Sir Morell Mackenzie; physician and operator; a memoir compiled and ed from private papers and personal reminiscences . of ignorance or duplicity, or both,he would have left that post-mortem chamberexultant. There was the great gangrenous wound,alleged to have been created by Bramanns firstlarge tube. ( Frederick the Noble, p. 183.) There was the site of the fatal abscess causedby Bergmanns tube which had been forcedinto the flesh of the neck instead of into thetracheotomy passage, which he could not find,but which Bramann found immediately. There were the lungs, which Bergmann haddeemed cance
Sir Morell Mackenzie; physician and operator; a memoir compiled and ed from private papers and personal reminiscences . of ignorance or duplicity, or both,he would have left that post-mortem chamberexultant. There was the great gangrenous wound,alleged to have been created by Bramanns firstlarge tube. ( Frederick the Noble, p. 183.) There was the site of the fatal abscess causedby Bergmanns tube which had been forcedinto the flesh of the neck instead of into thetracheotomy passage, which he could not find,but which Bramann found immediately. There were the lungs, which Bergmann haddeemed cancerous, filled with air to their extre-mities, and as Mackenzie had always said quitefree from cancer. GERMAN COMMENT. 181 But it is time to draw a veil over these dis-tressing details ; and I, for my part, sincerelywish that any biographer of Mackenzie couldafford to pass over lightly or in silence thoseamazing comments and accusations which theGerman doctors subsequently hurled againstMackenzies plain statement in^ Frederick theNoble, of which I have now given a sketchy,but not, I hope, an untrustworthy GEEMAN DOCTOES.
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