The Atlanta medical and surgical journal Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: eighth day commencing ulceration of the cornea was discovered, and by the following morning part of the iris had escaped through the corneal perforation. It was ... more »then decided to remove the eye and insert a glass one. This was done under cocaine. The muscles, conjunctiva and optic nerve were found firmly united and the cat-gut had been absorbed. A. F. New York, March, 1887. TALIAFERRO AND BOZEMAN CONTROVERSY. Bozeman's Uterine Forceps—The " Button-hole"—What It Has Done For The Profession And For Nathan Bozeman. To the Editors of the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal: Gentlemen—In the March issue of your journal there appears a communication from Dr. Bozeman, of New York, which purports to be a reply to my paper upon the " Intra-uterine Tampon," published in the February issue of the same journal. By his complete silence upon the issues on which he was arraigned at the professional bar he makes a virtual acknowledgment of guilt. It is true he does make a sickly effort to show by letters from abroad that his "button-hole" was thought well of thirty years ago, but his showing is too puerile for respectful notice. If, indeed, his letters prove anything it is that he is most thought of where least known. While making no reply to my expose of the dishonorable and unprofessional methods of hoisting himself to professional notoriety and publicity, he has the unblushing effrontery to hide himself behind a labored and exhaustive effort to prove that I appropriated his uterine dressing forceps. I fear the poor man is crazy, and merits charity instead of rebuke. It does, indeed, look too silly and preposterous that I should have to deny ownership in a thing I never made the least vestige of claim to, either in writing, by word or by act. As stated in my paper, any small-bl...« less