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The Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal

1846; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Mary Dugan, Duportal D. Davis, D. N. Hall, John M. Krum, Sarah Waddingham, T. J. White, F. Knox, L. Henry, J. M. J. Trudeau, Wm. Carr Lane, John S. Moore, A. G. Coons, John Shore, Rob't. P. Chase, Chas. W. Stevens, W. M. McPheeters, J. B. Johnson, Ann Cox, Geo. C. Light, David Bardo, A. J. Coons, M. M. Pallen, G. T. Stith, S. Pollak, William B. Carpenter, Jas. Johnson, James Ranald Martin, William Woods, Thomas Reyburn, Stephen W. Adreon, Wm. Beaumont, B. B. Brown, C. J. Carpenter, C. J. Carpenter, Robert P. Chase,

Frontmatter: A Supplement to the July Number of the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, The Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal. Essay: Remarks of T. J. White, M. D., Sir,—In an Article, of April, 1846, Published in the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, over the Signature of "McP. ", Dr. T. J. White:— Sir: Your Note of This Morning Is before Me, and in Reply I Will State That I Have Repeatedly Heard It Asserted That You Were Instrumental in Causing Mary Dugan to Institute Suit for Mal-Practice against Drs. Adreon and Beaumont, among Those Whom I Have Heard Make This Assertion I Will Mention Drs. Reyburn and Adreon, with Regard to Others My Memory Does Not Serve Me, Physiological Table of the Muscles, Appendix, &c., The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions, by Jas. Johnson, M. D., Physician to the Late King, &c., and James Ranald Martin, Esq., Late Presidency Surgeon, and Surgeon to the Native Hospital, Calcutta, from the Sixth London Edition, with Notes by an American Physician; New York, Samuel S. and William Woods, 1846, Thos. J. White:— Dear Sir:—In Answer to Your Note of the 8th Ultime, Requesting Me to Give You a Statement of the Substance of Your Testimony in the Case of Mary Dugan Vs. Beaumont and Adreon, so Far as It Related to Your Attending on Her as Her Physician, after Her Return from the Trip She Made up the Missouri River, Dr. Thomas Reyburn. Dear Sir,— Your Letter, of July 31st, Is before Me, and Its Contents Considered, We Take This Occasion of Remark That We Were Pleased with the Proper Esprit-Du-Corps Observed by All the Medical Witness Examined, Marry Dugan, of the City of St. Louis and State of Missouri, Being Duly Sworn, Deposeth and Sayeth as Follows, Viz., Original Communications Scrofulous Ophthalmia, At the Request of Dr. T. J. White, I Visited a Patient of His Who Called Herself Mary Dugan, on the 3d Day of This Month, and Found That She Is Now Atllieted with Femoral Hernia on the Right Side, For Sale, In Reference to Charges Maliciously Made in the Late Slanderous Publications of Thomas J. White. I Beg to Offer the Following, as the Due Contradiction, Dr. T. J. White:— Dear Sir: As You Requested, I Have Recurred to My Notes of the Evidence Taken during the Progress of the Trial in the Case of Mary Dugan Vs. Beaumont and Adreon, Dr. T. J. White:—Dear Sir: in Compliance with Your Request, to State under What Disease Mary Dugan Labors, Whom We Visited with Yourself on the 7th and 8th Inst., We Do Not Hesitate to Pronounce It to Be a Reducible Femoral Hernia, Bibliographical Notices, It May Be Thought That I Have Been Too Severe upon the Two Editors Who Who Hold Control of the Journal; but When I State the Fact, That I Called on Those Editors Previously to the Publication of Dr. White's Paper, and Expostulated with Them on the Injustice and Impropriety of Countenancing Any Thing in the Style Which I Inferred Would Be Adopted by My Assailant, and That All Remonstrance Was Unheeded by Those, Gentlemen I Can Scarcely Be Censured for Any Remarks I Have Made upon Those Who Would Permit Such Tampering with That Which Every Man Holds Most Dear, Catalogue of Books on Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, Midwifery, Chemistry, &c., &c., for Sale by Samuel S. & William Wood, Pearl Street, New York, Dr. T. J. White:—In Answer to Your Note of the 29th of June, 1846, I Reply by Saying That Dr. S. W. Adreon, Some Time in July, about the 10th I Think 1840, Wrote to Mary Dugan Advising