Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-05-22

Aberdeen, Wash, April IS, 1911.
The OXygenator Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Gentlemen:
1t is with great pleasure | make
this statement. Hoping you may pub
world may know the way have been
cut and slashed and misused by those
Professionals. SO called Doctors.
will now relate my story just as
it had come about, and you can plain
~ see no human tongue can ever tell
the suffering | have been forced to
competent physicians of this vacin-
ity.
Believing my case to be one of
the worst cases of abusive surgery
the world has ever known, and one
which is certainly a disgrace to the
medical profession.
1t seems, by act of Province, my
life has been spared so as to enlighten
the world on this horrible subject
and warn humanity against the
cursedness of the surgeons knife in
needless operations, which has run
to madness for the greed of gold, and
which has endangered every human
life for several generations back. up
to the present day.
Not willfully meaning to harm any
one, but | feel it a justice | owe to
humanity by telling the Gods Honest
Truth.
In March. 1908, | was taken with a
severe pain in my right side and was
Obliged to take my bed, the pain be-
came so great | was compelled to call
q physician.
Doctor Mcdonald was called in from
Hoquiam and diagnosed the case APP
pendicitiS in acute form, saying |
must be operated on at once or |
would die. Thinking this was my only
salvation, | consented and was oper-
ated on by Doctors Mcdonald and Nc
1ntire, of the Hoquiam General hos
pital.
After the operation Dr. Mcdonald,
the attending physician. refused to
deliver the appendix after the opera
ton. saying he wished to keep them
III his possession, but would show
them to me, when asked to see them
would always find a valid excuse for
not producing them. | never did see
them and never knew if they were
ever removed or not.
Following the operation | was part
ly paralyzed through some blunder on
the part of the operating surgeon. At
times was stricken perfectly helpless
and was picked up off the floor for
many and many time and carried
TO my bed as helpless as a babe.
remained in this critical condition for
nine months.
Those physicians formerly mention
ed, advised me to go back to the hos
pital for another operation, saying
would never get well until | did and
they would bring me back the next
day well woman, saying too. that
my case was rich mans case in
stead of a poor mans. What they
wanted to operate for ! never knew,
as they would not say. Nevertheless
| did not go. After such experience
with those doctors. | felt the Almigh-
ty Dollar was of more value than
human life. 1t looked. too, being
was poor mans wife, that it matter
ed not to the doctors whether my
life was spared or not. but if | had
been rich mans wife every effort
would have been made for the re-
storing of my health.
Under the conditions | was left in
from the operation for appendicitis,
did not have the confidence to place
my life in the hands of those two
professionals again. and by me not
submitting to the knife again, they
became angry and threw all the slurs
they possibly could at me. Or. Nc
Donald took hold of me and gave me
jerk, saying TO me, Turn over there. ,
] told him could not turn, and he