Obit: Barton, Josephine (? - 1893
Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: BARTON
----Source: CLARK COUNTY REPUBLICAN PRESS (Neillsville, Wis.) 03/30/1893
Barton, Josephine ( - 26 APR 1893)
Mrs. Antone Barton died on Thursday
afternoon, April 26th, 1893, at the age of (couldn't read), and a
few months, in Minneapolis, where she went on Monday to have an
operation performed for some female trouble from which she was
suffering and while under the influence of anesthetics. She
regained consciousness enough before her death to speak of her
husband and children.
A telegram was sent to Mr. Baton informing him of his wife's sudden
death, which on account of the lateness of the hour did not reach
here, and was sent over by a messenger from the junction. Mr.
Barton accompanied the messenger back by horse and buggy, and
arrive just in time to catch the 2 o'clock trine, arriving in
Minneapolis at 7 o'clock Friday morning. He returned here with his
wife's remains on Saturday morning.
The funeral was conducted from the Catholic Church on Monday at 9
a.m., and the body was interred in the Catholic Cemetery.
Mrs. Barton, to all appearances was a healthy, robust woman, and
pronounced by all to be one of the kindest, pleasantest and
prettiest women in this city (Neillsville, Clark County). She
leaves a husband and five children to mourn her absence, the
youngest child four years old, and the oldest eighteen.
Her death was a surprise to all, and no doubt would not have
occurred as it did, were it not the fact that physicians are
allowed too many privileges, especially while using dangerous
drugs, etc. When a death occurs under their hands, a rigid
investigation should be held, and if found in the least careless or
negligent, or incapable to the task they have undertaken, should be
punished for manslaughter, just as much as a criminal, who
unintentionally kills a man. As a rule, there is too much
experimenting practiced, and very little common sense used by
physicians of today. A human body is not constructed like a machine
with interchangeable parts, and when a physician cuts off a finger,
arm or leg, it is cut off and no replacing it. A more rigid law
should be created to govern the practice of medicine, and in its
compounding and dishing out.
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