THE ALLEGED MALPRACTICE SUIT OF WALSH VS. SAYRE. New York: LAW PRINTERS, No. 176 FULTON STREET. INTRODUCTION. As many members of the medical and legal professions, for whose benefit this is published, are so constantly occupied as to find little time to wade through the tedious details of the following trial, I have thought it best to give a short narrative of the facts of the case, and the results of it, that it may be understood without trouble. On the 2d of April, 1868, while examining a patient in my private office, in the presence of Dr. Neftel, of this city, Dr. S. W. Gross, of Philadelphia, and several other professional gentlemen, Dr. Paine, my then assistant, brought in a poor woman with a child about 7 years old, which had a large swelling in the left glutral region. Detecting fluctuation in the swelling, I pronounced it a chronic abscess, probably connected with diseased bone, either of the sacrum, illium, or possibly the lumbar vertibrae, but that we could better tell its origin after we had emptied the abscess, and explored it, to its source. There was a doubt expressed by some of the gentlemen present as to the accuracy of my diagnosis, and to prove its correctness, before opening the abscess I passed in an exploring needle, and pus following the withdrawal of the stylete, of course settled the question. On withdrawing the canula, I inserted a bistoury at the same opening and made an incision of half or three |