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1 Trial of a Suit, Brought in the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, by George M'Clellan, M.D. against Francis S. Beattie, M. D., for a Libel 1829

handle is hein.trials/accj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: TRIAL OP A SUIT, BROUGHT IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, BY GEORGE M'CLELLAN, M. D. AGAINST FRANCIS S. BEATTIE, M. D. FOR A LIBEL. THIS suit was founded on the publication, by the defendant, of the following passages in a pamphlet entitled, Statement of the proceedings, on the part of the members of the faculty and the trustees of the Jefferson Medical College, against Francis S. Beattie, M. D., Profes- sor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children, in that institution, viz. My professional and moral reputation was before the public, without a blot, without a stain. But what was the standing of Doctor M!'Clellan professionally and individually, who was both a prosecutor of the charge of incompetency and a witness, to whom credence was given in support of that charge? Go to the poor and unfortunate Davis at the Almshouse in this city;-ask him by what trick he was taken out of the hands of Dr. Parrish, under whose care he was daily improv- ingt-inquire of him by what means and through what instrumentality he was refi- dered totally blind, and obliged to seek a cheerless refuge witon the precincts of the Almshouse. The man's name is Davis; ask him, and he will give you the unsophisticated truth. Of Dr. M'Clellan's professional veracity I will give you one characteristic instance. The case of J. Kunkle; corner of Coates street and the Ridge road, sign of the Volunteer, must be authentic;-it is in print in the first number of the second volume of the American Medical Review, of which Drs. Eberle, M'Clellan, and N. R. Smith, are editors. From the Semerican Medical Review. In the case of a young butcher, J. Kunkle, of Penn township, from whom I removed a frightful carcinomatous mass, extending from the lip very low down into the left side of the throat, I exposed the bifurcation of the carotid and se- cured, in succession, all the branches of the external trunk, with the exception of the occipital artery. In removing the sub-maxillary gland, I was necessarily obliged to secure the facial artery close to its origin,-in dissecting out an en- larged lymphatic gland, above and behind the former, I encountered the lingual artery;-and in raising up the lower portion of the parotid gland, which also was much enlarged and indurated, I had to secure the common trunk of the tempo- ral and internal maxillary arteries. The stump of the external carotid was left at the bottom of the wound like the trunk of a tree divested of its branches. Besides all these vessels, I encountered a large vein, the one which returns the blood from the sub-maxillary and neighbouring glands, and secured it just at its 'junction with the internal jugular. The atient recovered soon afterwards, with

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