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Under California's penal code, any person who "unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures or renders it useless" is guilty of mayhem, punishable by one to 14 years' imprisonment. Last week in San Francisco, Drs. Tilton Edwin Tillman and Samuel George Boyd were arrested for mayhem, released on bail. On the ground that she was mentally incompetent, Dr. Tillman advised and Dr. Boyd had performed an operation sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, great-granddaughter of the late great Philanthropist Peter Cooper, granddaughter of the late great Statesman Abram...
...Tillman, big, jolly and 55, has for twelve years held a political appointment as member of San Francisco's lunacy commission, but he advised the operation in his private capacity as family physician without consulting his colleagues. Dr. Boyd, a small, precise, elderly Harvard Medical graduate, has never before been touched by scandal...
Daughter Hewitt claimed that the mental test had been given to her while she was suffering from appendicitis, that Dr. Tillman had told her it was merely to see "whether her heart could stand the ether for the operation." Some of the questions & answers on which Psychologist Scally based her mental rating: Q. What is the longest river in the U. S. A. I don't know. Q. How many years are there to a Presidential term? A. Two. Q. Why did the Pilgrims come to America? A. To make a pilgrimage...
...sterilization. What surgical procedure had been used remained publicly in doubt. Commonest techniques of female sterilization are to remove the ovaries or to tie off or cauterize the Fallopian tubes. Ordinarily an abdominal incision is involved, though cauterization may be accomplished dangerously by entrance through the uterus. Drs. Tillman & Boyd stoutly maintained that they had respectively recommended and performed sterilization because Daughter Hewitt was feebleminded, declared their action was an everyday occurrence. "I didn't worry about the legal aspects of the thing," said Surgeon Boyd, "figuring a mother had the right to request such an operation, since...
After San Francisco legal authorities had suggested that they might have to show medical grounds for the operation, affidavits by Drs. Tillman & Boyd were discovered in New Jersey which asserted that after they had Daughter Hewitt on the operating table for an appendectomy, they discovered serious disturbances of her other organs which necessitated sterilization. Surgeon Boyd admitted that only a few weeks ago he had inserted in his private record of the case the words "organs infantile." Daughter Hewitt's attorney wanted to know why, if only an appendectomy was anticipated, Surgeon Boyd had made his incision...