The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-07-14

SIMPLY d"onp : HIN 1 cave not vTitI the
| othe. dis . on th-s ID. - / revived
verbal rs Uc-ions not to 90 ur 5 1 We mt
l pevec have r eiveo "ly slch orders; i WIS not
the q ,ec We Off er 1 hat mater when We
Wen. dowl to the B-apch Iepe- Hospit2l, on
the day the pa-.ent- were di. chr ~9sd la.=ly, /
| slipped hem and examined them there was
| no other motive hat 1 know of in the d:scha-ge
OF Sumner, other than that he was fit % be Dis
| charged. Am accustomed to use n good meny
hundred kinds of medic lie In the c-spens?-y
I use ioa-de of rotc sum as every other regular
physician uses it have ordered presc- p@ons
without iod-de of DO ; I'M n hem.
(Ques :ons by Ha h)-Tne average at
tendance at lie CsPe2sa-y for SIX months hfs
been from 35to SO u, he Tine of the d~:sche-se
of the persons from tle Branch Hospial here
were pre- eat rs MAZE = The King, M. w. NJ.
| Gibson, NJ. Morau Mr.. Widems an and Mr..
Cleghora. The patients were discharged by or
der of the TO members of the Board OF Health,
Messrs. Gibsoa. Moe1ul:, Cleghorn nd Wide
mann 1 also sized the order. The persons
dischf-ged We s..ppnd and examined have
had 800 pa ems at the DISPENSE N one day
examined and presrcibei fo- hem al, 1 I'D tue
best L could L had no assistants at that time,
this was on Mech u, a yer Ego L VIZ ve-g
careful what l gave hem Tue medicine gave
l thought was sc.
TEs NOM FOR DE-aEsE.
Mr.. Dole fo- the defense argued that it rested
with the prose -u-on to show that me- ce YVES in
tended. The. prosecution have not proved ma
ice and therefore the case must be dism SD; the
publication was put forth, not for the pr pose
of creating a prejudice against Doe or F:eeh,
but for the benefit of che public.
The Court ruled defamatory words = t pima
fec;e, malicious, end it remr;us for the jug to
find whether The edi -orial ar,'cle / the Sa day
Press was de;ama DRY.
The motion to 6sm;ss the C e was over i'e1
and Exceptions teken.
DIR. Trousseau, called forthe deferse;-An a
physician holding a license to pr1ctice \ HOno-
LEU, was educated i'll Pats; have resided on
these is ands twelve years; am femilier W tn lep-
rosy eld syph is; do not recognize any ident:ty
between the two CseaSs ii is not fully known
when Syphilis commenced; it wf3 cla5sed w-Eh
skin diseases IN former years; lepTosy was in O.
duced in'o Europe upon the cetU i of the Grass
ders; it was about tle time o. the discovery OF
: me- ca that syphilis broke out in Italy; he
f1i-SypEilis treatment has gene-G'ly b=4n ul-
successful; IN the anestheGc 70 Ii L do rot be
lieve it has any effect at a | believe it is not
so contagious as some disc ses, but as much so
as SYPHILIS: when l fist ca ne % the islands /
did not believe Il to be cont 3,o1s, but from
study and observation l csCaot exple n It's enor-
nous increase here except rom contGgion; to
my mind i IS ve-y easy to define between the
two diseases. l have held the post on that
DR.. Fitch holds, nd during that time sent over
700 persons 90 the leper settlement as lepers,
and do not think / made more than two or three
mists2es; | am a member of the examining board;
Yves not present when the nine patients were
C-ScniF8eu, nave known sumner Tor Twelve
years; have seem him lately; his health was very
bad; he had leprosy; n week before Sumner was
C-sch; -ged | examined him at the hospital: tOld
him he vas ve-v much improved in hei It'll; upon
being asked about letting him CO. told DIR. Fitch
that he was the last man to let go, not on account
of his being the worst patient there, but on ac-
count of his influence amongst the natives. DR..
