Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-08-21
INSANE DOCTOR WANTS TO
OPERATE ON ALL PAYMENTS
DR.. William II. Dabney Of Marietta
Ohio, is Committed to an Asylum
ON Application of His wife.

Ohio, is Committed to an Asylum
ON Application of His wife.
Marietta, Ohio, August 2O.-With
the commitment to Longview asylum
In Cincinnati today, of DR.. William r.
Dabney, there has come to light, says
the Enquirer in one of the most re-
markable chapters in medical history.
1T tells of the marvellous skill dis
played with the surgeons knife by an
unrevealed mailman, whose fame and
practice had grown apace while his
brain was In the throes of disorder.
. Not until the crazed surgeon had
undertaken to perform vivisection
upon a patient was it realized by the
attendants in the operating room that
madness was directing the arm scalp
ell as it sought to uncover vital organs.
DR.. Dabney entered practice in Ma
rietta about 15 years ago. He made d
speciality of eye, ear and throat oper-
tons.
The wonderful skill he displayed
carried his fame to distant points and
the large practice he had built up
here was augmented by frequent calls
10 other cities to perform difficult OPP
STATIONS.
Charged to Eccentricity.
As his income grew larger, he eS-
aabIfshed a hospital here and furnish
ed it most deliberately. He wore a
Van Dyke beard and affected foreign
manners, so that even when his pecu-
f,arities caused remark they were *
cused as due to the eccentricity of
genius. For several months previous
10 hSC mental 0n1ionrn on6 tho cfo rf-
fngTevelation of his condition, rarely
II day passed that he did not perform
two or three difficult operations. Even
while in this mental state well-known
surgeons would come here to witness
Bis remarkable skill with the knife.
1t was the death on the operating
table of an aged and wealthy farmer,
Jacob F. Schaad, that brought DR..
Dabney's career to the horrible CHI
max. Shaad had humorous growth on
his upper jaw. He consulted DR.. Dab
ney and was assured that a minor op-
Grafton would remove the disfigure-
ment, and that a permanent cure was
a matter of only a few days stay in
the hospitl. Shaad finally yielded to
the surgeons persuasion and consent
ed to go on the operating table on
Efay "a last.
Surgeon FIys Into Rage.
Beside DR.. Dabney and the nurse
there were present, when Shaad laps
ed into Inconsistencies under the in
fluence of the anaesthetic, DR.. C. B.
Pallard and DR.. j. B. Penroe. AS DR..
Dabney quietly proceeded with the
knife the two surgeons detected that
these was something wrong and both
began to demonstrate. DR.. Dabney
became very angry and finally ordered
chem from the operating room.
When the two doctors had left, ac-
eording to the story of the nurse who
had remained trembling beside the un-
conscious patient. DR.. Dabney began
TO dissect the face and throat of the
Shaad. Both sides of the
face were laid open, and deep incis-
ions made in the throat. But the
skull was shown in the dexterity with
which he avoided inflicting a fatal
wound on his living subject.
How far the craZed surgeon would
have proceeded with the dissection
cannot be told. for the Mortified nurse
ran from the room shriek'ng that DR..
Dabney was killing his patient. Her
brought Drs. Ballard and Pen |
with several of the hospital at