The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-11-15
A CORRECTION.

CORRECTION.
To editors Of Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
4 Dear Sir :-In Sundays Times, Nov. 9Th,
under the obituary notice of Mr.. Hays, ap-
late residence. In it the writer described
very beautifully the disease with which
i the young man was affected-the remedies
which had been skilfnlly applied 70 arrest
its progress-its result in death, and the
I cause which, in the writer's mind, produ.
ced such consequences. The tone of the
letter reminds me OF q little boy detected
in some mischief, who, seeing his mother
approach, and fearing castigatiOn, screams
and jumps and protests that he did not do
1 it was my sister," Did the professional
| gentleman fear that his mother-the public,
| had rod in pickle for him, that he thought
it necessary to justify himself in advance
| Tn, tone of his letter would seem to war
rant the conclusion. After q sickness
rapidly better, under skilful treatment Of
course. A last effort must be made to put
his cure beyond question. Learned and
skillfu1 surgeons are called in; the writer
of the letter / should presume among the
number A most mastery operation is
performed; the young man must recover.
He is improving rapidly. Did he recover
No, he did not. Ali but it was not the
doctors fault. When was it known that
an operation of that kind had ever failed;
especially performed by such skillful gen
tlemen 1t must be the fault of some one
else. SIT wasn't me, it was my sister,"
That is it, it was the Sisters. The young
man had to be removed mp stairs-the room
was damp; he could not have a fire; he
was attacked with, pneumonia and died. "A
beautiful case made out "that it was not
me, it was my sister" The present writer
Il oh Of do tn lie
ters of the Hotel Dieu, and to the worthy
gentleman who attends them as visiting
physician. In fact he owes his life, after
God, to the tender care of the Sisters and
the skillful treatment of DR.. Boyer during
q violent attack of yellow fever last year.
larly pleased at the insinuations thrown
out against the Sisters and their iDstitu-
ton in the aforementioned letter. He
thought it would bear q little Investigation.
He did investigate it, in such way, how
ever as to create no suspicion of bis intent.
The result is before you. The young man
was removed to the second story, but as
the writer of the letter had him improving
steadily from March until September, when
the operation was performed, and from that
event until the overflow he must have then
been quite robust, and could not suffer
much from removal. But the dampDess.
If the writer of the letter wished to estab-
Jish his death by dampness he should have
kept him on the first floor; for any one who
has ever been in the Hotel Dieu and has
seen its lofty aud spacious corridors, its
commodiOus, well-ventilated. rOoms-the
equal of which it is di tficult to find in any
other hospital, will be very slow to credit
him, that there can be much daMpness in
the second floor of the Hotel Dien. The
great charge of want of fire during the over
How is equally without foundation. / found,
on inquiry, that the young man had a fire
in his room constantly, night and day and
that SO far from improving after the opera
ton was performed, he sank gradually, but
steadily, until he died. So much for the
Justice of him who styles himself "Justi |
tia" 1t is too much, perhaps, considering
the little pride that is in us all, to ask a
physician to acknowledge that he has been
mistaken in the remedies that he applies to
disease but it is not too much to ask him
not to compromise the character of limo |
cent persons by attributing to them the
cause of his failure. He certainly is badly
off, who is under the necessity of establish
ing character by defaming others, or of
e.cusing for unsuccessful practice by shift
ing the responsibility where it does not be-
long. He who is mean enough to do so,
will find, as in the present case, that he is
loser by his experiment. Honorable men |
always cry down such trickery.
The Hotel Dieu has established q char |
acter for itself second to no other hospital |
in the country. 1t numbers among its |
friends and patrons many of the most re- |
spectacle of all classes and conditions. 1t |
is one of the institutions of our city of which
all feel proud, and we must be excused if
we watch with jealousy over it's interests.
We would, then, respectfully ask MIR. Gus
titia" to hunt up some other cause for the
failure of his experiment, as We are by no |
means prepared to accept the present one.
A FRIEND OF Truth.
WTu THE NCNs.-The conclusion of this ar
ticle will be found on tue sixth page The de-