Cloudy. Mild. Snow melting fast. Did not feel well. Stayed home from college. Dr. Kathan here in evening. Temperature 104. Went to bed and took sweat.
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Uh-oh. Another illness. Wasn't it nice when doctors visited you at home? Imagine all the money that was saved on health care in those days! No trips to the emergency room or disposable surgery kits ratcheting up the expenses.
Dr. Kathan was probably Dayton L. Kathan, who lived on Union Street in Schenectady in 1920. He was a graduate of Albany Medical College and in 1919 was 63. Dayton had a brother Sherman who was also a physician, born in 1864 and therefore 55 at the time Stanford was treated. But Sherman lived in Conklinsville, 42 miles from Schenectady, so was probably not the doctor who attended Stanford.
Sherman Kathan was kind of interesting. He apparently lived for a while in the Minnesota territory. He's listed in the census as living in Aitkin, MN (29 miles East of Brainerd) in 1895 with his wife, Carrie, who was seven years younger than him. They'd only been married a year then. He was already a doctor, having graduated from Albany Medical College in 1891. They must not have liked it there because by 1900 they were living in New York City.
He died in 1929 in an automobile accident. His wife, however, died in 1921 at only 49 years old. They had no children.
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Uh-oh. Another illness. Wasn't it nice when doctors visited you at home? Imagine all the money that was saved on health care in those days! No trips to the emergency room or disposable surgery kits ratcheting up the expenses.
Dr. Kathan was probably Dayton L. Kathan, who lived on Union Street in Schenectady in 1920. He was a graduate of Albany Medical College and in 1919 was 63. Dayton had a brother Sherman who was also a physician, born in 1864 and therefore 55 at the time Stanford was treated. But Sherman lived in Conklinsville, 42 miles from Schenectady, so was probably not the doctor who attended Stanford.
Sherman Kathan was kind of interesting. He apparently lived for a while in the Minnesota territory. He's listed in the census as living in Aitkin, MN (29 miles East of Brainerd) in 1895 with his wife, Carrie, who was seven years younger than him. They'd only been married a year then. He was already a doctor, having graduated from Albany Medical College in 1891. They must not have liked it there because by 1900 they were living in New York City.
He died in 1929 in an automobile accident. His wife, however, died in 1921 at only 49 years old. They had no children.
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