An exposure of the conduct, of the trustees and professors of the Medical College of Ohio, and of the hospital or township trustees : in relation to John F. Henry, M. D.

  • Henry, J. (John), 1793-1873.
Date:
1833
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Credit: An exposure of the conduct, of the trustees and professors of the Medical College of Ohio, and of the hospital or township trustees : in relation to John F. Henry, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 19] rent, that mortification had extended from the thigh to the abdomen- An experienced surgeon does not now-a-days let mortification come on without knowing it. The man was dying, and expired in two hours after we left the Hospital. The Surgeon is on the one or the other horn of the dilemma. He either did not know that mortifi- cation had taken place, or he wanted to operate notwithstanding its existence. I leave him to extricate himself. Another man died oi compound fracture of the hones of the Leg, on the 11th of Febru- ary, 1833. Dr. Staughton saw this man on the 6th of Februaiy, for the last time, although, daily importuned by Mr. Linley,* and daily promising to visit him—and when the Hospital Trustees were distorting every circumstance to obtain accusations against me, Mr. Linley with that honesty of heart, which is so conspicuous a trait of his character, told them of this neglect of the surgical Pro- fessor. They acknowledged that it was not right, but the Professor had so much to atend to, they supposed he had not time ! A shameful plea of justification to screen one Professor, when they were making it a ground of complaint against another, not that he did not come when sent for, but that he was not sent for at all. I have authority for saying that the present Dean of the Faculty, Dr. Mitchell, either placed or suffered to bo placed on the Bench- es of his Laboratory, the lying pamphlet of the Township Trustees, for the purpose of distribution among the Students. Here then is the chief functionary of the College employed in the circulation of falsehood, knowing it to be such, for the records of the college contain abundant evidence that the whole so far as it implicates my- self is a tissue of falsehood, from beginning to end; and it should be remembered, that this Professor himself voted for the resolu- tion of the Faculty, acquitting me of all culpability in reference to the very charges contained in this pamphlet. He should have shun- ned all further connexion with men who had been virtually pronoun- ced slanderers by hisown vote, and by the very Trustees to whom he owed his own appointment. My defence would be incomplete, if I omitted to state, that I repeatedly urged my associates to prosecute the Miami Scheme, as the one best calculated to advance the objects of medical science, as well as the permanent interests of each one of us. I permitted my name to go to the College Board with much reluctance, con- vinced as I was by many indications, that although I presented tes- timonials of which any of their Hon. body might have reasona- bly been proud, I could expect no favorable consideration of my claims. But I felt that if they persisted in the scheme of *Much effort has been made to depreciate this young gentleman, and some how to connect him with me. He was placed in the Hospital when I was confined to my bed, and had 1 been present, my vote would have been given to another. But he proved himself competent, honorable, and uoright- and gained, as a matter of course, the rooted animosity of the Hospital Trus- tees. VVhen he left the Hospital, Dr. Staughton, as Dean, certified that he had discharged the duties of House Surgeon to the Hospital, to the satisfac- tion of the Faculty.