Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-10

Placards were posted, by the kings orders,
IN conspicuous places, in the streets, requiring
under the penalty of 1000 france, and year
OF Imprisonment for each offence, that every
physician aud surgeon, who attended any per-
son wounded on the 9th and 9th of June, should
give in the name and residence OF his patient
to the government authorities.
To this NJ. Samson, brave surgeon of the
Hotel Dieu, replied by another placard, posted
equally in public places, calling on every sur
geon to stand firm to his honor, and not to
give to the government the information de-
manded. He declared in his pacard that he
would never betray one Of his patients, and
defied the government to make him guilty Of
such a base action, and he called on all sur
geons to follow his example.
Public sympathy and good sense sided with
M. Samson, and the king did not dare to med
die with him and we never heard OF single
instance of Il surgeon Of Paris having betrayed
his patients on that occasion.
In the Hotel Dieu, Dupuytren manifested
the same honorable spirit, and he opened his
lecture room one morning with fearful tale,
and one that we all knew to be true. 'In the
Sale st. Jacques, said he, was a young man.
who was wounded on the 9th Of June. lie
had been through the thigh by musket ball.
The wound was doing well the suppuration
was healthy and there was every reason to
believe he would soon recover But unfor-
tunately, gentlemen, few evenings since, his
sister gained access to his bedside, and told
him when he recovered he would be iguomin.
iously shot, as a traitor and a rebel, and that
the hospital was guarded by the kings troops.
In a moment the suppuraton ceased he be.
came furious maniac, and died, excIaiming,
70 be ANONYMOUSLY shot
Now, gentlemen, have informed the king
that have seen service in the French armies
aud hospitals, since the revolution of '98,
and that | never before witnessed the bar
barity Of placing guards over wounded men.
to keep them to be executed when they recov.
cred from their wounds, and l have informed
the king that the Hotel Dieu is not prison,
and that will not serve as a surgeon in it,
unless the military guards are all removed
from this hospital, and l will resign my place,
sooner than remain in this Inundated posi-
ton"
This declaration was received with shouts
OF applause by the students and medical gen.
i!emen who tlironged the amphitheater OF the
hospital"
The next few DAYS beheld the gates of the
hospital closed. What was taking place we
did not know but when we were again ad.
united to the hospital and the operating room,
Dupuytren came in with grim smile of sat
lstacllon en- his c0untenance, and said, 81 have
prevailed; the king removed the troops at
once, and the moment it was done, l shuffled
the wounded, so that it will be difficult for the
king to find theG"
This declaration was received with shouts of
Joy, and Dupuytren. who, at one lime, was
suspected 10 be in favor of the government OF
Lolis Philippe, became the idol of young
medicine, and of young France.
This is plain statement of facts, "C'eSt
FhiStoire." Dupuytren proved in the end brave
as Samson!