New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-07-11
SURGEONS IN CONTROVERSY
DIR. PYLE, OF TOLEDO, REPLIES TO A
CONTENTION OF DIR. FULLER,
OF THIS CITY.

Dr. Eugene Fuller who is one Of the we'll known
surgeons. read paper not long ago at the Acad-
envy of Medicine regarding an improved method or
operating the lower part Of the body. He is the
attending surgeon at the City Hospital and the
POSTGRADUATE College Hospital. He said the i'm
provement of which he spoke was his handiwork
His claim to being the originator of the improved
method is disputed by DR.. John H. Pyle surgeon
of Toledo Ohio. and result the controversy
as to whom is due the credit for the Improvement
has become lively. and has caused some physicians
TO make known their views on the subject
DR.. Pyle has announced that the credit for the
discoveries in dispute belongs to him. On this point
he has expressed himself in forceful language In
reply, DR. Fuller has said that his address on the
operation of his method has not been correctly
read by DR.. Pyle.
Dr. Fuller has even gone a step further In adding
interest to the controversy by saying that the OPP
Grafton which DR.. Pyle has described and which
Dr. Pyle thinks DR.. Fuller has said is his Fulier 81
method Of operating Is the tb wGrS Of OF operang Of
which DR. Pyle is said to claim to be the orlginaor
DR. FIJI Fuller w SPOKE but the address printed in
full in medical paper and In this way ne learned f
ing with photographs and while he was speaking rsl
these photographs were passed among ''iose pte
ent.
Toledo. Ohio July 10 (speciaD.-When the IT'D
une correspondent called upon DR.. John II. rye
of No 2123 Ashand-ave., this evening IN references
TO a claim that he had discovered a certain SUI s
cal method several years ago. now claimed Oy Di'
Eugene Fuller OF New-York the Doctor Ior e'ni-
cal reasons declined 10 be interviewed althoush
he talked quite freely and placed all the necessary
data in the correspondents hands FOR eNafiiihatio'
The discovery referred for delicate operations
on the lower part of the body. In Inc Meuicai
Record of New-York issue OF August o. Ao'-'
Doctor PYLE gives a very concise account Vi ms
discovery which is accompanied by several nan
tones from photographs, indicating that II Is eN
actly what DR.. Fuller claims as his discover ne
date of operation April 6. 1897 ana the repo,'
is complete. DIR. Pyle personally conoucteu 1t IA
nrivate hospital at Canton. Ohio II was rePuu-
usbed In THE Philadelphia Medical Journal April
1Ssa The medical publications show that III
1885, DR. Alexander of the Bellevue STAN iaia clai
RI having discovered this same method ana AFTER
considerable controversy it was frequently referred
n nc the Alexander method Dr. Alexander idu
been personally Informed of the original olscoV-
cry He was again referred to 1t by letter III
..7be philadelphia Medical Record" November ~,
Ieorcned was never replied even noticed but
II was not referred TO again in medcai puoc"'io"S
aS m pvIe's published details in 1892 were repro
a,,ced with proper credit IN the British ineuica!
journals and in medical pubhcations OF h ~, h5cb
DR. pyle calls DR. Fuler's attention 10 ms own
discovery appears in The Journa! OF me TN
We5tcei Association" June Is, 1901. page l.iio ne
doctor fully tabishes his claims 70 pri9rlty OF
discovery by a complete file of all puoNcauohs
containins descriptions thereof. But when 1t came
other surgeons DR.. Pyle declined TO commit MINI
seH