TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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FROM THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE
THURSDAY , JANUARY 17, 1918
DR. H.V. TYNER LOSES AFTER HARD FIGHT WITH TUBERCULOSIS ; BODY TAKEN TO WALCOTT FOR BURIAL
REMARKABLE STORY OF ENERGY , DETERMINATION AND UNCONQUARABLE WILL POWER IS BROUGHT TO A CLOSE
GRADUATED FROM MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF SEWANCE UNIVERSITY.
DR. H.V . TYNER DIED YESTERDAY AT NOON AT HIS RESIDENCE ON EAST COURT STREET. HE HAD BEEN AFFLICTED WITH TUBERCULOSIS FOR MORE THAN NINE YEARS , DURING WHICH TIME A GAME FIGHT AGAINST THE MALADY WAS MAINTAINED . UP TO WITHIN THE LAST FEW MINUTES HE REFUSED TO ADMIT DEFEAT, HOLDING FIRMLY TO THE BELIEF THAT HE WOULD ONCE MORE BE ABLE TO RALLY AND CONTINUE THE BATTLE FOR LIFE .
DR. H.V. TYNER WAS A SON OF JIM TYNER OF WALCOTT , AND DURING HIS EARLY BOYHOOD DAYS , AND WHILE IN SCHOOL PRIOR TO THE PERIOD OF YOUNG MANHOOD , GAVE PROMISE OF A BRIGHT FUTURE. HE POSSESSED AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAR MIND , WAS ALWAYS FOREMOST IN HIS CLASSES , AND MAINTAINED A SCHOLARSHIP LEAD WITHOUT , APPARENTLY PUTTING FORTH THE SLIGHTEST EFFORT. HIS MEMORY WAS RETENTIVE AND THING ONCE HEARD , OR BOOKS READ , REMAINED WITH HIM.
HE WAS SENT TO SEWANEE , TENNESSEE , ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO , WHERE HIS STUDIES IN MEDICINE WERE TAKEN UP. GRADUATING FROM THIS SPLENDID INSTITUTION , HE RETURNED TO GREENE COUNTY AND ENTERED ACTIVELY INTO THE PRACTICE OF HIS PROFESSION. HE GAVE CAREFUL STUDY TO STUDIES INCIDENT TO THE CAREER HE HAD MAPPED OUT AND HAD ESTABLISHED HIMSELF IN THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE INTO WHOSE HOMES HIS PRACTICE LED HIM WHEN EVIDENCES OF THE DREADED WHITE PLAGUE WERE OBSERVED . DR. TYNER , AFTER BEING WEAKENED AS A RESULT OF REPEATED HEMORRHAGES , DECLINED TO PUT WORK ASIDE AND THROW HIMSELF UPON THE BOUNTY OF HIS PARENTS PREFERRING TO FIGHT HIS OWN WAY UPON AN INDEPENDENTENT BASIS IN THE HOPE OF RECOVERING LOST VITALITY AND OVERCOMING THE TUBERCULOUS TENDENCY , HE WENT TO COLORADO , NEW MEXICO , TEXAS AND OTHER POINTS IN THE WEST EXPECTING TO BE BENEFITED BY THE AQUITABLE CLIMATE BUT RETURNED EACH TIME WITH BUT SLIGHT TRACES OF IMPROVEMENT .
AT ANOTHER TIME HE WENT TO GULFPORT , MISS. BUT WAS ADVISED BY A RESIDENT PHYSICIAN NOT TO ATTEMPT TO SPEND ANY TIME AT THAT PLACE , AND RETURNED TO PARAGOULD , BLISHEARTENED BUT NOT ENTIRELY DISCOURGED . RELIZING HIS CONDITION , AND SEEING IN IT AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A STUDY OF TUBERCULOUS AND ITS ATTENDANT . DR. TYNER SET HIMSELF IN THE TASK OF STUDYING THIS BRANCH OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION , TAKING HIS OWN CASE AS A CRITERION. POSSESSED OF A WILL THAT WOULD NOT ADMIT DEFEAT , SUPPLEMENTED WITH A REMARKABLE ENERGY , HE DECLINED TO QUIT WORK , AS HE KNEW HE SHOULD HAVE DONE , BUT RATHER PUT IN REGULAR OFFICE HOURS EITHER STUDYING HIS OWN CONDITION FROM A SCIENTIFIC STANDPOINT , OR RESPONDING TO CALLS FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE . AT TIMES WHEN THE WEATHER WAS RAW , PUBLIC ROADS IN A FRIGHTFUL CONDITION .
