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Show The Waltlron Cae. Editors oflkrabl: There may readily be a diversity of r -pinion with reference to the cause of the death of this woman, although as the matter now stands the testimony would appear to implicate Dr. Cram in criminal practices. It is, however, well known that the woman was an unfortunate of the town, and thoso who claim to know, assert that she was in the habit of procuring abortions abor-tions upon herself whenever the necessity ne-cessity occurred. Dr. Crain insists that when he was called to her on May loth, he fuund her su tiering Iron i cxUMisivo ulceration of the uterus, ute-rus, and constant nausea. He asserts as-serts that the ulcere wore of venereal origin, as indicated by tho character and odor; that a symptomatic tcver of a typhoid type supervened, which lacked only theattondant diarrhea to constitute true typhoid. He introduced intro-duced a spongc-tent into the mouth of the uterus to ilii-tcnd it, in order that he might cauterize the ulcers, ilis patient informed in-formed him, early in his attendance, that thecatmcuialsccretion hod failed to appear for five dayB alter it was due, and he desired to aid in its restoration, re-storation, deeming it unwiec tor the suppression to continue and thereby complicate her numerous disorders. The introduction ot the sponge wah therefore intend'd to accomplish lwlh ubjeets indicated. It is nut an unreasonable presumption presump-tion that the enormous abscess discovered dis-covered at the autopsy, with its contained con-tained pint of puss, was of itself sufficient suf-ficient to cause the revor, or blood-poison, blood-poison, by re-al "sorption, and to induct) death. Dr. Crain e talcs that if the woman was pregnant the fact was unknown to him. The catmenia was upeeih lyres ly-res torcti under the treatment ctn-ployed,;hut ctn-ployed,;hut the ir.itihility ol the stomach stom-ach was so great that the appropriate remedies for combating the lever, and for the constitutional treatment of the ulcers could not be retained. He therefore called in Dr. Vollum who agreed with him that nothing could be done to save the pationt'a life. He attributes the death to tho absorption of the pus from the aboesa, tho peritoneal peri-toneal inllammatiou and the fever, which would really seem to be sut-ficient sut-ficient to kill an ordinary person. He thinks there is a desire to rum his extensive practice and says lie proposes to fight the Hung out and test the question as to whether a professional pro-fessional man is to be destroyed by those who arc jealous of his success. Dr Crain is spoken of as a weii-, weii-, educated graduate in medicine and m possessing great medical skil . VV'o sincerely hope he will ; be enabled to vindicate himself from - the serious charge made aganist him. r That a recklcHs Jand moulded wo-r wo-r man has died during h1? attendance upon her is true, but is it not re usable us-able to conclude that the tcarluld wea-1 ecs and dangerous practices to which persons of her class expose themselves, them-selves, have proved sulliccntm themselves them-selves to bring about the fatal result . if to attend upon this class of patienU i8 to imperil tho liberty and renutn-ion renutn-ion of the medical man. few ot tho rofcssionwill be willing to prescribe lor them, and they will bo practicallv debarred h orn the advantages of medical med-ical aid. Your corespondent houiu he the last to encourage the tern we trade of the alwrtiomst but he considers con-siders it a simple act of JusLicc o a respectable medical man to call at tention to the attitude assumed b the accused and to give his version uf the case. - |