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

! for me. One day my husband went
to DR.. Hurley's Office and asked him
if he was going to take care of me
or if he was going to let me rot and
stink. The doctors reply was, come
up with more money and won't let
her rot and stink We could not get
him to come at all When citizen
of this community investigated my
condition, knowing the doctor would
not care for me, reported the case to
Prosecuting Attorney Campbell of
Hoquiam, who sent in a disintereSted
physician, Doctor Hunter of Ho.
GUAM, Wash, who on learning the
incision was wide open and discharg-
ing puss and my abdomen was badly
swollen and almost blood poison The
outside dressing had never been
changed from the time of the opera
ton, which was then about three
weeks, and the blood stains on the
dressings were all dry and hard. Dr..
Hunter on taking notice of it remark
ed that was carlessness and I needed
immediate care. (This incision was
about seven inches long).
DR.. Hunter went to DR.. Hurley and
told him he had better get on the
East Side and attend to that patient
he and Watkins had left lying there
RI )v;, h,, "a
Hurley he was sent there by Prosecut
ing Attorney Campbell and that there
was going to be trouble if they did
not take care of me. DR.. Hurley got
mad at DR.. Hunter for investigating
the case and gave him a cursing, tell
ing him he was butting in where he
Dr. Hunter left my residence DR..
Hurley appeared on the scene again
the first time for several days.
During my time of suffering the
question was asked by a neighbor,
what he thought was Mrs. Beames
trouble and he pointed to his head
and said the trouble is all here. Then
this neighbor asked DR.. Hurley why
did you cut her open in the abdomen.
if the trouble was all in the head.
He also told another neighbOr
had epileptic fits.
In this incision was three little
places that gushed out which looked
like intestines. DR.. Hurley picked up
pair of old scissors and wanted to
clip them. | would not let him use
those scissors because they had not
been dsinfected. ! told him if it was
necessary TO perform a slight opera
ton to take surgical Instruments and
clip them and not use those old dirty
scissors for | would not let him. I'M
less he did. DR.. Hurley came daily
for one week and dressed the wound
This wound was never healed up
by Hurley and Watkins but formed
a thin stripping which was like it's
sue paper at the lower part of the
incision while the top of the incis-
ion, the length of common pin, was
wide open and dschargine puss Dr.
Hurley then taking off the dressing
and binder said that would soon be
able to go to work and that did not
need his SERVICES any longer The
time he discharged me | had never
been able to be out of bed. and il
was then about ten weeks after the
operation. The weight of my body
was too much for the strength of my
feet to stand and after | was able to
sit up | was compelled to slide
chair from side to side to get about
the house for about two weeks. after
which took crutches. | was still
suffering agony and the top of the
wound discharging puss. We We're
obliged to 90 elsewhere to get medi- |
cal attention.
On the 9th of April. 1910, went |
to Spokane, Wash, and some weeks |
later the incision formed assesses,
my abdomen being badly swollen. gave
me much distress. was obliged to |
call a physician, Dr. Roark. was call.
ed and after a careful examination,
informed me that my condition was
q very serious one and that l needed