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Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012-02-22. Paperback. Good.

Portland [Me.] : Printed for James Adams, Jr., by David and Seth Paine, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [Medical Malpractice: Early American Legal History] Front board detached. 124 p. Institutional stamps on title page. First edition of a medical malpractice pamphlet from Machias, Maine. The plaintiff, Charles Lowell (1793-1858) was an Ellsworth, ME lawyer who was thrown from his horse. Lowell was injured in the fall and he dislocated his left hip. Due to poor medical treatment the injury progressed to paralysis on the left side of his body. "Lowell sued Faxon and Hawks for malpractice and asked for $10,000 in damages. In March 1823 a jury found Faxon and Hawks guilty of malpractice and awarded Lowell $1,962, an extraordinary sum in the early nineteenth century. The physicians appealed the case and won the opportunity for a retrial. The jury in the second trial could not decide on a verdict and passed the case to the trial judge, who awarded Lowell only $100. The defendants appealed… Read More