Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-11-28
,sABY ny DR.'s ADVICE.
Chicago Mother Is Executing Death
Sentence by DIR. 'Hasclden.

\ recent dispatch from Chicago
says:
A young mother hugged her baby
to her breast, sobbed as gasping
breath racked the child's slight frame
ana then poured from bottle dose
OF medicine and gave it to the baby.
As she did so she broke down COM
pletely.
For the drug she gave was not
such aN other mothers have given-a
soothing curative for the ailments Of
childhood~b but death potion
which brought just one day nearer to
a close little life, hopeless from the
first which is being gradually and
knowingly snuffed out ulfder the di
rection OF DR.. Harry j. Haselden, so
that its possossor may not grow. up a
helpless imbecile, q charge upon the
community.
This is believed to have been the
first time that physician deliberate
" and openly has pronounced the
death sentence on a child who other
wise would live, and left it to mo-
ther to carry out the sentence.
The mother, who daily administers
the deadly potion, that in two or
three months, will have It's final effect
Is Mrs Pauline Hodzima, who lives
In tenement in the rear Of 718 N.
May street. The child Is her second
or IN,D i,ole DlI
Her husband, Stephen Hodzima, an
employee Of the Automatic Electric
Company, earns but SIT n week and
cannot procure the services Of the
nurses and specialists who might
make the life of the child bearable If
not useful, -
Hence the death sentence.
"You see,' Mrs. Hodzima said to-
day, show hard it is for him to
| breathe. Hes we'll formed otherwise
and would bo all right were it not
for the awiui hard breathing. Oh,
love my baby, but can't bear to see
him suffer. | have been giving him
the medicine prescribed by DR.. Has
efdell, and have made up my mind 1t
is for the best
~ wonld IKE to keep, him, and 1t
| nearly breaks my heart to think of
his going. but don't want him to be
burden TO himself, always suffering.
II have had nothing but\ sleepless
nights since no was born. He cries
continually and Is unable to sit up. It
is seldom that ever get to sleep be-
fore 4 o'clock in the morning."
Dr.. Haselden's new baby problem
has stirred the medical profession,
| following his announcement that he
! was trea%inga baby, with It's parents
! consent, so that the child might die
peacefully in Il few weeks and not
live hopeless idiot, physicians and
surgeons to-day expressed violent
disapproval.
"The medical fraternity never will
accept or approve such practice, DR..
c. T.. Ehlmiston, president Of the Chi
cago Medical Association, said. "Our
associations Of course, will take no
action in this matter, because DR..
Haselden no longer Is a member, and
any action designed to- prevent such
practices must come from other
sources"
"Dr. Haselden's course is absolute
ly uniustifiable," asserted Dr. A. A.
O'Neill, former head of the associa-
tion and one of the leading members
Of the American Medical Society.
"There are ways in which pain can
be alleviated without causing the
death Of the, sufferer. No physician
has the right to cause death or, for
that natter to refuse TO prevent
death under any circumstances"
"Dr. Haselden's method, If he has
been quoted correctly, is nothing
more than taking human life in order
to make death less painful. 1t can
not be tolerated by right-thinking
| physicians"
|