Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — More about that Post-mortem. [ARTICLE]

More about that Post-mortem.

Editor Reiublican: Dr. “Lookeron,” gives “j'u l 1 er view of the Ma-j keever Post Morieui” in the REbuntican of Octobers, in which f»e says: “your reporter, by carelessness or design, in- j eluded several statements entirely at [ variance with the facts.” Th® astute i and truthful Doctor ’’should reccollect i that a post mortem is not made to con-1 firm some man’s opinion, but to ascer- ■ tain the cause f death in the case. Dr. 1 “Lookeron” prides himself upon the i fact that he is a “professional” man. He should bear in mind that professional men are no better than other men, unless they do better. Dr, “Eooketon,” and his partner gave an opinion, Chat one of Mr. Makeever’S lungs was gone, and the other nearly so; and, Of course, that meant that thepatient would die. Had the Doctor pdssessed the least idea that a post mortenfi would follow, he would not haVe given the opinion he did. There is where it hiitt him, and hjtf* friends. They had made a Mistake. They then concluded it best to contradict the report ol the examination, and throw dust in the eyes of the people. If Dr. “Lookeron” had enquired carefully, he would have learned that Mr. Makeever had been complaining of that “slight indigestion” about two years.

The adhesions were not between the li7er and the walls of tne abdomen, but between it and the membrane covering it. The inflammation that caused those adhesions, would cause sharp pain in that region, also pain in the shoulder and back. The tenderness existing over the liver, when the family changed physicians, led the last physician, and also the consulting physician from Chicago, to believe the cancer affected the liver also, as well as the stomach. The examination cleared that up, and made plain why it was. It is painful, to an egotistic and bigoted man, or s'et of meta, to be shown their mistakes; but it will do them good. They will, or ought to, profit by it. Others, abler than Dr. “Lookeron,” have had to acknowledge themselves in error. Your reporter still adheres to the idea that the cancer cahised death, and that the condition of the lungs had nothing to ‘fro with it. A man with one lung gone, and the other nearly so, could not go to the door and call loud enough to be heard a half a mile, nor, after he bad taken his bed, call so as to be heard in a distant part of a large house. Such, I am inarmed, was the case with Mr. Makeever. If Dr. “Lookeron” and bis “large majority of the physicians of Rensselaer 1 do not know what hypostatic congestion is, they do not know what gray hepatization is, and if they know not either, they ought to go to school and learn a little about the morbid anatomy of the lungs.

I am at a loss to know where Dr. “Lookeron” obtains his “large majority,” males he “goes behind the returns” and counts egotism, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance on his, side. The Doctor is the man who made statements “at variance from the facts,” and I think a discriminating people can now understand why he It is not the first time a medical clique has tried to run things in Rensselaer, to their own advantage, and been foiled. Their presumption and humbuggery will be shown up, the bubble punctured and the public will know who are its real friends. Reporter.