West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-10-29
THE SICK SOLDIERS.
Medico-Chirnrgicai Hospital and the
Hahnemann Homeopathic at PhiIa-
deIpbta

DR.. Geo. w. Pfronum makes
feeble but desperate effort to cor
rect some assertions, that I made
III an article, entitled more Red
Tape" published in your paper Of
Sept. 10th, with reference to the
treatment my son and others re-
ceived at the Medico- Chirurgical
Hospital.
The statements I made in that
article are all true as you will see
when you read the following reply:
DIR. Pfronum is a very sensitive
man. l remember it was he that
suggested the idea of moving NY
son after night. The reason is
very obvious.
In the first place the superinten-
dent, lady, Il do mot know her
name) positively refused to let me
see my son. When l insisted she
said 1 would have TO wait until DR..
Shoemaker came. After telling him
my business he took me up to the
ward where my son was. He did
not ask me to prescribe for him
until after l got the order from
Surgeon General Sternberg to have
him moved to the Hahneman hos
pital.
The ventilation in all the wards
was very imperfect to say the least.
The perfection of ventilation is
reached when the air of room is
as pure as that Of out doors. To
accomplish this result it is neces.
sary to allow for each person six
hundred cubic feet of space, while
ventilation is Tstill going on in the
best manner known.
The ward my son occupied was a
little better ventilated than the
other wards 1 saw, but most of the
wards were over crowded and very
poorly ventilated and as stated in
my former article, you could hardly
pass between the cots.
The doctor or any other man Of
good common sense and judgment
can see at glance that the found
ers OF that Anticipated hospital never
intended or designed that those
small wards, with low ceilings with
air entering only on one side to be
packed with patients as they were
on the 5th of September.
During that hot weather without
the tanning machines it would be
almost uncomfortable. 1 assert with
out successful contradiction that
take all the patients and nurses on
an average had not more than one.
half fresh air space, with very i'm
perfect ventilation.
[ will ask the doctor when the
health authorities made a careful
inspection? Was it while it was
crowded with sick soldiers?
My son as sick as he was noticed
the contrast in the ventilation i'm
mediately after he was transfer ed
to the Hahnemann hospital. The
Midico Chirurgical hospital cannot
be very popular in the city for
was informed by good authority,
that part of the time last summer
1t was closed for the lack of patients
1t is very true, as the doctor says
that our Therapeutics are not in &C
cord with that of the regular and
scientific school, in the treatment
OF typhoid fever, as we'll as in near
ly all diseases, did not criticise the
giving of strychnine aud turpentine
in typhoid fever when they are in
Dictated, but I do criticise and con.
denim a practice that gives
strychnine to my son, when there
was no indications of heart weak
ness, and turpentine, when there
was no diarrhoea, henIorrhage nor
and l condemn the use
OF whisky and ice packs as relics Of
barbarism. Whisky is not slim
ulant, but narcotic poison; so say
the best Psychologists. There is no
doubt in my mind but that the
treatment was aggrivating his case,
for when the treatment was
changed, in twelve hours time, the
pains had left his bowels, and his
temperature dropped from 1903 to
Io2. The statistics submitted by
the doctor OF work done in the hos.