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Show A SiDEular Method of Treatment. A peculiar case of poisoning by a physician was that of Dr. Stephen Eot-vos, Eot-vos, in Hungary, about twenty-five years ago. Eotvos undertook to hasten the death of patients whose cases he considered hopeless by putting them out of their misery, as he termed it, with fatal drugs. He encountered no opposition opposi-tion to his peculiar methods of benevolence benevo-lence while he practiced them on people of no particular standing. But when the doctor hastened the death of a well known land proprietor named Szlavy, who was slowly dying of cancer, the relatives of the dead man presented a violent protest and demanded the prosecution prose-cution of Eotvos. The physician declared on trial he was actuated by humane motives and had merely eased the journey of his victims to the inevitable goal. This defense was not accepted by the court. Eotvos was acquitted of malice, but found guilty of homicide without malice, and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. Pittsburg Pitts-burg Leader. |
