The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-28
,,D AND DIP. sAYRE.

DR.. Sayre hammond Retorts by
Frsuu, are is Liar and no Gentle
man FLoru the yeiO York SLn- .,
--,veToy. Aug. 25.-The retired
AS--- .,ouaral of the army, DR.. William
saTgson md who has lately besl expert
\ ID u. 18th the Brown-Sequsrd elixir OF
mem. 80 which he claims nothing IN partlc-
Ne and DR.. Lewis A. Sayre OF
ulsr T0rk. have Quarreled Openly au9 4
Ne" Iiing each other names. Ut y !,
are ea-i. I'M that DR.. Sayre IS lar ana
SAYS io .;,an DR.. Sayre has already had
no g1nIie,l lsav in a New York paper. DR..
column, adds that be wrote the letter
HsIllIl nv Dr Sayre, and is glad OF 1t, and
at'aC lL,.7, received "A copy of 1t, though ne
thaJ o % his interview that he never
rePress7n n Hammond saws further that
saw - lett out damaging parts OF tne IeIter
Sayle - - ave it to the reporter TO De
Wnen Inn that that proceeding rs only
~, iavel of a low, Level fellow.
On ., Ene > said DR.. Hammond tonight,
.AoS been vilifying me for years, o0tn IN
70 c5nntrv and in Europe, ana mas ABUSED
TINS O ~. u-,s, rnmea ured terms. We were
- the faculty Of Bellevue toSeGnoi' e auI
~ e,.o ,oted for my admission 10 II. AFTER
Saylie and went to the faculty OF the
l Ies 9iss~it of New York, he began to fight
INV va he has neglected no opportunity
NE, a. ,rro.e him the letter to show him,
sllI9 old in if. that there was too much glass
as %. house and that | would smash
III Us ~ il Yet | wrote the letter and
sun i IN him with my own hands. he
nah +bs oriC,ir al typewriter copy signed by
60 own name. He lies and he knows he
i5t y 1rben he says that he didn't receive 1t.
Al. 1aAa -
Tmailed printed copies OF the letter TO other
Ib-,sirians in New York, so that they might
tnow what was going on. NO doubt they
received them" 5 .o;d .-0,,
,uora making 81 coo or 81 800 a week out of
tha aiivirg- the correspondent asked.
..He certainly did, though he tries to deny
;trow IA said it in the San Francisco
y E,.Gn, jner because he thought it would not
lo,,,e IN nv notice. But it did. 1t came
tSrongh the clipping bureau. lie didn't
5ara to saw it here in the east when L was
in New York or Washington. He knew
+het if met him might lick him ON sight.
don't know but would yet if he weren't
physically a wreck and didn't have himself
70 blame for it. There is no doubt the in
terview in the Examiner was his. l should
know it by the ear marks"
"You let the letter strand then"
tlate little Harry Norman, and no matter
what he nav say in excavation of the act,
the moral effect of all the opinion was and
is AGAINST him. 1t is difficult. as you know,
10 Drove malpractice in genteral surgical
oDerations, but this was malpractice of
Sayres if there ever was NAL ractice, and
those surgeons know it who are familiar
with the facts"
Then he alluded to one of his Philadel-
phia confreres as echoing his impression
that Hammond is a fraud
There DR.. Hammaud went on, ''is
where the character of the man shows. He
not only misrepre,ents such an excellent
gentleman and scholar as DR.. Ewing Mears
of Philadelphia, but he leaves out of my
letter when be gives it to the papers for
pub lication, Dr. Mears' statement in my
behalf. The part left out is This:
Dr. Hammond read: you say in your
interview, to which l refer, that you echo
the opinion expressed in regard to me by
one of your Philadelphia confreres.n I'm
mediately on seeing the alleged statement
wrote to Dr. Mears, asking if he had
made any such assertion as he was reported
to have made In answer l received the
following letter:
1888 WALNUT STREET, /
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6, 1889.
DEAR SIR am just in receipt of your letter
of Aug 2, inclosng a slip cut from the Phila-
delphla Itntes,and asking whether il is authentic
or not 1t is not authentic l deem it just to
You as to myself TO state that Immediately on
my attention being called to the statement re-
ferred TO- called on the editor of the Tines
and requested him to make a proper correction.
ncloSe herewith a slip cut from the Times on
the next morning, Aug. 3. | need not assure
you that l greatly regret the publication to
winch you refer. Very respectfully, your ODE
u4THI servant, |. 4. WING MEARs.
Dr. ". A. Hammond, Washington, D. G,
The following is the extract from the
Philadelphia Times to which Or. Mears re-
fers:"
Injustice was done, bqth to DR.. Mears and to
u hammond by misconceptIon of DR.. Mears'
statement relative to DR.. Brown-Seuuard's
theory OF the elixir of life DR.. Mears was re-
ported as saying that DR.. Hammond, as is known
IN III profession, is fraud, when what he said
was that II DIT Hammond advocated tn Brown.
TTggquatu theory ne advocated scientific fraud.
Inc msconceptlon of DR.. Mears' statement. as
reported, made him appear as Offering a direct
OHenSe TO Dr.. Hammond, for whom he cherishes
great respect, as does the medical profession,
ti nH .n9 correction IS made as matter of JUS
tlce to both parties.
IL is scarcely necessary to say ANYTHING
more on this point DR.. Mears is a gentle-
man; Sayre is not. Then he talks about nv
DISMISSAL from the army" DIR. Hanmo ID
reading the "' Omitted ne mart fln'Sh ed
ms open letter to DIR. Sayre.t Every
Douy Knows that | was dismissed from the
army because exceeded my authority. and
was not careful enough about supplies and
e e because was fir nd. Did not others
~! mn IL necessary to commit those crimes in
Iie war Time, and have | not been COM
pletly vindicatedP'
nat about the chicken-bone story? DR..
cd 81 ,l-
by that means.n ''-''- ou' . HAn4
IL Is all a lie The case which Sevre
6iuMTntIy refers to he said at the time |
nau eI perfectly. A Mr.. Coffin came to
tiie from tennessee. He had facial t,aralv-
Go oHu tneianchoia. He also had dischar Ges
tioin tne ear. After about month I ex-
~ ainaue ms ear and removed a decayed
piece of bone.n " N0NaJ ou
nia ano e. 00cVor showed e tiny bottle with a
!t ,To9, ol Done in it. The bottle was marked
Et .TI Dec l, 1873" NV
.sTb tuele is the very piece of bone, he said.
after,r ril,sa went home cured. Eight months
no dorb+ u "a a doctor III Tennessee, who had
fHG ~ that no bone had been reroved
10. "Itracted no attention. The ohicken
tbat "a Is entirely different. 1t illustrates
nratt , - man believes he is cured. he
cboO33r,sur surely is. This patient was a hypo-
a cb;oi. iac who imagined he had swallowed
in b his f5no Done. and chat it had stuck first
made II f-1t s oSs ana then in his stomach, and
knew IL sore lie knew it was there
it mnst wasn't But l also knew that
never ~ w removed, or the man would
feel # 10 over over. So one day pretended to
mon A. ne ne was rejoiced. He said no com
tried S'reIic would do They had all been
micaiIv injected apo-morphia hyporder