Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-09-27

Mr.. Case-Then understand that you
lse the sound to locate the substance you
Wish to remove. And ii is necessary to
remove It, is it mott
DR.. Wolff-Nost certainly.
Ne. Case-It is q matter of life and /
1eath, is 1t not9
DR.. Wolf-Yes, SIR. If the substance Is |
not removed the patient will die.
Mr.. Case-After the spectrum, sound |
and douohe bath had been used, would 1t
be proper to use the curetts for cleaning
out the dead substance:
Dr.. Wolf-As understand you in this
case the girls temperature was 103' If
this was true 1t shows the girl was very
sick. The patients temperature in septi-
oaemia IL peculiarly erratic. When 1t goes
up so high, you can depend upon it she Ia
very sick and rapidly absorbing in her
blood the poison from the fostering mass.
I should then use the eurette Immediately
without any preliminartes. When the
disease gets to that stage it is generally too
late to save the patients life. And in my
opinion in the case IN question 1t was too
Mr.. Case-Is it at all strange that this
girl should have kept around and CON-
cealed her pregnancy as long as she was
ablea
Witness thought not, and gave various
reasons.
Mr.. Case-Then it is not out of the way
to suppose that this girl was in a most ex-
treme condition and still might have kept
aroundi
Dr.. Wola-Not at all. We very often
have girls come right off the street into our
public hospital suffering in the last stages
of blood-poisoning or septicemia- just as
this girl probably was. They sometimes
die in eighteen hours aud then again they
live three or four days.
DR.. Wolff then, at Mr. Cases request, e1
planned at great length the use of the
sound, by referring to certain standard
medical works.
Mr.. Case-Do you think there was live
fotus in that girl when che came into the
Office that night
Dr.. Wolff know that there was not
tain of it. The manner of the girls death
shows that she was saturated with the
products of the decomposing matter.
uremis would probably result. The au-
topsy did not show what 1t should have
One kidney only was examined, and was
reported to have been in diseased state
while the other may have been extensive
ly diseased. I could say many things
about that autopsy if time would permit.
CROSS EXAMINATION.
Mr.. Fox then took the witness.
Mr.. Fox-Could you determine by your
microscopical examination how long back
the abortion had been commenced
DR.. Wolf-No sir. Not accurately.
Mr.. Fox-.What drugs would have brought
a woman into such a condition as this girl
ia said to have been in!
DR.. WolH-There is no known certain
abortive. They are only secondary in
etc., are among the herbs in use. They
are not known about by regularly practic-
ing hysicians. They are principally made
use of by qusoks and old women.
Mr.. Fox-What dose of any of these
drugs you have mentioned would produce
an abortiona
DR.. Wolf-How should knows I am
not an abortionist.
Mr.. Fox-You Say they are only second
airy in their effect. What do you mean by
that?
DR.. wolff-The girl has to get over the
poisonous effect of the drug before she can
obtain any result she may desire.
Mr.. Fo1-Would you explain what you
meant by your reference in the direct ex
animation to the autopsya
DR.. Wolff can give you a number oil
points on that If you wish. In the frs
place it is impossible to diagnose the con.
ditIen of kidney twenty four hours aftsl
death, and in a medical legal case it fl
| highly reprehensible. Also DR.. Whitsi
taking the intestines and the uterus hom.
and leaving them over night before the ek
animation was made, on hot summer
night with the temperature away up, i
absurd. In many parts of his report h
tries to evade the truth. But the one i'm
portant part is his making the e1amina
examining that twenty-four hour
after death. 1t Is simply impossible t,
make an examination at that time of sn.
account, and the fact that only one kidne!
| was examined shows extreme carelessness
az the other may have been badly dis
eased.
Mr.. Fox-When this girl had Away
been in well, healthy condition and hat
not taken any pills up to within two week
before she came to New Haven, Ia it RICH
to suppose she could have been In such
prscarious condition.
| Mr.. Case-I object. You are not putin,
the hypothetical question according 70 tn
evidence, but according to your deduction
| therefrom.
Mr.. Tox-But the girls mother testified
that Maggie had always been we'll, hat
| never had a doctor and was bright sut
smiling the day she left home.
Both sides then looked up the evidenc
Of Mrs. Schloss and 1t was found that sh
testified only so far as she knew, and tina
1t was not at all certain that Maggie
bright and smiling exterior was tru
diagnosis Of her real condition.
After a few more unimportant question
Mr.. Fox abandoned the cross-exsminstion
81 won't ask one more question:" he ex
claimed.
'l'm quite sure I WON'T" rejoiped Nj
Case.
Court then adjourned to 1890 a. m. to
day.
After the adjournment DR.. Wolff su'
Medical Examiner White had little till
in which DR.. White claimed that DR.. Wolf
had misrepresented the report Of the az
topsy.
"Well," said DR.. Wolff. IT wouldn't Civ
three cents for the opiulon of a man VIII
could not tell the difference between lamb
blood and human blood upon pair o
shears"