Newspaper excerpt from "Walled Lake traces its roots back to 1825
Indian resort still restful haven":
Dr. James M. Hoyt settled In Commerce in 1839 after graduating from Geneva Medical College In New York. Two years later, he settled In Walled Lake. Here, he established his practice out of an apothecary shop on Liberty Street. It is recorded that "there is no citizen of this village community who was esteemed more highly as a man and physician." The doctor supplied his own medicines. When he was unable to obtain the medicines, he was compelled to seek domestic remedies. For quinine he made a tea from poplar and ironwood bark; for calomel, he made an extract from butternut bark; for astringents, he made a decoction from the inner bark of the white and yellow oak; for nervine, he used the root of the Lady slipper; and for opium he used assafoetida.
The physician was a prominent man In the county and leading citizen of the village community. He served as supervisor of the township, township clerk, school inspector and state Senator. The Sixth Senatorial District, largely Republican, elected him, a lifelong Democrat, on his merit as a state Senator. Doctor Hoyt was chairman of the committee on asylums In the Senate.
(Source: West Oakland (MI) Press Gazette, Thursday, September 6, 1979, p. E1-E2)
Indian resort still restful haven":
Dr. James M. Hoyt settled In Commerce in 1839 after graduating from Geneva Medical College In New York. Two years later, he settled In Walled Lake. Here, he established his practice out of an apothecary shop on Liberty Street. It is recorded that "there is no citizen of this village community who was esteemed more highly as a man and physician." The doctor supplied his own medicines. When he was unable to obtain the medicines, he was compelled to seek domestic remedies. For quinine he made a tea from poplar and ironwood bark; for calomel, he made an extract from butternut bark; for astringents, he made a decoction from the inner bark of the white and yellow oak; for nervine, he used the root of the Lady slipper; and for opium he used assafoetida.
The physician was a prominent man In the county and leading citizen of the village community. He served as supervisor of the township, township clerk, school inspector and state Senator. The Sixth Senatorial District, largely Republican, elected him, a lifelong Democrat, on his merit as a state Senator. Doctor Hoyt was chairman of the committee on asylums In the Senate.
(Source: West Oakland (MI) Press Gazette, Thursday, September 6, 1979, p. E1-E2)
Newspaper excerpt from "Walled Lake traces its roots back to 1825
Indian resort still restful haven":
Dr. James M. Hoyt settled In Commerce in 1839 after graduating from Geneva Medical College In New York. Two years later, he settled In Walled Lake. Here, he established his practice out of an apothecary shop on Liberty Street. It is recorded that "there is no citizen of this village community who was esteemed more highly as a man and physician." The doctor supplied his own medicines. When he was unable to obtain the medicines, he was compelled to seek domestic remedies. For quinine he made a tea from poplar and ironwood bark; for calomel, he made an extract from butternut bark; for astringents, he made a decoction from the inner bark of the white and yellow oak; for nervine, he used the root of the Lady slipper; and for opium he used assafoetida.
The physician was a prominent man In the county and leading citizen of the village community. He served as supervisor of the township, township clerk, school inspector and state Senator. The Sixth Senatorial District, largely Republican, elected him, a lifelong Democrat, on his merit as a state Senator. Doctor Hoyt was chairman of the committee on asylums In the Senate.
(Source: West Oakland (MI) Press Gazette, Thursday, September 6, 1979, p. E1-E2)
Indian resort still restful haven":
Dr. James M. Hoyt settled In Commerce in 1839 after graduating from Geneva Medical College In New York. Two years later, he settled In Walled Lake. Here, he established his practice out of an apothecary shop on Liberty Street. It is recorded that "there is no citizen of this village community who was esteemed more highly as a man and physician." The doctor supplied his own medicines. When he was unable to obtain the medicines, he was compelled to seek domestic remedies. For quinine he made a tea from poplar and ironwood bark; for calomel, he made an extract from butternut bark; for astringents, he made a decoction from the inner bark of the white and yellow oak; for nervine, he used the root of the Lady slipper; and for opium he used assafoetida.
The physician was a prominent man In the county and leading citizen of the village community. He served as supervisor of the township, township clerk, school inspector and state Senator. The Sixth Senatorial District, largely Republican, elected him, a lifelong Democrat, on his merit as a state Senator. Doctor Hoyt was chairman of the committee on asylums In the Senate.
(Source: West Oakland (MI) Press Gazette, Thursday, September 6, 1979, p. E1-E2)
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