The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-26
GRAVE MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS,

The State Medical Society of Connecti-
cut has recently met with case that
came near dislocating its vertebra. 1t was
the case of a refractory member of the
Old School or Allopathic organization-a
man who persisted in deyiating from the
time-honored rules of the Society. DR..
Pardee is quite prominent physician
of the regular school, residing at Nor
walk. He has for matrimonial partner
Mrs. DIR. Emily Pardee, formerly a very
intelligent and popular school teacher,
who latterly has pursued the study of
medicine, and, after attending lectures at
the Homeopathic College in New York,
was duly licensed to go into general
practice. She quickly achieved quite a
reputation, and although Mr.. and Mrs.
Drs. Pardee belonged to two entirely diff
ferent schools of practice, as man and
wife they contrived to get along quite
comfortably together.
But out of this relationship there
sprang up trouble for the senior member
of the firm, and grave charges were pre-
ferred against him by his brother doc
tors. 1t is alleged that he and his wife
sometimes swapped horses, as they were
kept in the same stable, and that he had
been frequently guilty of visiting an Al,
lopathic patient on Homeopathic horse
and that he had permitted DR.. Emily tc
desecrate the professional reputation Of
his Allopathic steed by using it to visit
some other Homeopathic patients. Again
it was solemnly averred that Dr. Pardee
having a patient-a Mrs. Gibbs-whc
had suffered broken limb, as a matter
of convenien e, sent his wife Emily one
day to remove the bandages, and that by
way of reciprocity of favors, which were
sadly unprofessional, it must be con
fessed, one day when his wife was sick
the Doctor conveyed two phials, contain
ing Spongia and Aconitum Nap. to one
of her patients who had caught a baC
cold-said patient living on the route the
Doctor had to take in making his owl
daily rounds.
1t was also by implication charged tina
Doctor Pardee sometimes consulted Mrs
DR.. Emily in regard to his cases, anc
even permitted her to consult him abou
her own. As these were probably cur
tain consultations, they could not b.
proven without putting the defendant OF
his voir dire, or calling his wife as wit
ness against her husband, for it must b.
borne in mind that it was the HUSBAND
only who was on trial. So the charge o
these two antagonistical professional
getting their heads together was dropped
There was sufficient to convict the Doc
tor without that The matter of swap
ping horses, changing bandages and de
livering medicines, settled the case. Th
result was that DIR. Pardee was formal,
expelled from the Medical Society. 4
good deal of animosity towards CDR
En-" as the lady was called by one o
the Judges on the trial, was manifested
owing to the fact that she had becom
wonderfully successful in gathering il
the best practice of the county. A DR.
Emory, of Wilton, declared that in tn
Pardee family DR.. Emily was the powe
behind the throne, and that Homeo
pathic woman doctor was in reality run
ming the Allopath. 'Let us forever stol
it." he exclaimed, in conclusion.
1t must be confessed that there are
great many grave questions growing ou