The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1894-03-17
DR.. KELLOGG KICKED OUT
iha Court Su;tain; Tho Action Of ths
E,diCll Bolrd.
IT'S A SCAThlNG CRITICISM
The Doctors DOZENS, Pronounced
an Ingenious Fabrication His
License Revoked and No
stay Granted.
Special Dispatch to the s:andarL

''''iS '''Pa'Ni w 'h' 's'"t'1"
HELENA, March i6.-Juiges Hunt and
Buck in the district court this morning
rendered their decision in the appeal OF
l.. ). kellogg from the state medical
board in revoking his license on tho
ground OF unpro!cssional, immoral and
dIshonorable conduct In connection with
the hcadless body Of the child found In
the furnace at the Masonic building,
where ho has his office, about year ago.
The judges uphold the medical board aud
order KelloZg's license revoked. Kellogg's
| counsel asked for n stay OF judgment
pcnding an appeal TO tho supreme court.
The judges declined 10 grant the stay,
| saying the revocation oi the license would
take effect at once.
The decision refoFs to the finding ot the
body in tho furnace, the coroncr's Inquest,
and kellogg's statement there that the
head of the child was detached in the pro-
cess Of delivery; that the child was a little
more than three months advanced, that
the mother was the wife of n young
attorney, and that she had left the state,
and without her presence he would not
disclose her name; all Of which consii-
tuted the gist of tho charge of unprofcs-
eioHai, lhiholai anu u'suouorao4c eoh-
duct' which he was called on TO ex-
PLAIN IN this trial. The judges
then reviewed Kellogg's evidence and
that OF his witnesses. The opinion says:
Substantially his version of the affair is
as follows: He had been treating Mrs.
l.. J.. True continuously for several weeks
before March 4, 1898. About one week
before that he asceriained that she was
pregnant. March she came TO his oillce
! and upon examination he discovered that
a miscarriage was imminent. l'y his dI-
rcciion she returned home at once aud
short time afterwards he followed her.
lie found her on the bed unattended and
In labor. lie remained with her about -
minutes. with no little difficulty he re-
moved the child, scyering the head IN the
operation, and then after administering
medicine to facilitate the discharge OF the
placentn, left her. unattended and re-
turned 10 his office, taking with him tho
parcel which was deposited IN the furnace.
After waiting upon several patients in his
Office aud placing the bundle in tho iur-
mace he returned TO Mrs. True and found
her with tho placenta expelled. No one
was with her. He did not SEQ her again
that day, but In the evening sent young
woman in his Office to her with medicine.
The next day he called upon her and
found her in bed.
Several features in this narrative strike
us rs Improbable. why did ho not dis
cover the pregnancy OF Mrs. True when
he hrst examined her Tor treatment!
| Would many physicians have failed 10
make the discovery sooner? How could
he have performed SO difficult an opera
ton In SO short time. Is 1t usual or GUS
tomary for the most skilled surgeon, alone
and unaided TO do so? How could he,
physician OF l5 years experience, as hc
testified, have left woman alone, appris-
ing no one OF her condition, with the pla-
conta unexpected, after having just cx-
erted such force in tho delivery OF her
child as 10 tear its head from its body?
Could the yer lest tyro In medicine attempt
TO justify himself for carelessncss so gross
that hcmorrhage or blood poisoning en-
sued he would have had to allow an action
| Tor malpractice brought against INN to go
by default. And would woman under
such conditions he likely to be up IN
chair the next day, as her husband subse-
1 L.. saas Hal 3l....N