Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-02-20
elected out here to do?
| DR.. Blackburn: The pathological

Governor Blease: Was you elected
out here to teach anybody medicine?
DIR. Blackburn: No, sir.
Governor Blease: Is there any
medical department here where peo-
pie learn medicine?
DR.. Blackburn: No, sir.
Governor Blease: How long were
lyou here before you were permitted
to begin your duties?
DR.. Blackburn: 1 do not remember
whether II was the first day or wheth-
er 1t was the next day.
Governor Blease: How long were
lyou out here before you were permit
ted to do the work you were elected
to do. without being interfered with
DR.. Blackburn: l consider that
have been interfered with all the time.
that interference?
Dr. Blackburn: I think DR.. Saun-
ders has. DR.. Saunders a moment
ago referred to chemicals, that she
said 1 said, We used in the Wasser-
man test. The Wasserman Is cero-
logical test all the way through, and
chemicals are not used other than
making up the reagents. / did not
intend to make the statement she
says l made, II did, and l do not
think 1 did, that chemicals had any
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action. But the chemicals, some OF
them over there are marked 1900 and
Dr. Saunders herself made the state
ment in the laboratory one day that
those chemicals were some she used
here several years ago. They are over
there with the labels on them. That
Is what I had reference to.
Chairman Carothers: DR.. Fulmer,
we would like to hear from you II
you have any statement to make.
DR.. Fulmer: I suppose I have less
to deal with than the majority l was
elected to take charge Of the colored
females. which we all know Is in the
old building. learned before 1 was
Iappointed there that there was some
friction among the medical stan. l
decided at the time that II was elec-
| ted would attend to the duties OF
the old building alone, and not inter-
fere with any Of the other members
which have done up until the pres
ent time, and therefore haven't come
| in contact with any Of the medical
staff as the others have.
| Governor Blease: Since you election
out here have you seen DR.. Cooper
out here?
DR.. Fulmer: Yes, sir.
| Governor Blease: Tell how you saw
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he was doing.
DIR. Fulmer: Governor, 1 couldn't
tell you who he was with. l Would
only see him over here at the new
building, coming in and out.
Governor Blease: How often was
he over here?
DR.. Fulmer: OF course Icouldn't
state positively. Sometimes 1 would
see him over here every day or two,
and then again 1t would be something
like a week.
over there in this laboratory where
DR.. Blackburn Is supposed to WORK.
| DR.. Fulmer: No, sir.
| Governor Blease: Did you see him
in that direction?
DR.. Fulmer: No, sir; would only
see him up here.
Governor Blease: Do you know
whether he ate here or not?
| DR.. Fulmer: No, sir; I don't know
that. You see, my line was down In
the old building. I stayed down
there as much as possible-only came
up here to transact any business or 10
answer correspondence.
Governor Blease: When was the
last time you have seen DR.. cooper
up here?
| DR.. Fulmer: I saw his machine out
here-not to see him, but l know MS
machine, and l saw his machine out
here, as we'll as I remember, ABOUT
week ago, as we'll as I can recollect.
| Governor Blease: DR.. Blackburn
was elected at the same time you
were?
| DR.. Fulmer: Yes, sir.
| Governor Blease: And since yours
and DR.. Blackburn's election you
have continually seen DR.. cooper
here?
DR.. Fulmer: Yes sir.
| Chairman Carothers: Any other
statement?
| DIR. Fulmer: In regard to the sheep,
etc. of course I have heard rumors,
but the only thing I have seen In tnat
| line was one afternoon, 1t was some
one up at the stable back OF the COL
ored female department doing some
thing-what they were doing don't
know-but some one who had on a
red dress, shawl, or something around
them, was holding the door, and un-
derstood there were others In there
doing something to the sheep. That
is as far as got with the sheep tale
didn't see it.
Governor Blease: Do they have any
departm cnt out here to study meol-
cine?
DIR. Fulmer: Not as I know Of.
Governor Blease: Are the superin-
| tendent and the medical staff appoint
ed to come out here and attend pa
tients or to come out here and STUDY
medicine?
| DIR. Fulmer: To attend to patients.
Governor Blease: Not to take med
ical courses?
DR.. Fulmer: No, sir.
Governor Blease: Do you know any
place out here where 1t Is required
that DR.. Saunders take a medieal
lcourse-is that part Of her duties!
i DR.. Fulmer: No, sir.
DIR. Babcock: DR.. Fulmer, you
have been in the institution long
| enough to know that in the natural
order Of things there is bound to be
some friction. And in big institution
like this there Is always more or less.
| Have you ever discussed the fact or
DR.. Cooper's leaving here with any
outside people?
DR.. Fulmer: No; don't recall that
did.
DR.. Babcock: You never mentioned
1t to a soul?
DR.. Fulmer: Not that I remember.
i DR.. Babcock: You never mention
ed it to your family?
DR.. Fulmer: I don't know that l
have, because they don't understand
the line of medicine. and don't see
that should mention 1t to them.
DR.. Saunders: Isn't 1t legal and
right for any of us to do the best we
can, and improve ourselves, and do
everything we can to bring up our de-
partment?
Chairman Carothers: would an
swer, yes, ma'am.
DR.. Saunders: The work l have
done along clinical lines has been
simply to find out how far syphilis
plays a cause of insanity in the white
woman's department, and to treat 1t;
1 went over the department and found
five and one-half per cent positive
syphilis, and 1 have treated them all,
and I think 1t legal and right. I have
taken up from year to year different
lines of work-systematic work In
the wards. This is no new thing.
Last year we had typhoid fever, and
l had planned for another year still
another branch, hoping each year to
develop another line-and when we
start, then we keep up with it. Vac
cination against smallpox and typhoid
are now routine. The Wasserman
test Is just like a physical examina-
ton for i'll patients. 1t is no dispar-
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