The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-12-11
Rose Jacobs VS.. Clinic DAM
age Suit Ends in Cir
cult Court.
SAY HEALTH IS GOOD
Physicians Examining Plain
tiff Tell Court Mrs. Jacobs
Stomach Is o. X.

| DR.. G.. +. Adams, witness for the
defense in the case of Rose P. Jacobs
VS.. DIR. R. o. Grigsby, ct al, co-part-
ners in the Kenosha Clinic in circuit
court, testified that Mrs. Jacobs stom-
ach is all right at present, that her
condition shows that she made good
recovery from the operation, and that
she appears fairly we'll nourished.
! Mrs. Jacobs is suing for damages of
/ SIS 900 because a silver capsule con-
tanning about $4,000 of radium slipped
| into her stomach while DR.. Grigsby
was treating her for nasal trouble on
November "a, 1922, at the Kenosha
Clinic.
The case closed this noon in cir
cult court and went to the jury.
The radium was taken out of Mrs.
Jacobs stomach that day at the Ke-
nosha hospital following a special OPP
Grafton fer that purpose, and it is the
lcontenticn of the plaintiff, represent
ed By Attorney r. V. Baker that the
destructive agent of radium did dam
age in the patients stomach during
the two hours it was there, and also
that she had suffered further damage
because of the operation, all of which,
| it is alleged, resulted from the negli-
gence of the physician at the clinic.
Mrs. Jacobs complained that she suf-
fered pain and had trouble with her
digestion of food.
| The defense witnesses heard in
court Thursday afternoon sought to
bear down the plaintiffs contention
that she had suffered in health be-
cause of the radium accident. DR..
Richards, surgeon for the clinic who
performed the operation at the hos
pital to get the radium, said that he
| examined Mrs. Jacobs yesterday and
found her in good physical condition.
DR.. Adams followed on the witness
stand. He said that from his exam
nation, made Thursday also, he would
say that Mrs. Jacobs is quite
healthy"
81 found no adhesion of the stomach
| tissues" he said. "The abdominal
walls were pliable. Under the region
of the scar where the incision had
been made at the time of the opera
ton, the patient did not seem to be
sensitive. Just above the scar the
patient did complain on percussion.
She was sensitive on the right side
in the vicinity of the gall bladder;
also in the vicinity of the appendix.
There was a marked odor from the
nose and throat. She appeared fair.
w we'll nourished / should say that
she had made good recovery from
the operation"
DIR. Richards declared that in ex-
nloring into Mrs. Jacobs stomach for
the radium, they were not concerned
about value of the radium which IS
protected by insurance.
The capsule which the patient swal-
lowed was contained in fve-tenths
milometer silver screen, the capsule
measuring threeeighths Of an inch
in length, with diameter Of about
one-sixteenth Of an inch. There was
about $4,000 worth of radium contain
ed in that tiny capsule, he said.
The string attached to the capsule,
which was used so that the radium
could easily be located and pulled out
Of the nostril as used, was six and
one-fourth inches long when taken out
Of Mrs. Jacobs stomach at the time
OF the operation.
Again the string played its part.
The defense sought to show that Dr..
Grigsby had shipped off the string so
that it was only about an inch and a
hale long, and that through this alleg-
&c negligence the string, capsule radi-
nm and all did the disappearing act
from the nostril to the stomach of
the patient in the chair. The de-
Tense contended that it was over six
inches along.
Pauline Lippert, nurse at the clinic
testified for the plaintiff. She said
the string was about "one and one
half inches" long. Clara Huxhold, SUI
pervising nurse at the operation of
Mrs. Jacobs at the Kenosha hospital
said that when the capsule of radi-
UNI was extracted from the patients
stomach it had attached string mot
more than two inches long"
The argument in the case lasted for
the greater part of the morning to-
day.