The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02
By
George F. Butler, ND.

disturb yourself about that doctor. He
didn't do it, it was an accident" And
he walked away, leaving the sergeant
struck speeches with amazement.
/ The two famous surgeons having ar
rived and made their examination OF
the patient, at once expressed them
selves as opposed to an operation.
'Why?" asked DR.. FUrniyall.
1t never has been attempted. for
one reason
Here ensued a long technical discus
sion. the result of which was that the
balance hung so even between the ar
guments for and against that no posi-
tive decision could be reached. Then
DR.. FurniVall played his last card
Gentlemen" said he. I'VE must ad-
NIT all the reasons that have been
given here why this operation should
not be attempted We must admit all
those likewise on the other side: and
we find the chances Of success and fail
ure so nearly even that. speaking gen
orally, the weight would be thrown on
the negative, and all thoughts of the
knife abandoned. It would be too full
of risk. But, aside from the fact that
1 myself feel strongly that an operation
is the only means of saving the pa
! tents sanity, if not her very life itself.
aside from the fact that I am willing to
pledge my professional reputation on
the success of an operation, performed
by me with your assistance, on the tn
NOR, or whatever it is that / believe is
invading this brain, either in the sJ-
perior or middle temporal convolutiOns
aside from all this, / have another
reason to offer, which ! feel sure, must
appeal to YOU. 1t is this: The fame
and even the life itself, of one of our
number depend on this patients sani-
| ty. Without the surgery she certainly
never can recover, and she may die. In
| that case a man you all know well and
| highly respect must, as far as I can
see into the future, pay the penalty of
crime of which he was innocent, and
the penalty is death. With the surgery
she will recover. firmly believe and
will save him by her evidence. Even
at the worst. she will be as well Off
after as before the trial unless un-
/ dreamed of conditions prevail There
/ is the case, gentlemen. The affair OF
our friend should not bias us to do 10
/ this patient what we should not do. bur
/ it cannot lack weight in these delicate
! circumstances, and for one am obliged
1 TO confess that il bears me, all things
considered, irrCristibly in the direction
of the operation. 1t is not a question
of professional ethics with me, for
should advise the trial. though there
were no outside influences. I am sure
| of success with you II may not be
So but l beg you to consider well what
have said. There is the gentleman
you will save by deciding as I have
DONE.
He threw the crumpled prescription
or the table before them as he spoke,
and as one man the group cried:
! Wellington Z? Impossible."
yes. impossible, indeed, But it is
he who is now filing the role of the
mysterious doctor, nevertheless. =
| called uD his house ane learned thar
he had left there for the hotel. In the
| janitOr's description of the voices
/ recognized his l found this Dapc~ on
! the floor behind the bed. What hap
pened here we can hardly conjecture.
But of this l am certain. as I know We
all of US are, that our friend and COM
rade, Charles Wellington, the tender
i est, warmest hearted, most upright OF
men, never wantOEly or in arger or
maIiciously pushed a man from u ten
tory window. The mystery i'll the casa
is, where can he be? What is he hid
ing for? Or is he hiding? Perhaps
come accident has also oVertaken him
These matters, however. I engage to
1 clear up later. At present our duty IS
with our Sstient"
1t was a long struggle. Each of these
men with his professional honor at
stake stood TO the last ditch for his
opinion. But finally Dr. Furnivau's
counsel prevailed. The operation was
performed with perfect success, a clot
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