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Under Medicine ("Fatal Tonsillectomy") in the Aug. 26 issue of TIME, you reported the death of Walter P. E. Freiwald Jr., "from too much ether in his lungs and brain," after the administration of an anesthesia by Dr. Charles T. Markert, osteopathic physician...
...fact that a jury in the Bergen County (N. J.) Court of Quarter Sessions fully exonerated Dr. Markert of responsibility for this fatality. The director of anesthesia for Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, and the assistant medical examiner of New York City both testified at the trial that Freiwald's death was caused by status lymphaticus, and that the patient did not die from the cause stated in your article...
Osteopath Charles T. Markert of Ridgefield Park, N. J. was a good friend of Mr. Walter Freiwald, an accountant in nearby Bogota. So when Mr. Freiwald's 22-year-old son Walter Jr. came home from Plattsburg military training camp last July with infected tonsils. Osteopath Markert, himself only 25, offered to spare the family the expense of a hospital and surgeon. He invited his boyhood friend and schoolmate, Osteopath Thomas O. Maxfield, 27, of Maplewood, to come to his office and remove Walter's tonsils...
...morning last week, Walter, a junior in Rutgers University, went to Markert's office with his father. Mr. Freiwald waited while the two osteopaths placed Walter on an operating table. Markert, assuming that he was within the law by acting as Maxfield's assistant, gave the boy ether. Maxfield then began to snip out the right tonsil, he said...
Suddenly they noticed that young Freiwald's pulse was slowing down. Frantically the two men applied artificial respiration, but to no avail. At 10:04 they called the police for oxygen tanks and a Pulmotor. In six minutes the police arrived. For two hours they worked over the boy, until the county physician pronounced him dead. The osteopaths insisted on continuing resuscitation until finally, a little after 3 o'clock, they gave up. Walter Freiwald had died from too much ether in his lungs and brain...