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science for diminishing the mosquito
threat, but if you will visit the grave-
yard of those days and count the
little graves, you can understand
the suffering this enemy caused the
pioneers.
Dr. Campbell was an old-timey
(sic) horse and buggy doctor, accord-
ing to his great-niece, Margaret
Campbell Piland, in an article writ-
ten for The Parker County History
Book. There wasn’t [sic] any roads to
travel; it was cow trails, creek beds,
wooded areas or a cold open prairie.
According to Piland, when Dr.
Campbell first opened his practice,
the fee to treat a patient with a
confinement case cost about $2.50,
but he felt his medical profession too
noble to be valued in dollars. The
doctor accepted a variety of payment
methods that included trading for
eggs, butter, milk, quilts, chickens,
vegetables and fruits and sometimes
with a horse or a cow. According to
his niece, by the time of his death,
Dr. Campbell had helped bring about
4,000 children into the world.
His greatest reward was helping
the poor and he did thousands and
thousands of dollars worth of char-
ity work, Piland stated. His greatest
vision was that one day Texas would
be covered with cities of millions
of residents with every spare acre
covered with fruit and flowers and
every man and woman would be free
from pain.
Dr. Campbell worked tirelessly
to bring his vision of a hospital to
Parker County, which finally became
a reality. In 1955, the Parker County
Commissioners voted to rename
the hospital Campbell Memorial
Hospital. Today, that hospital is
called Medical City Weatherford.
As Dr. Campbell toiled through
the years, changes in science and
technology progressed by leaps and
bounds. It’s surely safe to say that if
he could see the nursery at today’s
hospital he would be both proud
and stunned. But, he didn’t think all
changes were good ones. Some of
his words from 50 years ago could
give us all cause to pause for thought
today.
Eighty or 90 years ago, Dr.
Campbell said in 1948, the pioneers
were satisfied to travel at three miles