Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-09-22
sDOGTOls'S IDTsAGREE.
A Case that Puzzled the Whole
FacuEty---HOw u WOman'S
Life was Saved.

As a reporter for this paper sat yesterday af-
ternoon in a chamber at No. 321 Federal street,
Allegheny, listening to terrible tale of suffering
as it fell from the lips of gentle little lady,
Mrs. Milo Ingram, the daughter of Capt. Hugh
McKelvey of this city, it seemed almost too
much to believe, if the evidence had not been
close at hand to substantate every word. 1t
was but another instance of the culpable ignor-
ance of large class of practitioners of medi-
cine, who while they pretend to be perfectly ia
miliar with the minutest details of the science,
are often brought to bay by some unusually
difficult case, which they are ashamed to ac-
knowledge they do not understand The little
lady gave the names of some of the most reput-
able physicians in the two cities to whom she
had paid large sums of money for treatment
and all they had succeeded in doing MEX
ing big fees, while she grew rapidly worse. Her
troubles began about six years ago, when she
experienced a fall while while attempting to
cross a sewer drain that had just been dug. A
large swelling came on her right side, which
rapidly spread, became very much discolored,
and caused the most intolerable pain. She sent
for the leading physician of Allegheny, who
summoned consultation of prominent physi-
cians and surgeons, who united in pronouncing
it a case of malignant cancer, and they told her
it was incurable She next consulted a we'll
known cancer doctor of Kittanning, under
whose treatment she remained six months. Her
case not manlesting the slightest Improvement
she experienced the most exquisite torture all
the time. Her relatives took her to Rome,
| New York, where she remained for two years
under the care of Dr. Kingsley. He pronounced
it rose cancer, and although he failed to cure
her, he very much relieved her sutferings. He
also pronounced her ease incurable. The flesh
| of her breast was eaten away down to the ribs,
the breast bone was laid bare, and the disease
made its way upward. causing the breast to be-
come detached from the wall of the chest, hang
| ing loose from above. After awhile this healed
partially, and the disease made its appearance
I in her limbs, with even ten-fold greater viru-
| lenoe, not only eating away the flesh, but at
| tacking the bones beneath. 1t affected both
| limbs, and then '-e out on her head and face,
affecting her eyes, making her almost blind,
and causing her face to swell out of all its for
! mcr likeness Her mind was affected, and at
| last her death became only a question of time.
A very reputable herb doctor pronounced her at
deaths door.
At this juncture her friends were told of some
remark liable recoveries effected by DIR. Hartman
and without any real hope of benehtng hei
they determined to see if his skill would be OF
any avail in her ease The very first time he
saw her he pronounced her disease to be Scrof
ua said there was not particle of cancer, a:
the other doctors had called it, about her, anc
at once put her under treatment This wa
four months ago, on the 9TH of last February
She commenced improving at once, and to-day
is healthy woman. All her sores are healed