The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-08-27

had been performed some time in Feb
lruary by "Dr.' Joe Howard, and
doctor" Miller, from Yazoo CITY Doth
negroes, and it is stated by these gen
Itlemen that the sight which was re
vealed by the examination was one
which would shock the sensibilities OF
the most savage cannibal. 1t APP
lpeared that the operation" had beet
performed, after a fashion, but that
the doctors" after making the Incl
sion, evidently discovered their ina
lbility to remove the tumor or for rea.
sons which cannot be explained neg
lected to remove it, but instead at
tempted to sew up the wound, leaving
the woman in worse condition than
that in which she was found. The joL
was such a miserable failure that it
appears the case was abandoned by the
niger doctors, and the woman left in
the most horrible condition imaginable
since which time she has experienced
the most acute agony. The incisior
failed to heal, the sutures with which
the wound was closed sloughed out
and now the tumor has grown to such
proportions that the abdomen is laid
open and the tumor protruding there
from, decomposition OF the affected
parts evidently having been in progress
for several months.
The News prays the pardon of the
more sensitive of it's readers for pre-
senting these facts in such an unvar.
nished manner, but this is a case
wherein the bounds of propriety must
be extended in order to treat the sub
Ject in the manner which it deserves
II such cases as this are to be over
looked, or the facts concealed from
the public. how is "a correction of
the existing evils ever to be accom-
plished? Ordinarily, a negro has no
AASh| " NC diiOWcu the privilege
of pract1cing medicine than a dog
with the rabies should be en-.
trusted with the guardianship of a
young child. Tie one is as dan.
gerous as the other, and it is a pity
that the title of doctor should be con.
ferred upon a member of the colored
race, thereby lowering the dignity oil
he profession which has been con
sidered one of the most honorable
avocations of ancient and modern
lays.
How many murders have been CON-
nitted by irresponsible and vicious
negro physicians under the cloak of
heir profession may never be known,
md 1t is little short of criminal to I
Irm them with authority to 90 forth
md butcher under the guise of the
ractice of medicine, which is too oft.
N the case. True, their operations.
10 far as the south is concerned, are
confined strictly to their own race
tut this very fact makes the situation
ii the more dangerous, for in almost
very instance the patient is too ig-
lorant to realize, until it is too late,
hat he is merely being used as a
ubject of experimentation or is the
ictim of criminal oare1essness, indif-
erence, or Incompetence. Sometimes
he patient gets well; frequently he
les, or his constitution is so i'm
aired as a result of the treatment
hat he is forever a prey to the ravages
f disease and his case has become
o complicated that when a conscien-
ous white physician is finally called
e is unable to render any perma-
ent relief.
The negro is capable of possessing
ut small degree of the great charac-
eristic known as human sympathy
nd what little ne possesses he but
eldom utilities, especially in dealing
18th members of his own race. The
egro who has attained by reason of
1ucation, to a certain state of human
seems to be incapable of
njoying the refining and purifying
lfluences of knowledge, but instead,
is Unborn instinct suggests a policy /
retrogression which in most cases Il
2 Is unable to resist, even if he should /
2 so incrned. II
on is also true of the law That A a
egro should be allowed to practice c