THE ACCIDENT TO MR. M'CARTHY.
(To the Editor of the Tuapeka Times.)
Sir, — I perceive in your issue of the 11th instant a paragraph stating that the medical man who attended Mr. McCarthy, on the occasion of Ms meeting with an accident some time since, failed to detect that the arm was dislocated. Allow me to state that this is a mistake — at least, from what I can learn, the dislocation was detected, and the arm was set by the medical gentleman referred to. Subsequently, and without the knowledge of his medical adviser, Mr. M'Carthy allowed an acquaintance to remove the bandages, and to set the shoulder after his fashion. Later still, a man travelling along the road, having every appearance of being recently on the "spree," both his eyes being blacked, &c, boasted to my informant that he had just put the injured limb to rights, as the other Dr. (the amateur) had spoiled it. What wonder then that Mr. M'Carthy should lose the use of his arm after having it mauled about by a lot of ignoramus ss', and is it not most unjust to insinuate that the medical attendant was in any manner to blame. — I am, &c,
Faieplay.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 25 December 1869, Page 3
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202THE ACCIDENT TO MR. M'CARTHY. Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 25 December 1869, Page 3
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