Baker v. Hancock

Tbe complaint was in four paragraphs. In the amended first paragraph it was averred that the appellee was, in March, 1897, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Oampbellsburg, Washington county, Indiana; that appellant was suffering from an ailment of the nose which he supposed to be nasal catarrh, and went to appellee for treatment; that appellee negligently examined appellant’s nose and told him that he had cancer of the nose and advised him to have it treated at once, to which appellant consented; that appellee proceeded to treat *458the same, and negligently applied some local…