Letter written by W.O.A. Langs and sent to Dr. Frances Proctor Ames, December 9, 1946
Title
Letter written by W.O.A. Langs and sent to Dr. Frances Proctor Ames, December 9, 1946
Subject
Letter writing
Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
Description
This is a photograph of a letter written by W.O.A. Langs and sent to Dr. Frances Proctor Ames on July 19, 1946. Langs congratulates Dr. Ames on her ninetieth birthday.
Creator
Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
Publisher
State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives
Date
1946-12-09
Contributor
Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
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application/pdf
Language
en-US
Type
Text
Identifier
RG9-12-1043_1_3_004
Date Created
2016-05-10
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Frances Proctor Ames Papers, 1882-1948 (RG 9/12/1043)
LIB-UA041
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20.3x25.4
Transcription
W.O.A. LANGS
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
Dec. 9, 1946
Mrs Proctor Frances Ames:--
Got this name [?] by mistake
your
welcome letter received this a.m.
I congratulate you on your 90th. birth-
day. My 83d. was on Dec. 2d., and I did
not have a caller. I have no near relations
now except two sisters. One has been in the
hospital 19 years with arthritis deformans.
She is 74. The other born in 1876 (centennial
year) was just moving off a farm they had
sold.
There have been four of us as M.D.'s
my uncle, myself, my brother (deceased) and
now a nephew.
The Lang tribe (from Pa) in Canada started
from very common ancestors and remained such
till my uncle (grandson of originals) studied. His
son a musician is an A.B., LL.B. Then
came next in that respect with my M.D. and a
LL.B. from a couple of correspondence schools
as a pastime. Next my brother, then his son M.C.
and his two daughters B.A.'s, B.L.S's (Library sciences).
Then a son of another bro. is a B.A. So intellect
is [that] the other side of my fathers relatives that started
off here with one styled as a major has one M.D.
and one D.D.S. and a preacher so I can recall
W.O.A. LANGS
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
We have both sides printed, same 600 Westbrooks
and 30 years later, over 900 Langs. Westbrooks came
from Mahockamac Church region in Orange Co.
Little Brittain or Newbury.
The Langs had a preacher descendant also, but
both he and the Westbrook [divi??] died quite young.
As remarked before I was forced to study for M.D.
While I could enumerate the symptoms of a disease
fairly well I could not reverse the process, name the
disease from the symptoms, satisfactorily to myself.
Then treatment in those days was very unsatis-
factory. Prof. W.H. Thomson of N.Y. Univ. said there
there were 3 disease remedies, Hg. and Iodide for
syphilis and quinine for malaria. All others
were symptom medicines. He was the smartest man
I ever listened. Very religious but scientific. Was
raised around the Mount of Olives, his father
was a missionary. He recommended a no meat
diet for epileptics because dogs + cat great meat eaters
died in convulsions. I think he was a product of
Albany medical college. So it does not seem to mat-
ter much where you studied, if it is in you. You will
be something–Peterson, Brewer and Hoyd. Of course
Brewer went to Harvard after Buffalo.
I notice Buffalo had a big spree on its centennial.
W.O.A. LANGS
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
If my writing is worse than usual it is
due to my inability to see well. Had an attack
of Herpes Zoster, that unilateral trouble, on one
side of my face and it affects the eye and haup
on. My sister had it in the hospital a few years ago.
You are quite well (I hope) [blea?d] with de-
scendants. I never was married. Every feunale
I was much taken up with seemed to me better
off the way she was than she would be with me
on her hands, ha ha ha!
Dr Heyd who wrote that article on
Surgery I sent you visited Moscow
and wrote a similar piece on Russian
communism. They have everything even
to abortion clinics. I had given the article
away or would send it to you.
Yours truly
WO Langs
I seldom sign both the O and A as I
get them both as Os or both As
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
Dec. 9, 1946
Mrs Proctor Frances Ames:--
Got this name [?] by mistake
your
welcome letter received this a.m.
I congratulate you on your 90th. birth-
day. My 83d. was on Dec. 2d., and I did
not have a caller. I have no near relations
now except two sisters. One has been in the
hospital 19 years with arthritis deformans.
She is 74. The other born in 1876 (centennial
year) was just moving off a farm they had
sold.
There have been four of us as M.D.'s
my uncle, myself, my brother (deceased) and
now a nephew.
The Lang tribe (from Pa) in Canada started
from very common ancestors and remained such
till my uncle (grandson of originals) studied. His
son a musician is an A.B., LL.B. Then
came next in that respect with my M.D. and a
LL.B. from a couple of correspondence schools
as a pastime. Next my brother, then his son M.C.
and his two daughters B.A.'s, B.L.S's (Library sciences).
Then a son of another bro. is a B.A. So intellect
is [that] the other side of my fathers relatives that started
off here with one styled as a major has one M.D.
and one D.D.S. and a preacher so I can recall
W.O.A. LANGS
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
We have both sides printed, same 600 Westbrooks
and 30 years later, over 900 Langs. Westbrooks came
from Mahockamac Church region in Orange Co.
Little Brittain or Newbury.
The Langs had a preacher descendant also, but
both he and the Westbrook [divi??] died quite young.
As remarked before I was forced to study for M.D.
While I could enumerate the symptoms of a disease
fairly well I could not reverse the process, name the
disease from the symptoms, satisfactorily to myself.
Then treatment in those days was very unsatis-
factory. Prof. W.H. Thomson of N.Y. Univ. said there
there were 3 disease remedies, Hg. and Iodide for
syphilis and quinine for malaria. All others
were symptom medicines. He was the smartest man
I ever listened. Very religious but scientific. Was
raised around the Mount of Olives, his father
was a missionary. He recommended a no meat
diet for epileptics because dogs + cat great meat eaters
died in convulsions. I think he was a product of
Albany medical college. So it does not seem to mat-
ter much where you studied, if it is in you. You will
be something–Peterson, Brewer and Hoyd. Of course
Brewer went to Harvard after Buffalo.
I notice Buffalo had a big spree on its centennial.
W.O.A. LANGS
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
If my writing is worse than usual it is
due to my inability to see well. Had an attack
of Herpes Zoster, that unilateral trouble, on one
side of my face and it affects the eye and haup
on. My sister had it in the hospital a few years ago.
You are quite well (I hope) [blea?d] with de-
scendants. I never was married. Every feunale
I was much taken up with seemed to me better
off the way she was than she would be with me
on her hands, ha ha ha!
Dr Heyd who wrote that article on
Surgery I sent you visited Moscow
and wrote a similar piece on Russian
communism. They have everything even
to abortion clinics. I had given the article
away or would send it to you.
Yours truly
WO Langs
I seldom sign both the O and A as I
get them both as Os or both As
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Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948, “Letter written by W.O.A. Langs and sent to Dr. Frances Proctor Ames, December 9, 1946,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed April 25, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/79611.