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Iowa Old Press Weekly Times Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa Thursday, May 24, 1860 |
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THE undersigned have noticed with indignation the action of the
Dubuque Medical Society, and of the Iowa State Medical Society,
which has just closed its session in this city, in relation to Dr.
Horr. We understand that the cause of this action is some violation
of purely medical ethics. Inasmuch as the results of these
proceedings are to prevent the patrons of Dr. Horr, during his
absence and even in cases of emergency, from employing any other
physician who may be a member of this Society, without first
dismissing him, and also to prevent the friends of Dr. Horr who
employ members of the Society from calling him in as a consulting
physician, when they desire to do so, we, as his patrons and
friends, deem it our privilege to protest against the right of these
societies to act as they have done. Human life may be again, was we
are informed it has, sacrificed to the abstractions of medical
etiquett. We do not admit the authority of any voluntary medical
association to impugn the character or standing of a physician, by
refusing to recognize him as such, for an act which involves neither
moral turpitude nor professional incapacity. We understand also that
the act complained of has long since been retracted and reparation
made therfor by Dr. Horr.- Under these circumstances we think the
proceedings were arrogant and precipitate and impose a needless
inconvenience on that portion of the community who may choose to
employ the medical fraternity. The public cannot be expected to
enter into the technical squabbles of physicians, and may attempt to
force them on the public, as in the present instance, simply re-acts
upon those who make them the subject of comment. Our confidence in
D.r Horr as a man and a physician is certainly not impaired by the
action of these societies. Wm. McLean, W.H. Robbins, G.H. Otte, H.B. Glover, Wm. Joshua Barney, R. Edwards, F.B. Wilkie, D.W. Cram, Austin Adams, Wm. Andrew, J.B. Dorr, Alfred Tredway, J.T. Jarrett, M.W. Smith, T.A. Spottswood, James Mullin, H. Wybrant, Jno P Quigley, C.W. Arthur, L.W. Jackson, Wm Carter, Wm H Hervey, Wm B Edwards, F.V. Goodrich, John C. Higginson, J.E. Erdman, E.D. Sweet, A. Keesecker, H.J. Goff, Joseph S. H. oper, H. A. Littleton, W.W. Lake, Jno Wm Smith, H.B. Baker, C.J. Chapline, R.J. Gibbs, E. Spottswood, J. Darling, M.L. Stout, T. Belfield, G.P. Abel, A Bayliss, John D. Jennings, Francis Doyle, J.B. Lane, Horace Poole, A.H. Dillon, jr, C.C. Hewitt, John W. Taylor, Benj P Power, J.S. Covel, G.R. West, C.P. Redmond, W.D. Gatchel, P.W. Crawford, W.W. Wormwood, James Huff, W.J. Dois?n, Jefferson Farmer, Isaac Evans, C.H. Remington, Thos. Levins, H.S. Jennings, J.M. Robinson. SUDDEN DEATH - Friday morning Mr. Charles Warren, the well known Conductor on the Illinois Central Railroad, on the arrival of his train, went to his room at the U.S. Hotel in Dunleith, (where he and his wife were boarding), and found the door locked. Supposing that his wife was at breakfast, he went into the dining room, and upon inquiry learned she had not made her appearance. He immediately returned to the room, and upon forcing the door found Mrs. W. upon the bed insensible. Prof. Guilbert from this side was immediately summoned, but on arriving at the bedside he found life extinct. In the Doctor's opinion she must have died of convulsions, as she was subject to attacks of that nature. It is but a few weeks since she came to this place a bride. Mr. Warren's numerous friends deeply sympathize with him in this, his great affliction. SALE OF
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