The Mayo Clinic
Bill went straight to the Mayo Clinic and they
started on their examination of him in the afternoon
[Monday] and it is some examination
as it will not be finished until Friday next and they will then have his
case diagnosed. So far everything is going as well as can be expected
and from the doctor's (who is looking after him) advice he seems to think
it will not be long before he will be quite OK again or rather the treatment
he will prescribe for him will not prevent us taking up our trip again.
Bill was up at the Clinic again the morning a while and when he returned
we took a car without a driver and spent the remainder of the morning
driving around the town seeing the sights. The total cost for the hire
of a Ford Coupe nearly new in this fashion was 9/- so that is dirt cheap
we consider.
So far we have received no letters from Aussie although we wrote to the
Express Co at New York and asked them to forward our letters on to us
here.
The Mayo Clinic
here just keeps the town. It is a marvellous place with 300 doctors employed
all under the direct control of the Mayo's and the people flock to them
in thousands every day. The town lists its population at 13,000 while
there is always at least 25,000 in the place. Of course it is full of
hotels and hospitals and cripples of all sorts abound. It is a pitiful
sight to stand outside the clinic and watch the hundred pouring in and
out of the place the whole time suffering from every known form of disease
and lots I suppose unknown and line up in queues to wait their turn. It
puts one in mind of Hickson's Mission on a very larger scale.
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