puerperal Convulsions, Dr. Rowe; Diabetes, Dr. Eastman ; Hydro- thorax, Dr. Clark ; Ascites, Dr. Tolman.
November 5, 1840-Samuel Humphreville read a paper on "Medieal Evidence ; " Dr. Welton on "Blood Letting ;" Dr. Warner on " Habit; " Dr. Clark on " Puerperal Fever."
February, 1841-Dr. Munger read a paper on "Mereury ; " Dr. Tolman on " Diseases of the Liver." Several eases reported ; one of malig- nant fever, by Dr. L. Warner.
August 1841-Prof. H. A. Aekley addressed the society on "Diseases of the Mucous Mem- branes ; " Dr. Ormsby read a paper on "Tea and Tobaeeo ; " Hon. Charles Alcott addressed the society. A premium was offered for the
best dissertation on the pathology and treat. ment of dysentery. The society voted its sup- port to the Willoughby Medical College.
This brief sketeh ineludes the period of time in which the older members offieiated, and to follow up in detail would require more spaec and time than the plan of this work will permit, it being only desired in this article to briefly mention the original members, and a little of the old regime, as being of special interest.
This society has continued in existence up to 1872, with intervals of deeline and periods of activity. It has numbered on its list of mem- bers the best and a great majority of the phy- sicians who have praetieed in the county. Most of the carly members are gone hence, never to to return. A few survive. Dr. Ormsby now lives in Medina Village ; Dr. DeWitt at Elyria, eighty years of age ; Dr. O. S. St. John, at Lin- coln, Nebraska.
In mentioning those who have been members of the medical fraternity of this county, refer- ence has been had somewhat to chronological order. Among the earliest practitioners in the county was Dr. Amos Warner.
He eame to Ohio and Wadsworth with his father from Fairfield, Vt., in 1815, and entered Dr. Fisher's office in 1837, as a student of med- ieine. He was a careful, earnest student, and made haste slowly with his books, choosing rather to learn little day by day, and learn that little well. He graduated in Medina, after attending two courses of lectures at Willoughby in the year 1840, and entered into partnership with his preceptor, becoming a suceessful physi- cian and a useful man in society. About the year 1848, he removed to Garnavillo, Clayton Co., Iowa, where he enjoyed the full confidence of the people, and had an extensive ride. Returning from a visit among the sick, his horses ran away, and he was thrown from the carriage and killed.
Dr. Harlow Hard, son of Lysander Hard, eame with his father to Ohio in 1816, then about
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ten years of age. He went to school at the first schoolhouse built in Wadsworth Township, one mile east of the present village. His father was an unsettled sojourner among men, and devoted his energies to preaching the Gospel, and inherited all the poverty that an unsuccess- ful Methodist preacher is entitled to possess. He wandered up and down, into Pennsylvania and New York and Eastern Ohio, and finally returned to Wadsworth, about 1840. Mean- while, Harlow had managed, by streaks of luck, to get an education, and study medicine and attend lectures. Settling in Trumbull County about 1835, he came to Wadsworth, where he practiced for several years. He then moved to Plymouth, Ind. Remained at Plymouth some ten years, and went to Illinois, where he died.
Dr. John Smith was the first physician who located in Wadsworth, and perhaps the first in the county. He came from the State of New York in 1817, and boarded with Moody Weeks for a time. Here it was that occurred the inci- dent mentioned by N. B. Northrop in his his- tory, of giving so many pills to a sick man, when Mrs. Weeks discovered the pills to be black pepper, unground, rolled in flour. August, 1818, the doctor was called in attendance at the birth of Dr. M. K. Hard, now of Wooster, Ohio. Abram Hard, Jr., was tlic messenger on the occasion, and, riding along by night through the woods, his hat was brushed off by a hanging limb, and he was compelled to go on bareheaded, it being so dark he could not find the hat. That fall the doctor moved to the west part of the town, and lived with Luther Heminway until he put up a log house, afterward owned by He- man Hanchett. Here the doctor had an cxten- sive ride, through Wadsworth into Chippewa, and through Guilford and Montville. In 1820, he was elceted Justice of the Peace, having six votes, all others three. Northrop says of him : " He was in the habit of sending his boy to A. & J. Pardee's store for whisky." The following
is an exact copy of twenty or more orders sent by him all exactly alike.
Messrs. A. & J. Pardee.
Gents : Give the boy two jugs of whisky. Stop the jugs tight. Help the boy on the horse.
JOHN SMITH, Physician,
Dr. Smith was an ardent admirer of Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, and was often heard ex- tolling the skill and worth of that eminent physician, and named one of his ooys "Rush," after him. He returned to New York about 1828 or 1830.
