Looking Back: 1894
In 1893, Dr. G.L. Carder, surgeon-in-chief for the Western Maryland Hospital, needed to operate on a patient, but he couldn’t find a doctor in town who would administer the chloroform to the patient. On another case of Carder’s, when a woman died after a particularly difficult surgery, other doctors started rumors that Carder had been guilty of malpractice. So prevalent were the rumors that the
