Defence of Dr. R.W. January against the attacks of Professor Eve, and others of the medical faculty.

  • January, R. W.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Defence of Dr. R.W. January against the attacks of Professor Eve, and others of the medical faculty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rue] in the extreme. Should I cure this lady, and Dr. McDowell is ery sanguine *s to the result of my treatment, provided the general health of his wife is not loo far gone, the suppuration is very abundant from the large cavity out of which the cancer has been taken, which * ibjl^ie the most healthy person. Will Dot the cure, if made, notke that -'H< norable medicine feel rather unpleasant? I wili not m -nth-ii v <• name of that officious Doctor, for fear that he might be- unpopular with ihe ladie.°. I mention this particular case, as the pro if is at hand, also to show the public tha1; there is a combin- or: among a certain class of our Professor's ' Regular practice ut t w| ich he cannot have any correspondence) to siop patients •~ ilv-v p't-.s through Nashville arid elsewhere. There is scarcely a [■a'ieiit thai arrives here, but informs me that thV-r s wire made at ..'r,vw. every stopping pl^ce to urn him hack, or induce him to ap |i v els< wh-f for help VV'.-te I to give every circumstance connect- ii wiili the < tl. i:> to itj .iv my practice, as rtltted to me by my pa- t '-nis, it vv.iul'i r< ijn r- h I:ir,c volume to C' n'ain the facts. J would mfo»m Processor Eve that I do not stand alone in depreca- he u-e o( il.e kni'e m lis Regular practice And as he has 'xktii it upon ! imstlf to >orce me before the public, I hope he will g ant me lite piiiileye to c*)l his, and the attention of the afflicted iNrticular'v, t > ihn opinions and experience of men whose learning H-,d s-tanding among i> ei:r»l men wi 1 compare favorably wiih that i Professor Eve I) . Gumming, when speaking on the subj-cl of ise ol the knite, <ajs: The man who wontonly wields the ■> oody kuifr. f,.r the t*«ke «-f < xperience or vain display of his adroit- ;i-s~. is a human savage, in whose breast soft pity m ver dw< It. I* ••tick strong epnhe's are applied to the man who wishes to make ; v peiiments, hojvng thereby to accomplish some good for mankind, what ought to he said ••' the man who has the experience, who has ed M^aiu *nd a/on. and finds that the result is the sain.'.' no i: ire tffeced 1 w..uul a.-k Dr. Eve if he has not operated on h ! idy's lirea.-t since he w-e'v-d Dr. Dudley's letter, statin*, 'He n. \yr removed a sc:rrhus hreast but with recurrence of the disease? • nd that »lie he ha- kept caicinonoatous action in check for \eai\- hy st\ere abstinence, lt*d never seen it cured. Notwithstanding