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Show Country Doctor Remains Active At Age of 90 BURLINGAME, KAS. One of the last of Kansas' horse-and-buggy doctors, 90-year-old Dr. F. E. Schenck hails modern medical techniques tech-niques and the latest drugs but sadly recalls "the good old days." When the venerable old doctor was in his early years of practice here, his use of horses often spared him some physical strain in an almost al-most 24-hour daily schedule. His team, he recalls, could be trusted to take him home without guidance. "That's one advantage we had over the present-day doctors," doc-tors," he maintains. "The team would just head for home and I could sleep during the ride." Despite the weather, the hour or his advanced age, Dr. Sphenck still will answer a call from any of the townsfolk. He has reduced his practice prac-tice considerably and should cut it down more, but he says it's just habit for him to minister to the medical needs of the people of Burlingame. Thp hahit is sn firmlv entrenched. in fact, that Dr. Schenck has become be-come an institution in this small Kansas town. Some of the people he has brought into the world are babies nursing in their mother's arms. Others are more than 60 years old. Dr. Schenck doesn't have any idea how many births he has assisted. "I do know," he says, "that I have brought the third generation genera-tion of some families arouncf here into the world." A large man with good posture and firm voice, Dr. Schenck is partly bald but has a thick gray mustache. He keeps well posted on all new developments In the medical medi-cal profession, his medical library being considered one of the largest In the country. Advancements in medical techniques tech-niques and development of new drugs will be responsible for an ever-increasing rise in the nation's health standards, he believes. |