Collection	Miscellaneous
Photographer	Parker's Studio or M. M. Hazeltine
Description	Dr. Herschel. E. Currey. "He was born in Indiana in I860. The public schools of his native state afforded him his preliminary education. which was supplemented by a three years course at the State University of Louisiana. He then went West to strengthen his finances, intending thereafter to continue his studies. He was partly successful in this, and entered the Sedalia University, at Sedalia, Mo., where he remained for three years and was a member of the faculty when he left. In 1887 he entered the Medical College at Louisville, Ky. After graduating he practiced in Indiana, but preferring the West made several changes, locating here in 1893. He served as second vice president, of the National Eclectic .Medical Association in 1895 and 1896, and is serving his third term as first vice president of the Oregon State Eclectic Medical Association. In 1895 he was elected an honorary member of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of California. In the spring of 1896, he was appointed U. S. Pension surgeon, but resigned later in the year and accepted the position of assistant superintendent of the Maclean Hospital and Sanitarium of San Francisco. Since 1887 he the spent one-fourth of his time in post-graduate work, having attended the California Medical College as late as last year, graduating from it with the degree of C. M. (Master of Surgery). In 189 he was appointed state delegate to the national and international convention of the World's Congress of Medico-Climatology, the former meeting in Omaha this year, and the latter in Paris in 1900. Several years ago Dr. Curry took up the study of electro-therapeutics, a science which is rapidly gaining ground and which, if there is any truth in the "survival of the fittest" will surely reach the apex of common practice. He has provided himself with a Morton-Holtz-W???? electric machine, and a complete set of electrodes. It generates its own electricity, without friction, and in he treatment of nervous diseases, whether a simple headache, or a deep-seated trouble, its curative powers, when properly applied, seem immeasurable. In chronic diseases it is also more than beneficial, and we truly believe it is nature's own remedy. Dr. Curry's offices are pleasantly located in Rooms 1-2-3 over First National Bank: No. 3 being his reception, room No. 2 consultation room, and No. 1 being devoted to his electrical and X Ray apparatus. He has one of the finest X Ray apparatus in the state, and a large number of photographs of all kinds of fractures, etc., which he has located through its efforts are to be seen in his reception room." Source: p. 17, Souvenir Edition. Morning Democrat, Bowen & Small, Publishers, May 20th, 1898.
Object ID	1980.1.543
Place	Baker City

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