The sun., 1893-03-31
cor. snsrAnp.s 100000 INSURANCE.

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COR. sHspAnp's sfoo,ooo INSURANCE.
One ce-p.-y Released the Rish. the "Ree
| ORD. ssys-Renso-, Briehts Disease.
| Prom n. Ts-rdnes Record
| The euddeu and sad death OF Col Elliott T;
caused tss sy hs time femainaa nn.G
Stained plain; 'fTS The public and the family. in the
% so oses than
McBurney and McLane, two very expereneed e co.
bssJs SEss .Ssy aid On not es snss Ssss
| caution. depending upon superficial exami-
nation OF the patient and upon appearances
II "a not our intention to cloud this question
with a supernuity of medicaI terms sh but to t9
sSerea efhx ROM BTers disease o the sdnsys
70 administer ether to u patient suffering from
I'm In the published statement oyer the sigma
turos Of Drs, .McBurney and McLane there ap-
between Feb. "a aud March - several examinations
the URN, were made bu, no svdsnes a v
eoSes 90 ss sssisy and f .is.r
stcs " Col
On June 20. 1890. Col. Sherard sought to OBJ;
tain a large amount OF life insurance: and. OF
ws Ss to
be put opposite fhs Question: :" Have YOU syse eyer
sm. sn n SS as hi hs saddes
him. OS But m The following W extracts from H. dag.
noss made on the above date tell the ,tory:
Ts'sSs :sss =. t.!s S'Ssdii Ss diiaeh..
oSs., a, a ipsg,raiion: :.::::sss nsh:: ,nsS.:
Any sSs .ss 'e Or sooi slightly tAe.n.
SPECIFIC gravity urine iri;;'...: .:.. 1920
ks.ssss kk.::s"ss o! .'o"m." .:stas. As,s
hsis'I sss st .oS
A separate examination was made BY an
stnnF sna both aSo14s as sPSts sDs
4a IN s sppiesns as
iss' sPa .t s n
?f and S ss ts 81 81
McBurnsy, and McIane was made public.
sIS"ss snG Mr. ss
% to and asenea have s
the examination:
Iremember It well because Of the prominence OF the
.s
nv ssa ssss'S ;
q 70 RS '"s
S s1sns r.:ut
We then sought the medical director Of the
9SIred eRthslinl cast; are fqS9d r.
disease. are they likely to disappear at a iater
10 shst vaua In careful tst
mpfoy.msnI: me Gi.s.s. /. usually press.ssiy. ana
It ia not within the province Of this journal
to discuas the question whether the doctors in
%ss GS ss Sss al h.s h
Sithe kidneSs was ioSnd their s&aminasion
must have been OF 0 most superficial charac-
@ & e s'i e seIose TSess re-
experts. and It has fastened grave response:
bility upon those gentlemen who conducted
as nos dig
Tho company in which Col. Shepard was in
sured was the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety. j. W. Alexander. the First Vice-Presi-
dent Of tho Equitable. said last night that Col.
Shepard carried $1,000 policy In his COM
pany.
II am not sure" he said. whether he was
insured before or after the date given In tho
Record story. but think It was little while
before. would prefer not to say anything
about It until tomorrow. when I can look up
tho records and find exactly what are the
facts"
Another insurance man said last night that
no doubted II the report Of tho medical OK
aminers as quoted was exactly correct.
In cases were casts are discovered" hs
said. an insurance company won't touch the
risk with q ten.foot pole. II epithelial and
granular casts In abundance wore discovered.
1t is dollars to cents that Col Shepard could
not have succeeded in passing an examina-
tion for q 100000 policy In the Equitable
little while before The medical examiners OF
all the great companies are mon at the head of
their profession and 1t is hardly once In life
time that they make . mistake which
may inure to the damage Of the COM
pany. They are too apt to refuse
to pass applicants for insurance rather
than too ready to pass them. with tho excep-
tion Of the statement Of the result OF the ex-
a animation by the microscope. see nothing in
tho report that would indicate tho presence Of
Bright's disease. 1t could hardly be possible |
that at the time tho physicians Of the Equit- |
able examined Col Shepard there were no
casts. and later. when the other company's
men examined him. there were casts. and |
when Drs McBurney and McLane examined |
him later still there were no casts. It seems |
to mo that the cause Of Col Shepard's death |
was 'idiosyncracy.'
LENA DE MERYILLHS Warrants