Bell I do not want to bring any medical man
in, the only gentleman that has been, you brought yourself.” The
deceased had no other medical man at that time to attend him; he
continued to get worse, and I was obliged to call up Dr. Bell one night,
and then he was very much frightened, and asked “What can be the cause of
all this?” I said, “The cause is what Mr. Webber told you would be the
result—ulceration,” and I exclaimed “Oh! good God, what will become of
the poor woman and children?” he replied, “Mrs. Shirley will take care of
them.” I begged and prayed of him not to go out of the way and leave me
with a dying man without doing something himself, or sending another
medical man; he then went up-stairs to Swann, and asked him again whether
he would take his medicine, and the man said “No—no more,” I heard him
say so. When Dr. Bell came down stairs again, he asked “Who can have set
this man against my medicine?” I said, “Go up-stairs and ask him in the
presence of witnesses”—Dr. Bell did so, and said, “My good man, who set
you against me and my medicine?” He replied, “No one but the pain the
medicine gave me.” Dr. Bell then left the house and ceased attending
him, and Mr. Webber was called in. He ordered the deceased some
medicine, and fomentations to allay pain, which were continued several
days. He called in Mr. Gibson to witness the condition of the patient,
for he was afraid the man would die in the state he was then in, and they
talked about medicine and treatment. Mr. Gibson called once more, and
said “the man was in good hands.”
“The deceased came to my house on the 11th of February, and left me
exactly seven weeks after. Dr. Bell called on me at the end of six
weeks, and said that “Mrs. Shirley insisted on the man being sent home,
and that I should not be paid more than six weeks lodging.” I said, “I
could not send him home on my own account; but that Mr. Webber would send
him home when he thought fit.” Mr. Crickmay, another surgeon had also
seen Swann several times, with Mr. Webber, and that he had nothing
further to suggest.”
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