The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-19
HANSON ON The STAND
Said the Eruptions Were the
Effect of Iodine.
IN THE M'CANTS CASE
Other Physicians Testify to tie Same
Effect - DR.. Loeberger Gives
Thorough and Exhaustive Dis
cussion of Skin Diseases.

DR.. H. H. Hanson, who is charged
with violating the health ordinance by
not reporting a case which some say
is smallpox, was on the witness stand
a greater part of yesterday in the po-
thorough examination by the prosecu-
ton. He was drawn into a rather ex-
tended and exhaustive discourse on the
symptoms and treatment of smallpox
and similar diseases A great number
of authorities on the subject were read.
The witness said he prescribed iodine
and aconite for the patient and that
this drug produced the eruptions DIR.
Hanson said that he was positive that
McCants did not have smallpox.
To show the similarity of cases. the
defense called w. Pinkston, who lives
in West Broadway, and who on the
24th of last September had summoned
DR.. Hanson to attend to him. He
said he had chills and fever and all
other symptoms similar to those Nc
Giants had suffered. He had also brok-
en- out in profusOn all over his face
and body. DR.. Hanson gave him 10
dine, and soon after the admins tration
of the drug the patient went into erup-
ton. Witness had seen McCants, and
in his opinion, "he was not in it with
me for eruption said he by way of
comparing the two cases. He said that
there We're eruptions on the palms of
his hands. He suffered slight pains in
the back, but intense pain in the lower
limbs.
Miss Anna Daugherty. trained
nurse, who attended to Pinkston. tes-
tilted as to the appearance of the erup-
tlon on the patient She administered
the powders to Pinkston, and on the
morning of the third day after the
first dose the eruptions appeared. She
did not regard it as a case Of small
pox. She also said the doctor had told
her that the eruptions were caused by
the medicine.
Drs. Cayley and Molleur testified
that they had been invited by DR. Han
son to so and see McCants: that they
had made superficial examinations of
the patient and from their observation
and knowledge, based upon several
years of practice, during which many
cases of smallpox had been seen and
treated, they declared that it was not
case Of smallpox. The most impor
tant witness of the day, probably, was
DR.. 1oebinger, graduate Of two medi.
cal colleges in Germany, member of
many medical societies in this country
and in Europe, former instructor in
the University of Berlin, as professor
VI uSiIlcilCloGy. liz IldS seen iidHS
cases of smallpox. On the invitation
last week of DR.. Hanson he visited the
patient McCants and made an eXamin-
alton of his case. He pronounced it a
case of suffering from the effects of
iodine. He said that if the man had
had a case of smallpox the eruption
would have been identical all over his
body. AS it was, the eruptions were
varied in appearance. He said it was
no doubt one phase of a skin disease.
but certainly not smallpox. He went
into a very learned discourse on the
subject of skin diseases and smallpox,
and when he finished the great major
ity of the attendance in court was not
prepared to say anything about small
pox at ALL One professional man pres
ent declared that it was the most COM
prehensive, thorough and scientific
treatment of the subject he had ever
heard from a witness, expert or other
wise.
On motion of w. M. Bickford. for the
defense, court was adjourned in order
that the deposition Of the attending
sister at the hospital whore McCants
was first taken might be procured The
case will be resumed at 2 o'clock this
a fternOon