The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-15

Salt Lake Tribune: In your issue of
May 10Th there appeared a London dis"
patch reporting the arraignment of DR..
George Adcock for manslaughter.
1t Is unfair TO mention Christian Sci
ence In connection with this case with
out giving all the facts relating there
to. DR.. Adcock was n licensed physi-
clan who had retired from practice.
The charge against him was based
upon the assumption that he was called
to treat the case medically; that as
medical man he knew the needs of the
patient, and that he had neglected him
from a medical standpoint AS 81 mat
ter of fact and as the evidence shows,
DR.. Adcock was not employed either as
O physician or as a Christian Science
practitioner, but as nurse TO help
Major Whyte's servant In dressing his
wounds We leave the court to decide
upon the merits of the charge, but we
must insist that it be distinctly under
stood that Adcock was not Christian
Science practitioner in the Whyte case
DR.. Adeock professed an interest in
Christian Science, but he was not
practitioner Of Christian Science nor a
member Of Christian Science church.
The facts show conclusively that
Christian Science is not censurabe for
the part it played in this case. Major
Whyte, the patient, was suffering from
science does not profess to be able to
heal Major Whyte told the first
Christian Scientist who visited him in
the army hospital at Osborne that the
doctors could offer him no hope of i'm
proving his condition. In view of this
it seems strange that one Of the spe-
cialists who testified at the trial. when
asked if Major Whyte could have been
saved if he had continued to receive
ance, "Oh, certainly Major Whyte
had suffered agonies, and so intense
was the pain that he mad been given
frequent injections of morphine, and
had openly expressed his wish to com
nit suicide. From the first Christian
Science treatment he improved. All
pain ceased and he began to sleep
healed completely in ten days, and the
other in six weeks; and the autopsy
showed that a new bone had begun to
form at the seat of the fracture. He
became cheerful and withdrew his
resignation from the army. He con-
tinued to gain and finally thought he
could care for himself and dismissed
his practitioner, He was subsequently
treated for short periods by two other
practitioners, but he was not under
Christian Science treatment when he
died.
In January, 1906, small bed-sore
became worse, an abscess formed and
blood poisoning set in. Major Whyte s
servant wanted some one with medical
experience to assist him in dressing the
abscess, and at this point DR.. Adcock
was called in, neither as a physician
nor as Christian Science practitioner,
but as nurse, which Office he per-
formed conformity with the patient s
servant. Major Whyte's mother arriv-
ing at this time from Ireland. believ
ing her son TO be dying, sent for q
physician. Major Whyte died three
days later.
While Major Whyte was at Osborne
three other men were there with him
suffering from serious diseases. One,
an officer in the artillery, was suffering
from paralysis, and the doctors had
given him up as incurable, He came
under Christian Science treatment and
is now cured, and has returned to his
regiment The second had been badly
smashed up in Somaliland, was inter
nally injured and had a tube in his
side. Christian Science cured him; the
wound is healed and he is quite we'll,
He was q doctor and has since testified
to the value of Christian Science, in
which he believes The third was suf
fering from consumption, He also is
now well.
Such notable successes as these
should not be lost sight of when what
seems to be a failure of Christian Sci
ence is brought prominently before the
public.
(Signed) ALFRED FARLOW,
Publication Committee First Church of
Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.
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