A CASE OF DOCTORS DIFFERING

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5390, 9 January 1886, Page 4

A CASE OF DOCTORS DIFFERING

With reference to the notice that appeared in our contemporary on Wednesday evening regarding a case of poisoning atDobson Town, the annexed letter, writ-teh"by7DrTKagdon-4o Dr MacCarthy on the 24th'uTt%wiMty&w some light on the situation. • -<. -";. "Brunnerton, December 24, 1885. "Sir, — This morning on paying my usual visit to Mr Muncaster,. I found that you had been called in last evening and had assumed charge of the case. *' I have only been practising about -five weeks in Brunnerton, and as this is the third occasion on which, you have thought proper to act in a most unprofessional manner, I am scarcely disposed to allow it to pass without at least expressing the thorough contempt with which I regard your ignoble conduct. I allude of course to the previous cases of George Taylor and the child of Mr Pickens.

" There can be no question whatever as to your perfect right to every patient in the district if you should be called in, but to take over a brother practitioner's case without a courteous intimation, and to make statements reflecting on the treatment and diagnosis, is not the act of a gentleman but of a "cad." " Notwithstanding the very exalted estimate you entertain of your own opinion, havlng»carefully watched Mr Muncaster since December 11, I affirm that he is suffering from enteric fever. " It is a great satisfaction to me to find how. well advised I was on settling in the 'district not to have anything to do with you. You may gas and blow to. your heart's content, but sooner or later the bubble will burst. "Meantime it is impossible for me to adequately express the profound scorn with which I regard both you and your proceedings. — I am, &c, "J. Langdon."