Trcusseau stated, on some occasions / have sent
patients to the Branch Hospital for treatment,
as somewhat doubtful; in my opinion, there is
no better way of asce.taininga patients condi-
ton than by anti-syph'tic treatment, 1 have
We seldom had a difference of opinion with
other physicians as to whether a patient had
SYPHILIS or leprosy; in my opir;on, .leprosy is
cOn>aS-Ous by incubation or abso ot;on, D-:nci-
ply by inocuiation: by simple contract of two
unabraided scc-rces 1t is no. contag Gus; l believe
segregation to be the Only means of stamping
out the disease; the Gsease has diminished in
Er-ope by s~egregatipg the lepers and Their
CHILDREN; it belongs to the zones of heat aud
cold; l DO not E1ow of any medics. authoz.ies
who consider that leprosy and syphilis ere the
same; at one tine DR.. Gross OF Philadelphia
STAGED that he en- e-SC'ned tt s opinion, bnt | do
not think he does now; l do not consider Sum |
ner "A sate man - be at la:3e; L do not profess to
be an ocr list; I saOud consider it Necessary IN
Csc o. CT ~act 20 use the opthr moscOpe; eye
operations tie considered rather { fficu t; they
requs.e a great deal of pa cti"a; cat-,fo. is not
one of the most difhcC t; the e Cre several
methods of extracting; l have es rined Green
webs eyes; III n successfr operat on the patient
has TO Wef' pecp lar glasses 4 ter: the prOpor-
ton OF successful opera OnS Is Ii 9e, Il The
hands of snlciaiists; the most su rcessful opera
tors lose an eye veIy often III ough the actions
O. the patents; have visited the By lch hospital
five or six mes: my object was = send people
to MolOkai; hooked geZera'ly over the hospital;
have seen a iG-ge nu nber of Improvements in
the conC-tion of the patients; l think DIR. Feb
has removed the s. 1hiit-c symptoms aud stuck
at the leprosy; when have had the least doubt
as to the CONDITION OF patents L have sent them
to the brunch hospita, for t,eatDent; some of
the lepers have improved in a seat de,1ee;
three or foUc months ego / thought that Mr..
Sumner was going - 6.e; the last ! me l saw
him he was We'll il health, bat a leper; 1 remem-
bered a case when the heel of a patient was
completely segregated he was cured, but he
was still II leper; he was Il leper in is blood;
have never examined the blood of a patient
in mfking a Ciagnosis; l remember the case of a
so-called ''chief > being discharged by DIR Nc
Kibben and myself; ] have no fixed method of
treatment In dee:ng with leprosy; there ere lots
of { 1gs that have the reputation of cu-;pg Ter
rosy; 1 use them; there is no such thing as cr-
ing leprosy; there is no authentic case of ''cu-e'
on record; there ere records of such all adve lced
stage of Improvement hat the patient could be
d schGrged; al most lmmed ately after my P-iv2l
on the Islands 1 commenced to study the subject
of leprosy; t-ea@ment does not destroy he con-
tf3fous nature of leprosy, IN my opinion.
To the Cor r.-Sexuel intercou Sc s, in my
opinion, the easiest method of imp ing t1e
disease; | EN- afraid that the disease CT 1 be ca.
RED by fes, mosqu toes, end other insects;
leprosy may go through a long incubation, not
iesS Iudu 81 yet - there nave E9en cases IN En-
gland of leprosy breaI'pg ont on persons who
have lived in India, but have been away for zen
years.
William Sumner CT eu. - was let 90 by al
order, believe by order OF the Board Of Hea-@l;
l am released for a certain tine; 1 am s;og
makai of the Hawf.is1 Hotel; 1 we'd pat OF the
me since being released at F:she-nan's po:1t;
went out to Wail-;E. The w-sness then e.
b :bitei is sore foot to the JUL.
CTOSS-erGmin0tiCa-I an about IS yeas old;
went to MOloke- about six yeccs ago; e-ter /
went tbere 1 grew worse. I then improved, then
grew worse, fuc Y was bind; had medicines
sent me and then grew better; have improved
steaC;ly s;nce, under DR.. F;sch's .2eatn emit; the
sore on my foot broke out since 1 CINE out of
the branch hospit..
Miss Aylett.-(The Cor not:fc1 the w-t1e:s
that she would not be compelled to answer
questions in regard to her physicc conC:t;onl--
l know DR.. Fitch; he has seen c-eatipg me with
l do not exact v re sO1lect what he
said was the matter W tn me-: he Sc d that l hed
l prosy; l I'm a school teacher: / em between 81