Sir Morell Mackenzie's Book

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 35, 16 October 1888, Page 2

Sir Morell Mackenzie's Book

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright

(PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.;

London, October 12

Sir Morell Mackenzie's book contains 21 plates showing the details of the larynx and the use of the cannula. Dr Mackenzie denies that he wounded the vocal chord in his operations, and states that Dr Gerhardt was guilty of making a false accusation against him in asserting that this was so. Dr Mackenzie accuses Dr Bergmann of WTongly diagnosing the secondary cancer, and says the death, blow was given to the Emperor on April 12, through Dr Bergmann's tube making a false passage, thus inflaming the trachea, and draining the strength of the patient, and shortening his life by ten months. The Emperor had suffered no pain until tracheotomy was performed. In cases of cancer 91 per cent, were fatal. The voice was detroyed by the operation, and a recurrence of the disease was almost certain. Dr Gcsrhiirdt's ruthless cauterising of the Emperor's throat was unexampled in the history of surgery, and was likely to make a benign complaint a malignant one.

The British Medical journal publishes a facsimile of the letter written by the late Emperor Frederick, containing the expression : " Bergmann ill-treated me."

October 14

Almost the whole of iSir F. Morell Mackenzie's book was surreptitiously given to the press, and the publishers are naturally very much annoyed. They are taking steps to discover the author of the theft of the Paris edition of the work. The B[ew York Herald first published the principal facts contained in the book.