A DOCTOR'S RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 26

A DOCTOR'S RECORD

Scribbled notes ' found beside the body of Dr. Harold H. Beiermeister, 53, retired physician, of Needham (U.S.A.), left to the medical profession a record of sensations he experienced for two hours before his death. On three pencilled notes, timed at 8, 9, and 9.15 p.m., the physician described the pain he endured. One of the notes simply said: "Angina? Pseudo?". Another stated he was suffering "severe pains at the point of the sternum (breastbone). 'Pain under the breastbone. Bronchial spasm.". The third said he was suffering "severe pain, three to five minute intervals, putting right hand above head gives relief." Mrs. Walter E. Goodwin, his sister, with whom he lived, discovered, his body in the kitchen oi their : .home. She returned home to/find'the doors locked. She gained entrance through a window of the house. Mrs. Goodwin, who said her brother never had complained of a heart attack, summoned Dr. Henry Gilbert. The latter pronounced Dr. Beiermeister dead, and a medical examiner declared death due to a heart attack. •