Her to Go above and the Boat She Should Take, That He Had Seen the Officers of the Boat and That Their Charges for Her Passage Was Agreed upon between Them and Himself, Formula for Extempore Gaseous Chalybeate Water, Dr. Thomas Reyburn. Dear Sir,—In Reply to Yours of 31st Ult.. Waving as Much as Possible All Feelings of Participation, Interest or Prejudice, I May Be Supposed to Have Entertained from the Forced Association into Which I Have Been Drawn in the Controversy with Mary Dugan and Others, I Am Constrained, by a Strict Sense of Duty to Myself, to You, to Community in General, and to the Medical Profession in Particular, to Say, That in My View, Your "Report" upon Mary Dugan's Case, as Published in the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, and Read before the Court in the Trail of Said Case, &c., &c., Dear Sir:—I Take This Method to State That I Saw Mrs. Mary Dugan in the Summer of 1844, in Company with Yourself and Dr. W. Carr Lane, and from Notes Now before Me Which I Then Took in the Case, I Am Decidedly of Opinion That the Most Unequivocal Symptoms of Femoral Hernia Then Existed, in Connection with Artificial Anus; and Her Own Narration of the History of the Case Confirmed This Opinion, Sir:—In Reply to Yours of the 12th Inst., I Will State in Brief That I Visited Mrs. Mary Dugan in 1840, at the Urgent Request of Rev. Geo. C. Light, Then Pastor of the Fourth Street Methodist Church in This City, That He Represented Her as an Indigent Member of His Church, in a Very Critical Situation and Who Had Been Two Days in That State without Any Medical Attendance, Record of Medical Science, Dr. Thomas Reyburn. Sir.—In Answer to Your Note of the 31st Inst., Dr. White:— Sir: I Visited Mrs. Mary Dugan in 1840, but Not as a "Volunteer Doctor;" Heard No Unprofessional Language Used by Yourself, Dr. Henry or Dr. Knox, as I Saw Neither of You There, A Supplement to the July Number of the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Dr. Reyburn. Sir,—In Answer to Your Note of the 1st …, I Addressed the Following Note to Drs. Henry, Knox and Trudeau, Dr. T. J. White:—Sir: In Answer to Your Note of the 20th Inst., I Visited Mrs. Dugan in the Summer of 1840, by Your Request, You Stating at the Time That the Case Was Dr. Knox's and Yours, Elements of Physiology, Including Physiological Anatomy, for the Use of the Medical Student, by William B. Carpenter, M. D., F. R. S., Following Professor of Physiology in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Member of the American Philosophical Society, and Corresponding Member of the National Institute of the United States, &c., &c., with 180 Illustrations. Pp. 566, Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1846, Dear Sir:—In Reply to Your Inquiry, Allow Me to Say, That It Is Not Only a Common, but a Praiseworthy Custom for Physicians Who Are Attending Extraordinary Cases, to Invite Their Brother Practitioners to See These Cases, Not Only for the Good of the Patient, but for the Advancement of Medical Science, Dr. McCabe Is One of the "Practitioners (P. 555) Referred to in the Report Who Witnessed Mrs. Dugan's Case during Its Progress and at the Request of Dr. Adreon", Frederick Maunsell, Ætat. 37, a German by Birth, Entered the Hospital Friday, July 26, On or about June 8th, 1844, I Was Requested by Mrs. Mary Dugan, on Her Return to This Place from up the Country, to Call on Dr. T. J. White to Visit Her Professionally; He Did so in Obedience to That Request, and Has Been Her Physician up to This Time, Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal July, 1846, Extract of Letter This Date, Drs. White and Knox:— Gentlemen: I Was Last Evening and This Morning Called in as a Clergyman to Visit a Poor Woman, in North St. Louis, and to Administer to Her the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Which I Accordingly Did, Appendix, I Fully Concur in the above Statement of Facts as Stated by Mr. Tabor, Dr. Thomas Reyburn. Dear Sir,—The Inquiries Contained in Your Note of Yesterday, Are Quite Proper, and I Have No Objection to Answering Them in Their Order. Backmatter: Appendix to the Supplement to the July Number of the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal.