Report of the trial of an action : Charles Lowell against John Faxon and Micajah Hawks, doctors of medicine, defendants, for malpractice in the capacity of physicians and surgeons : at the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, holden at Machias for the county of Washington, June term, 1824, before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jun., justice of the court.

  • Lowell, Charles, 1793-1858.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Report of the trial of an action : Charles Lowell against John Faxon and Micajah Hawks, doctors of medicine, defendants, for malpractice in the capacity of physicians and surgeons : at the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, holden at Machias for the county of Washington, June term, 1824, before the Hon. Nathan Weston, Jun., justice of the court. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18. To the eighteenth he saith, that he should give hut little weight to such opinions, but he thinks any intelligent man compe* tent to describe the external means used by a Surgeon in reducing; a dislocated joint, such as the bandages and machinery used and the mode of operation. 19. To the nineteenth he saith that he does not know. To the last he saith that he knows nothing more on the subject than he has already stated. THOMAS WELSH. David Townsend, of the City of Boston, Doctor of Medicine, to the several interrogatories on the part of the Plaintiff, an- swereth and saith as follows ; 1. To the first he saith, that he was present at the General Hospital in this city when an attempt was made to set the thigh bone of Charles Lowell, the person here present, and was in consultation with other gentlemen relative to his situation, and examined the particular situation ; but thinks that he took no part in the operation, except by his counsel ; a sufficient number of persons were present to afford all the assistance necessary. 2. To the second he saith, that the gentlemen with whom he consulted were Doctor John C. Warren, Doctor James Mann, Doctor Thomas Welsh and Doctor William Spooner. 3. To the third he saith, that their opinion was stated to the patient by this deponent, and was as follows : that from an examination of the dislocation and the state of the limb and from his representation as to the Ungth of time since he received the injury, there could be little hope of reducing the limb, and it was stated to him that an attempt to perform that operation would be attended with extreme pain, and it rested with him to determine whether or not he would endure that, when there was go small a chance of success in the operation. He replied, that he had made up his mind to submit to it. Suitable measures were then adopted to perform the operation, which however proved wholly unsuccessful. AH the gentlemen present m consultation were of opinion, that the head of the bone was out of its socket; and indeed of this no doubt could be entertained. The gentlemen were unanimous in all the opinions expressed on the subject, and, as far as I know, in all that had been formed. 4. To the fourth he saith, as already substantially expressed, that his opinion fully coincided with those of the other gentlemen; m6 my opinion then was and still is that there was a dislocation