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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 20, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 42.

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Sanitarium Work in Washington, D. C.

By R. S. INGERSOLL, M. D.

THE readers of the REVIEW will no doubt be interested to know something of the plans for the future of the sanitarium work here. From the beginning there has been a healthy increase in influence and patronage. The starting of a sanitarium at Nos. 1, 2, Iowa Circle, Washington, known as the Branch Sanitarium, in 1903, was followed later by the erection and dedication of the main institution at Takoma Park. The work of the city institution was of great value in acquainting the people of Washington with our principles and methods of treatment.
Since the dedication of the main institution at Takoma Park, however, it has been a question as to the advisability of running two sanitariums within six miles of each other. We have, therefore, modified the city institution, making its strong feature the treatment-rooms, and are now endeavoring to direct the resident patients to the sanitarium at Takoma Park. The Drs. H. N. and Patience Bourdeau Sisco will now be associated with the Takoma Park institution, and will also make daily trips to the city to look after the work there.
This step enables us to materially strengthen the work as a whole. We shall now be able to allow the different physicians to specialize, and this will give better satisfaction to our patients as well as to ourselves. Among the lines we shall make specially strong are surgery, treatment of nervous diseases, and laboratory work. In the laboratory, analyses of the different fluids and excretions of the body will be made a specialty.
While the city institution has been paving the way for the institution in the country, it has also been training medical missionary nurses. Two students were graduated from the city sanitarium in 1906, seven in 1907, and three in 1908. These, with four who came to the main institution, in the country, for their third year, made a total of seven graduating in Washington that year.
We desire the prayers of all our people that the Lord may especially bless the medical work in all its branches here in Washington, and that the influence of the work done may tell for the advancement of the truth. We will endeavor to work and pray while you pray.
R. S. INGERSOLL, M. D.