Word: markert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Under New Jersey law, Markert was not allowed to prescribe drugs, administer anesthetics, or use the knife in surgical operations. But Maxfield was a newly qualified "licensed medical practitioner"- a kind of super-osteopath who had passed a special State examination allowing him "unlimited practice...
...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...
...Markert was promptly arrested, charged with manslaughter, held on $990 bail. Maxfield was photographed, fingerprinted and released. He had not transgressed the law. Said Walter's bereaved mother to reporters: "We had all the confidence in the world...