. Journal - American Medical Association. .By whatever manner or means it was accomplished the 328 MEDICAL FORGERIES—VAN METER. Jour. A. M. A. incident serves as an object les^^on whicli proves that themere possession of a diploma, without proper authenti-cation and careful scrutiny, as a prerequisite to admis-sion to state board examination is not all that advocatesof such a statutory provision claim. His career in Montana as a self-styled specialist inabdominal surgery came to a climax when he performedhis first celiotomy on Mrs. A. J. Schumacher, the wifeof a prominent mining engineer of Bu
. Journal - American Medical Association. .By whatever manner or means it was accomplished the 328 MEDICAL FORGERIES—VAN METER. Jour. A. M. A. incident serves as an object les^^on whicli proves that themere possession of a diploma, without proper authenti-cation and careful scrutiny, as a prerequisite to admis-sion to state board examination is not all that advocatesof such a statutory provision claim. His career in Montana as a self-styled specialist inabdominal surgery came to a climax when he performedhis first celiotomy on Mrs. A. J. Schumacher, the wifeof a prominent mining engineer of Butte. She promptlydied and her husband came near bringing Herr HagenBurgers earthly career to a sudden and tragic end. Itwas not so ordered, however, and with aching bones andbandaged wounds he left the state between suns. A few months later he made his debut in failure as an abdominal surgeon had veered him toanother line of practice. At that time he was overflowingwith ]icrsoiial proclaniatinns of his skill and experience. Fig. 9.—A. Edward Ryetzel as Dr. George E. Cooke when ar-rested In Chicago by the United States postofDce authorities, June6, 1903 (reproduction from a newspaper picture). as a medical practitioner, disclaiming any predilectionfor the surgical side of the profession. His specialhobby was a great invention of a room in which the at-mospheric pressure could be controlled. By such a con-trivance he proposed to procure for pneumonia patientsin high altitudes an environment exactly the same asproduced liy the natural barometric conditions at sealevel. He lost no time in calling on the secretary of theState Medical Board, ostensibly to inquire of the re-quirements for licensure, hut in reality, like the ordinaryl)unco man, to size up the secretary, because, as wasafterward discovered, he was thoroughly informed as tothe provisions of the Colorado law. He claimed to bea graduate of Kiel and Wurzhurg. but stated that asthere was some uncertainty abo
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