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Source: Portsmouth Daily Times Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial Document title: none Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Portsmouth, Ohio Date of publication: 12 September 1901 Volume number: 9 Issue number: 9 Pagination: [2] |
| Citation |
| [untitled]. Portsmouth Daily Times 12 Sept. 1901 v9n9: p. [2]. |
| Transcription |
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| Keywords |
| William McKinley (medical care: personal response); William McKinley (surgery); William McKinley (medical care: compared with other cases); presidential assassinations (comparison); William McKinley (medical condition: public response). |
| Named persons |
| James A. Garfield; Stephen S. Halderman; William McKinley. |
| Notes |
| The print quality of the original source (an online scanned document) is poor in parts, rendering some text difficult to read. |
| Document |
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Dr. Halderman’s attention having
been called to the fact that McKinley’s case seems to have been handled better
surgically, than was Garfield’s, replied that twenty years is a long time in
the evolution of surgery. The advances that have been made in the last twenty
years are marvelous. McKinley’s case was a more serious one than that of Garfield,
yet the physicians pulled him through in phenomenally short order. Surgery has
not yet reached the point where it can take a man to [pieces?] and then put
him together again, but it is pressing rapidly towards that consumation [sic].
The doctor is amused at surgeon’s [sic] who are
getting themselves interviewed, and incidentally getting much cheap advertising,
men who possibly passed in and out of the sick room, having done nothing, and
were spotted by the reporters.