Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

quickly followed Oy one OF annoy
ance and disappointment come over
the faces Of Gerhardt and Tobold Dr.
Wagner, on the contrary, was delighted, and
warmly congratulated me. The fragment
was placed in spirits by the latter and sub
seouently handed over to Professor Virchow
for microscopic examination"
FREDERICK THE NOBLE SPEAKS.
"Thc crown prince desired the princess to
drive to Potsdam and said he would walk
back with me. On the way he
took the opportunity to speak to
me very seriously as to his condition.
AT Ems friend had whispered to him that
Prof Gcrhardt had let drop q remark That
his malady was cancer, and he asked me
whether Gcrhardt had not done wrong If he
so believed in sending him to Ems, replied
that the Ems water certainly had not the
reputation of being beneficial to cancer pa
tients, but that possibly his physician had
been misrepresented. The crown prince
seemed extremely dissatisfied, however,
with Gcrhardt, not only for his indscretion,
but for his want of carnestness in sending
him to Ems
A SECOND REMOVAL OF GROWTH.
There was second operation on tho
larynx, after which the following dramatic
scene took place, described very forcible by
the English specialist:
when | laid aside the forceps, saying
that l would not again use them at that sit
ting, Prof. Gerhardt asked to be allowed to
use the laryngoscope and examine the
larynx. He had scarcely put the mirror in
position when he withdrew with n highly
artistic expression of horror and alarm. He
asked me to look, which | did, without see
ing anything more than q slight congestion,
of which | have spoken, and which was more
marked on the right vocal chord Gcrhardt
then asked Wagner to look, but that gentle
man did not see anything IN particular. We
then retired to my room, and Gerhardt said
that | had injured the right vocal chord. l
assured him that he was mistaken, and
showed him that with my forceps it would be
difficult, ifnot impossible, to wound healthy
chord, even if one tried to do 50. as the
blades would only cut away
projections from the chord but not Il
smooth surface like that of a
healthy larynx. Had Prof. Gerhardt in
sisted that | had wounded the epiglot tbs or
one of the parts which present projections
and edges so placed that they could be seized,
the accusation would have been less improb
able.n
MACKENZIE FEELS HIMSELF BETRAYED.
Sir Morell Mackenzie now began to see
that the German colleagues were determined
to make him the scapegoat in case of bad
result, and to share with him the honors IN
case of success. They quarreled with him
necessarily, paraded their want of confidence
in him, but would not separate themselves
from him, nor insist upon his dismissal or
their own. And he found out that previous
to his summons to Berlin Prof. Gerhardt had
used the galvano- o-cautery in the most empir-
cal way, having applied the red hot point TO
the interior of the larynx every day for a
fortnight. Concerning this he writes:
~ could hardly bring myself to believe it.
In all my experience have never heard of
anyone employing the cautery to a patients
larynX oftener than once, or at most twice
week. And | hardly know which is most
astonishing in the present instance, the en-
ergy of the physician or the endurance of the
patient. Lest any of my readers should sup
pose me to have been misinformed, or that
the statement was exaggerated, | may say
that it is now confirmed by Prof. Gerhardt
in his recent delverance. No special knowl-
edge is required to understand that delicate
organ like the larynx cannot be brutalized in
this manner with impunlty. This explained
the proneness to congestion without any ap-
pditHU CAUSE "hiSA Lttu puH-
zed me.n
MACKENZIE's DREADFUL HYPOTHESIS.
1t seems too horrible for belief but MaclIen-
ze's reputation is too great to permit him to
| hazard words lightly. What he has penned
with regard to the crown princes malady
| was written in England, after the event,
| after full reflection and with the full knowl-
edge that it will arouse the whole world and
thrill humane heart with horror. Mac
| kenNe's hypothesis is that the growth in the
| larynx of the imperial victim was not cancer
| Gus in its origin, but became so through the
| fearful remedy used SO recklessly by his ply
! sicians. This is the way he presents the case
Every one knows that local inflammation
| follows an accidental 3lrn, and there is NO
| special sanctity about a similar burn inflicted
| by physician which should prevent its being
| followed by natural consequences. II is for
| this very reason that II sufficient interval
| should always be allowed to elapse between
| the application of the galvano-cautery. No
| point in pathology is better established than
| the connection between local irritation OF
chronic structural changes induced thereby
| and the development of cancer.n
"Whether tins terrible disease be cOnstitu-
| honal or not in its origin, there can be ne
| question that the determining cause of its
| appearance in very many cases is an injury,
| such as a scar, or the persistent application
| of something that keeps the tissues iniamed
| and angry, such as jagged tooth
| which chafes the tongue Workers
in paratine and petroleum are peculiarly liza
BILE to cancer of the parts which are habit
| ually exposed to the action of those sub
| stances. 1t is well known that a particular
| form of cancer which was formerly common
| enough in England is now almost extinct
| owing to the fact that the cause which pro
| duced it has ceased to exist. When soo
commanded good price it had to be sifted,
and this operation naturally involved great
deal of friction against the skin, by which
irritating particles were rubbed into it, and
| chimney-sweep cancer was frequent result
| BY far the most common seat of malignant
cancer in men IS the mouth, because of the
hot substances that tend to irritate it. Now
as Prof Gerhardt himself tells us that a
a very early period of his connection will
the case he suspected that the affectatior
was malignant, this makes the manner il
which he proceeded to deal with it simply IN
comprehensDle.n
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