Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-16

that IL aCarcplv Spems to deserve answer,
A,ai,s, tho ronarL nj Mackenzie that he
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keehIy reefs tue uhseenli"ess VI OopVio
versy TO cause additional suffering 10 hearVs
already sorely tried, | have nothing TO say;
I'm, In resard IN the charges amounting to
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iii"'p' ao'i'' 'n"' -,
brought against MN oy the berthah uocVors
pamphlet, we, the German physicians, DO not
hesitate in saying that Mackenzic's treat
rnent of the emperor did amount 10 malprac-
tice inasmucb as both diagnosis and
treatment displayed gross ignorance
NJ m"dicittn in general His whole
iInovvIndgo of ANATOMY and pathology begins
and ends in the inrynx. In his defense he
overlooks the fact that his accusations
osoinst mo fai, to the ground in the pres
enc Of the testimony of Professors Vier.
chow and Waldmevers AT the post mortem
exomination Macknnzie,s defense caste
ait nr thn c,nnhiiit;ns Of bts German col
ino,,,,oe but Vinrrhowis nost mortem clearly
estahlisbos tho fact that Tobold. Gerhardt
and had heen nuite correct in our diagnosis
of The omperor,s malady. The one who al.
Io,ved the fttest time and opportunity of
arrestinp the enperor's disease to slim away
,vas the famous larvnxologist Mackenzie
lie NAV non whole jibraries To escape this
ronroach mt in vain Had the operation
hncn made on the Krongprrnr in Nav, as |
,visbed bis majesty Frederick 7II might lust
.s ,,,sIi ha alive now as the four
no,iants referred To in our report
,pnon ,vhom The oneratjon was so SUCCESS
FrII, nnrformcd Scioncc shows MS today
thaf every capcrr that is small and operated
unon in time can he permanently removed.
hut IL the cancer beonmes large the opera'
tien must fail, IL is entirely Mackenzie's
sn,,i, ,hat tho onerotiop was delaved until the
small "rncrr had crown into large one.
WCorha,.d, an5 Tnhnll were oui,e riyht not
IN nsc the forceps. as the history of the EN-
noror,a caso shows that the niece removed nv
Maci,on,in jed to false aedurtions Tbe niece
,vaa nronoupcod healthy while tho most NOR
tem reveaIed cancer Mackenzie's lack of
General nathoiopicai knowledoe was the
o',so 20 Wa ,nisi al,e and NJ his No. l,no,ying
,vhv profesanrs Tohold and C,erhardt ,vouii
not remove a niece of the prowtb
the charges against Gerhardt are
so absurd that thev can only find their ex
planation in Mackenzie's despair, When a
down by a bigger how. if he finds he lacks
strength To continue the struggle he screams
and spits ana abuses his tormentor. After
reading his defense am convinced he will
he deserted bv the few friends he still could
Law claim to. You ask WHY we Germans
did not as M,cl,pnzle s,,gpested make a sen.
arate renort Of our own, hut we did. II IL
the one made tn Count Stolbcrg. minister of
the kinp,s household and To Won aur tho
hodv surgoon of Emneror William II ia
renrodured in a namnhlet under the title of
the uEmuror's Illness DR. Wepnell
,yroto ont n rrnort of eur last meeting ,vith
cir Morei and IL roposes now in the minis
ter's archives I'm It YOU find the words:
.tprof Won Rerpuann most emnbatirallv
declared the disease to he cancer !,
This shows that I . iudped the case
CORRECTLY II was my misfortnno that the
arpust pa.jept and his royal consort had
more confidence in Mackenzie than in the
three German musicians This MISPLACED
early grave -
III viii not sneak of what took place IN
England or at San Reno up to the time
tracheotomy was resorted to At that time
DR. I.andgraf. of whose awkvarjness Mac
kenzie speaks so sharply. noticed the
rroyyth Of the cancer from week IN week
while the distinguished specialist. Mackenzie
failed to notice the fact until il was too late
to do any good Now about the crooked ,ut
of Bramann. my answer is this. The aeon.
sation is a lie The cut was made exnctiv
in the middle. Mackenzie told Prince
Henry, of Prussia, at San Reno. himself
that the operatlou had been admira.
blv rerformed In regard to the choce
of tubes, If the operation of tracheotomv
had to he made so far as to cause a wound
directly over the breast bone a short tube
cannot be used. Here need not defend nv
self to members of the medical profession
who know the operation "a Mac,enzie ;s
aware of himself. and his attack1ng nv
judgement in the SELECTION of the tube was
simply intended to deceive the laity the ont
siders. ANY medical man would see the
shallow pretence at once Now in regard to
the very serious charge made against ma
with regard to what took place on April I2
when am said to have ploughed a deem
wound IN the emperor's throat and caused an
Inflammation in the cellular tissues between
the trachea and the sternum. or breast bone
Again am / compelled To the belief that Mac.
kenzie failed to grasp the meaning of Yer.
chOw,s most mortem Wherein no mention oc-
ours of any such Inflammation.
"On the contrary. the cellular tissues living
bacl, Of the breast bone the interior mcdias
terum showed no evidence of any cicatriza
tion. but only of ourely normal Conditions
The most mortem showed the immediate
cause of death The inflammation of the
lungs was shown to be- of recent date
then asked Professor Virchow in tho nroS
encc of tho numerous witnosses who sii,noI
the report when This inAamm,tion of tho
lungs m,qbt have been snnnosed to have
begnn The nrofessor nswcred certainIv
moi more than two ,vnel,S 100 nrohohiw nnt
more than siv or seven davs 400 Tbis Ma.
kenzie heard He saw the diseased ling
and stiil dared to maintain that a n,nin,ia
ton of nine made eight weeks before was
the direct cansn of the emneror,s death No
medical man would believe this lie Int tho
crednIous and Ignorant among the General
nuhjic NAV and make ono ~ the Cnrmsn d.
tors resnonsibIe fnr tha sad resuIt wv
.Srhe course of tho disease IN Emroror
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