Szadiwicz v. Cantor

The jury could find that on February 6,1924, the defendant performed an operation upon the plaintiff’s intestate causing an abortion which not only destroyed embryonic fife but brought on general septicemia, a germ disease, from which after a period of conscious suffering at a hospital where on February 11, 1924, she went for medical treatment, the intestate died February 26, 1924. The medical evidence tended to show and it could be found that the defendant’s mode of treatment was very dangerous and surgically unsound because of the use of “non sterile instruments” which would be an adequate…