KILLING INCURABLES
A DOCTOR’S CONFESSION OWN WIFE A VICTIM ’ [BY CABLE—PBESB ASBN. —COPYBIGHT.] BERLIN, October 31. Before committing suicide by poison, Doctor Bukov, an eminent practitioner, sent a letter to the Public Prosecutor, confessing that he had painlessly poisoned thirty-nine of his patients who were incurables, including his wife. In the case of his wife, ho stated, he thought she was suffering from cancer. Then, after a post mortem upon her, he found to his horror, that he had wrongly diagnosed her ailment as incur i able. She could have been cured by himself. He was, therefore, filled with remorse. He then decided to die the same death as he had given to his wife.
Doctor Bukov also wrote a letter warning physicians not to abrogate the functions of Providenme.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1931, Page 5
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