Bishop v. Shurly

On August 18,1922, the plaintiff interviewed the defendant at his hospital in Detroit concerning the removal of the tonsils of her son Frederick, then 19 years of age. She testified:

“When Dr. Shurly came in, I told him that my son’s tonsils are affected and I would like to have them removed. He said all right and now we will have to. ask about the anesthetic, whether a local or a general. He said the local is cocaine and the general is ether. I told him I had been advised by the family physician, Dr. Douglas, who is now dead, never to use cocaine on myself or my family, not even for a tooth.…