Kirchner v. Dorsey Dorsey

Opal Kirchner, wife of a Baptist minister, living in northern Missouri, in 1934 was twenty-one years of age, and the mother of one child. She was suffering from a retroverted uterus, an eroded and encysted cervix, appendicitis, and dysmenorrhea. She consulted Dr. G-race Gray, an osteopathic physician of Kahoka, Missouri, and together they consulted Dr. George Laughlin, an osteopathic surgeon at Kirksville, Missouri. On the 16th day of February Mrs. Kirchner, her husband, and Dr. Gray, traveled to Keokuk, Iowa, and there consulted Drs. Dorsey and Dorsey, who are practicing physicians and…