Publication information |
Source: News and Courier Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “A Card from the Doctors” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Charleston, South Carolina Date of publication: 18 September 1901 Volume number: none Issue number: none Pagination: 1 |
Citation |
“A Card from the Doctors.” News and Courier 18 Sept. 1901: p. 1. |
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Keywords |
McKinley physicians (public statements). |
Named persons |
Matthew D. Mann; William McKinley; Herman Mynter [first name misspelled below]; Roswell Park; Charles G. Stockton; Eugene Wasdin. |
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A Card from the Doctors
Five of the Physicians Who Attended President McKinley Deny
That They Have Had Any Disagreement as to the Case.
Buffalo, N. Y., September 17.—The following statement
was given out to-night by the physicians who attended President McKinley during
his last illness:
“The undersigned surgeons and physicians, who
were in attendance on the late President McKinley have had their attention called
to certain sensational statements recently published indicating dissensions
and mutual recriminations among them. We desire to say to the press and public,
once for all, that every such publication and all alleged interviews with any
of us containing criticism of one another or of any of our associates are false.
We say again that there never was a serious disagreement
among the professional attendants as to any of the symptoms or as to the treatment
of the case or as to the bulletins which were issued. A very unusual harmony
of opinion and action prevailed all through the case.
The unfortunate result could not have been foreseen
before the unfavorable symptoms declared themselves late on the sixth day, and
could not have been prevented by any human agency.
Pending the completion and publication of the
official reports of the post-mortem examiners and attending staff, we shall
refuse to make any further statements for publication, and alleged interviews
with any of us may be known to be fictitious.
Signed: Matthew D. Mann, Roswell Park, Hermann
Mynter, Eugene Wasdin, Charles G. Stockton.