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Show uu CHICAGO BABY'S PECULIAR DEATH Will Receive Attention of a Jury of Physicians After Post Mortems. Chicago, Nov. 18. Science will determine de-termine tomorrow whether the death of "Baby Bollinger" was justifiable. Six of the most widely known of the medical and surgical men of the country, coun-try, forming Coroner Peter Hoffman'3 jury, will complete the Inquest begun be-gun today. They will decide whether science can uphold tho stand taken by Dr. H. J. Haiselden in his refusal to perform the operation which, he says, would have saved the baby's life. They have been asked to add in their report whether Baby Bollingor would have lived if the physician had operated. They will probably make recommendations also in regard to tho general course to be taken hereafter here-after in the cases of children born hopelessly defective. The six men selected for the famous fa-mous jury held a second autopsy In the hospital operating room. They went over the points that had been covered in the secret post mortem held the night before at the instigation instiga-tion of Coroner Hoffman. They heard the complete report of the coro-ner's coro-ner's physician, who made the first autopsy. Are Noted Physicians. The six men were Dr. Ludwlg Hek-toen, Hek-toen, professor of pathology in the Rush Medical college and the University Univer-sity of Chicago: Dr. Henry F. Lewis, Lew-is, professor of obstetrics in the Cook county hospital; Dr. D. A. K. Steele, dean of the Physicians and Surgeons' college at the University of Illlnoins; Dr. Howard Chislett, dean of the Hahnemann Hah-nemann college; Dr. Arthur Rankin, professor of anatomy at Lovola university, uni-versity, and Dr. J. F. Golden, who look the place of Dr. John B. Murphy, Mur-phy, who could not servo. According to Coroner Hoffman, the chief point he wants to confirm is whether the baby would have lived if the operation to open tho large Intestine In-testine to allow food to pass through the body had been performed.. If so. then, according to some of the legai lights with which the coroner has been conferring. Dr. Haiselden woutd be liable for malpractice. Holding up of the death certificate by Dr. Robertson Rob-ertson would follow. When the physicians emerged from their private conference after the second post mortem, they declared they had entered a compact to say nothing about their preliminary determination de-termination in the case. However. Dr. Reinhardt admitted that the first post mortem had shown more defects than had been pre-su posed and that tho second had divulged divulg-ed two other serious conditions. "The baby is not so deformed as I had thought," said Coroner Hoffman as he viewed the stark form of the little baby. But he changed his mind In less than half an hour, when even the skull of the child had been examined. ex-amined. Dr. Haiselden Relieved. "There were many more defects than we had imagined from the newspaper news-paper accounts." he declared. Dr. Haiselden was visibly relieved at the expression from Hoffman. nn. |