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Show Physician Who Has Been Practicing Since 11365 Reaches 100th Milestone MIDDLEBURY, VL, Jan. () Dr. Merritt H. Eddy, America's oldest old-est practicing physician, celebrated his 100th birthday today. Sine 1865 Dr. Eddy hu cared for the wants of a host of patients in the surrounding countryside. He hu shaken sleep from his eyes to trudge through snow-blanketed roads to a sufferer's side and he hu driven his norm and carriage through flooded streama to usher new baby into the world. Today, the feebleness of age upon him, h advises his patients from his bed. few hospitals; ttr was not In general gen-eral us; th stethoscope wu not included in-cluded in a physician' equipment, and th finger were used to determine deter-mine fever. Dr. Eddy charged 85 cent for his first call after becoming a doctor. He uid he would have charged a dollar, but th man was poor. Dr. Eddy probably has ushered more babies into th world than any other doctor in New England. He lost count som year ago, but the number would run considerably ovr 2000. Beside being America oldest : practicing physician. Dr. Eddy also is the oldest graduate of Middlebury college, the oldest member of Chi Psi fraternity and the oldest Methodist Meth-odist and Mason In Vermont He first studied medicine during the civil war when he expected to become an army surgeon. He was graduated from the Burlington medical medi-cal college in 1865. Those were the days, he told Interviewers, when nurse were unknown; there were |