DR. TYNER TRAVELING IN A OPEN BUGGY , SPENDING HOURS AT A TIME IN COLD DRIVES AN IN LABORIOUS WORK. IT IS REMARKABLE INDEED THAT HE SHOULD HAVE STOOD THE SELF IMPOSED GRIND FOR NINE YEARS . HIS FATHER WAS WILLING AND ANXIOUS AT ALL TIMES TO AID HIM AND DID IN A SUBSTANTIAL FORM BUT YOUNG TYNER WAS MADE OF MATERIAL OF THIS KIND , PREFERRING TO EARN HIS OWN WAY AGAINST ALMOST INSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLES.
WHEN THE FAMOUS GERMAN SPECIALIST , DR. FRIEDMANN , CAME TO NEW YORK AMID A HALO OF NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING , WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT A SPECIFIC TREATMENT FOR TUBERCULOSIS HAD BEEN FOUND , DR. TYNER ALTHOUGH IN A MEASURE OF SKEPTICAL OF DR. FRIEDMANN'S CLAIMS , WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO GO TO THE CITY AND TAKE TREATMENT. HE WAS NOT IMPROVED BY THE EXPERIMENT ALTHOUGH FIRM IN HIS BELIEF THAT THE METHOD AND IDEAS ADVANCED BY FRIEDMANN WOULD AT SOME TIME PROVE MERITORIOUS. LATER HE WENT TO ASHEVILLE , NORTH CAROLINA , AND TOOK THE VON RUCK SERUM TREATMENT AT THE SANITARIUM MAINTAINED A MILE OUT FROM THE CITY. HE RETURNED TO PARAGOULD WITH EVEN MORE HOPE , HAVING PINNED GREAT FAITH TO THE METHODS EMPLOYED , AND FOR WEEKS CONTINUED TO USE THE SERUM PREPARED BY VON RUCK , INJECTING IT HYPODERMICALLY. HE INSISTED THAT AS A RESULT OF THESE VARIOUS EXPERMIMENTS HE HAD ESTABLISHED SUFFICIENT RESISTANCE TO KEEP AT WORK , ALTHOUGH AT TIMES BEING WEAKENED BY PULMONARY HEMORRHAGES .
TWO YEARS AGO DR. TYNER WENT TO DENVER , COLO. TO STUDY A METHOD OF X-RAY TREATMENT ADVANCED BY A FAMOUS PHYSICIAN . HE WAS MUCH IMPRESSED WITH THE SYSTEM AND AFTER COMING BACK TO PARAGOULD CONCLUDED TO PURCHASE AN X-RAY EQUIPMENT AND DEVOTE HIS TIME EXCLUSIVELY TO SELF TREATMENT AND OFFICE WORK.
GRADUALLY , HOWEVER , HE GREW WEAKER . THE CLIMAX CAME SATURDAY NIGHT WITH A SEVERE HEMORRHAGE . SO SERIOUS WAS THE OUTLOOK AT THAT TIME THAT HIS FATHER WAS SENT FOR AND REMAINED WITH HIM DURING SUNDAY , AND THE FOLLOWING MORNING. YESTERDAY AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK HE REMARKED THAT HE WAS FEELING MUCH BETTER , BUT WITHIN A VERY FEW MINUTES WAS STRICKEN WITH ANOTHER HEMORRHAGE AND DIED IN FOUR MINUTES.
THE DEATH OF DR. TYNER REMOVES FROM THE MEDICAL FRATERNITY A MAN WHO WOULD WITH ONLY AN EVEN CHANCE HAVE ARISEN TO PROMINENCE . THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY , DETERMINATION AND DOGGED TENACITY HE DEVOTED TO HIS OWN CASE , AND THE DIFFICULTIES HE ENCOUNTERED DURING THE PERIOD OF HIS AFFLICTION , WOULD HAD HE BEEN BLESSED WITH GOOD HEALTH , HAVE PLACED HIM AT THE HEAD OF HIS CALLING.
DR. TYNER WAS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN. FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS HE HAD MAINTAINED HIS OFFICES AT THE OLD STUDIO ON WEST COURT BETWEEN LONG'S STORE AND THE JONES FLATS , AND RESIDED IN THE OLD BRADBURN DWELLING. THESE PROPERTIES HE HAD PURCHASED SEVERAL WEEKS AGO.