Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — A Card from Dr. I Jones. [ARTICLE]

A Card from Dr. I Jones.

Editor Republican :+rl* replying to an item from Kankakee tp., which I noticed in the paper some two or three weeks ago, it will only be necessary to say what I know. Mr. Gibson telegraphed for me from Dunville, to come quick and reduce a fractured limb. I answered immediately that I would come. Telegram was received at 5:35 p. m. Parties present objected to the reduction of the fracture without the use of an anaesthetic, which, owing to an accident on my way. I did not have when I arrived at Mr. Gibson s, 1 examined the fracture and Mr. Gibson asked mo what I

could afford to reduce the fracture, make all necessary visits for the proper length of time. I told him that 1 wouhj charge him §25. Mr. Gibson consented and offered his services to go to town for the Ether and said ho would return as soon ns possible. Mr. Gibson started for the anaesthetic, intending‘*of course” that I should reduce the fracture when he ( returned|as much as he expected me to reduce the fracture when he telegraphed for me. Mr. Gibson was gone about three hours when he returned, but did notenter the house as one might expect a father would do in such a case. Instead of entering the house immediately oh his return from town, he called to his mother to come out into the yard that he wanted to see her. She did in company with two other ladies. This left the patienit in the house alone. While Mr. Gibson was conversing with -the ladles outside, he was overheard “by a disinterested party” to say that he did not intend for Dr. Jones to operate, that he intended to employ another surgeon, which news was carried to me immediately. I had no more than received the news when Mr* Gibson entered the house ' for the first time after his return from town” and confirmed what had been told me, by saying that he did not intend to have the operation done that night. , I asked Mr. Gibson if he got the Ether, he said yes. He would not let me have it. I argued the case with him as well as I could and tried to get permission to go on with the operation and he again refused to let me operate. After hearing of what he had said out of doors. 1 told him what I had heard and asked what surgeon he intended to employ. He acknowledged that what was told me was true by not disputing what I heard and saying he intended to employ Dr. Glozebrook or StockI told him that 1 would return home if he did not want me to operate. He consented by sayfng “well.” I informed him also that I bad come to teduce' the fracture and was ready, that if he did not intend for me to operate, for me to offer my services was all that I could do. That if he refused to let me operate while there, that I could not take the case nor any responsibility I again tendered my services and he again refused to let me operate. Mr. Gibson as good as acknowledges in the article some weeks ago in the paper, that he would not allow me to operate because he thought three or four visits of 30 miles each and the operation was not worth $25. Mr. Gibson refusing to let me operate, threw me out of any employment in that section of the country and I was compelled to leturn without operating. With malace toward none and charity for all, I remain yours &c. Respectfully, H. G. Jones, M.l). Medaryville. Ind.