Dr. William Barnes came to Lodi in 1817, and was the first physician there. But little is learned of him professionally. He built the first grist-mill in the township, and probably the first in the county. He was also a preacher of the Gospel, preaching the first funeral sermon in Harrisville, in 1817, it being at the burial of a child of George Burr.
Dr. Seth Blood came to Brunswick in 1817 ; built a log house one-eighth of a mile soutli of the center. Dr. Blood was a Surgeon of the war of 1812, and was appointed Surgeon of an Ohio regiment of State militia in 1822. He would appear on parade at general muster with the uniform, holsters and pistols which he wore during the war, and would soon get filled with military ardor, and be liable to feel insulted if addressed improperly, sometimes flourishing liis pistols with much prowess when offended. He was somewhat given to the fatal bowl, and died early in life, in the year 1826.
Dr. Stacey Hills, of Granger, was born in Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y., October 19, 1814. With his parents and family of ten children, he, the youngest, came into Granger the fall of 1818. He commenced very young going to school, attending diligently the short terms of those early wilderness times. When old enough to render a boy's help at home, his school days were limited to the inevitable three months' winter school. He read medicine under the instruction of Dr. John Cleveland, then of
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Granger, and graduated at Willoughby Medical College, February, 1843. To the study and practice of medicine, he gave his utmost ener- gies, until obliged to succumb, through the breaking-up of a remarkably vigorous mental and physical constitution. He practiced first at Bristol, Wayne Co., two years, then at Cop- ley, in company with Dr. Chapman, and for the greater part of his life at Grangerburgh, this county.
Dr. Bela B. Clark came to Medina County with his father in April, 1818, from Waterbury, Conn., and commenced the practice of medi- ciue immediately at Mediua Village. The first call on record for him professionally, was to the victims of that famous first session of the Court of Common Pleas at the " barn " of Squire Ferris, who had so fondly imbibed of the good old-fashioned whisky-as old settlers call it. Dr. Clark, it is said, prescribed homeopathically ; that is, the hair of the dog to cure the bite. Dr. Clark was one of the eight members of the Medina County Medical Lyceum at its organi- zation in 1833, and previously was one of the censors appointed by act of Legislature for the medical district. He also was the first Presi- dent of the Medina Medical Lyceum, and was one of the committee of three to consider the establishing of a medical college on the Re- serve. In those days, the doctor of a neigh- borhood was generally characterized and known by the saddle-bags thrown across the saddle on which he rode, and the leggings about his legs to keep off the mud, and brass spurs on his boots. A buggy or carriage of any kind was unkuown. After many years, a sulky or gig was instituted. Dr. Clark rode a little pony, a hardy and courageous little fellow as ever was known. But one night as the Doctor was riding homeward, along the bridle-path through the woods, a fearful scream of a wild animal burst upon his ears, and the pony, with instinet- ive fear, started at break-neck speed to the Doctor's great satisfaction, for the animal, sup-
posed to have been a panther, came bounding after, its screams " making the night air hid- eous," and filling horse and rider with alarm.
But, alas for them both, a tree-top had fallen into the path, and into this plunged horse and rider, pell-mell into confusion and darkness, and then one unearthly yell from the Doctor's throat broke in upon that tragie scene. It penetrated the deep recesses of the forest shade. It reverberated from earth to cloud, and, as it died away in the distance, a painful silence ensued, broken only by the night bird's plaintive song. That panther never got there, and the Doctor, leisurely gathering himself up, extricated the horse, and, picking up his pill bags, re-mounted and jogged homeward. At another time he was wending his way home, carrying some fresh meat which a patron had presented him, this being tied behind him on the horse; riding through the woods, and doubtless contemplating a sumptuous meal from the bundle at his back, suddenly a pack of hungry wolves, having snuffed the savory deli- cacy afar, came rushing on his pathway ; agaiu the little horse cut loose, and the fun began. He had not thought of danger, but in a mo- ment the blood was curdling in each vein. His fiery little courser sped away like an arrow from the bended bow, but in vain! the yells of the demons on his track grew nearer and more near, when his horse jumped a log, across the path, and the package was lost off by the sudden motion. This diverted the wolves from further pursuit, and the Doctor escaped, minus that supper of venison he so fondly anticipated.
In early days the Doctor wore a suit of linsey-' woolsey, with buckskin patches on the knees and seat of pants made by his mother, and was heard to say that the day he put them on was among the happiest in his life. Dr. Clark was a member of the Medina Medical Lyceum up to August, 1841, and his name appears there no more. He was an active, thorough and
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honorable physician, one of the first in the profession. Every brother of the profession was ready to pay him homage ; frieud or friend or foe alike had respect for his talent ; an ornament in society and leader in every en- terprise for the elevation of mankind, and the advance of education and the professiou or for the growth of the new country. Dr.Clark moved to Weymouth in 1826, anticipating the removal of the county scat to that place, thence to Rich- field in 1829, thence to Strongsville, again to Brunswick, thence to Columbus and finally to Ashland, where he died.
Dr. Jeremiah Clark, & younger brother of Dr. Bela B. Clark, attended lectures in Cincinnati, and located in Hamilton Township, Franklin Co., Ohio, about 1835.
Dr. Abel A. Clark came to Ohio in 1818 with his father; was brother of Dr. Bela B. Clark. He read medicine with Dr. Wilson at Weymouth about 1830 ; attended medical lec- tures at Cincinnati ; located in practice at Grovesport. on Ohio Canal, near Columbus ; moved to Mediua, in 1839, for his wife's health ; joined the Medina County Medical Society in August, 1839 ; practiced medicine about one year and returned to Grovesport; subsequently moved to Xenia, where he died, having his old preceptor, Dr. Wilson, for his medical attend- ant.
Dr. C. N. Lyman is a native of Wadsworth, born in 1819 ; son of Capt. George Lyman, of pioneer memory. He was in the office of Dr. E. Kendrick one and a half years, when he came under the instruction of Dr. George K. Par- clee in 1840 ; attended two courses of lectures and graduated at Transylvania University in Louisville, Ky., spring of 1843. Formed a partnership with Dr. Pardee same year, which continued until Dr. Pardec's death. In 1853, moved to Medina Village, going into the drug store with A. Armstrong. Dr. Lyman joined the Medina County Medical Society Aug. 3, 1843. Aug. 1, 1844, Dr. Lyman read a paper before the
society, on "Epidemic Erysipclas," with reports of cases and mode of treatment; elected Presi- dent in 1848, of society ; chosen President of Northeastern Ohio Union Medical Association 1878-thirty years after having presided in the Medina County Society. Dr. Lyman is at this time the oldest practitioner of the county, and has performed more labor, professionally, than any physician in the county sinee its organization, and yet, by virtue of the strict- est habits in every respect, his physical powers show but little of the decay which usually sue- ceeds a life of toil, and his mental faculties exhibit no traces of the increase of years.
Dr. Henry Spillman, was the son of James Spillman and Naucy O'Brien, who came from Ireland and settled in Wadsworth about 1820. Dr. Spillman studied medicine in the office of Dr. A. Fisher at Western Star; attended medical lectures at Willoughby, and graduated in 1840. He subsequently attended a course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Before commencing the practice of medicine he read law and was admitted to the bar, but did not practice to any extent. Practiced medi- cine at Streetsboro and at Bristol, Wayne County, also at Decatur, Ind. Located at Medina about 1850. Here he had an extended prac- tice, and for several years was thus actively engaged. About 1858, he went into the drug trade at Medina and gave up riding, and pre- scribing except from his store, until the spring of 1862, when he accepted an appointment as Sur- geon of the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with date of rank March 18, 1862. He was commissioned April 4, 1862 ; was with the regi- ment on the advance from Pittsburg Landing to Corinth, but was taken sick before the evacua- tion and started for home. Got up the river to Evansville, Ind., where, finding he could go no further, he was taken ashore and found friends among the brotherhood of Masons, who did everything possible for him ; but he soon sank and died in May, 1862, having been on duty with
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the regiment but a few weeks. His body was sent home and buried in the churchyard at Medina. Dr. Spillman was a man of fine intellectual en- dowment and culture, and possessed a remark- able memory. While a student of medicine, he would take his books and go out under a shade tree and read for two or three hours, and come in and recite the whole, page after page, almost verbatim. His mind was well storcd with use- ful information, and he was generally prepared to answer inquiries pertaining to science, litera- ture, law or theology. It is with feclings of sadness that we contemplate the death of Dr. Spillman. Away from the home he had so recently left in the vigor of health and man- hood, with only the hand of strangers to minis- ter unto him in his last painful, hopeless streg- gles for life, even then in the icy embrace of death, no wonder his mind wandered, in fevered dreams, or in death's hallucinations, back to his home and fireside, calling upon friends and familiar faces to lift him up from the pit of despair, or save him from the approaching tem- pest. Hastening homeward, anxious and long- ing-life to him in the balance-his frail bark strands on the shore, and alas! home for him shall be home no more.
Dr. Nathaniel Eastman was the first physi- cian at the center of Wadsworth and came from Olenn, N. Y., in 1820. During the war of 1812, he went from Erie, Penn., to Put-in Bay to assist in the care of the wounded at Perry's Vic- tory. Dr. Eastman built a log house one-half mile north of the center of Wadworth, and aft- erward built one on the northeast corner lot at the center. Practiced there until 1826, when he removed to Seville and opened up a hotel, which for many years was in his charge, while also attending to his professional calls. He joined the Medical Society May 7, 1839, and continued an active member until Novem- ber, 1849. The Doctor continued his profes- sional labors while his health permitted, but in the later years was afflicted with diabetes, and
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