Mitcheltree - Florence
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 26 December 1874
New Ross - Miss Florence Mitcheltree, dress and cloak maker at this place, died Sunday of erysipelas. The physician employed was a notorious quack traveling through the country, who professed to cure any disease, acute or chronic, without the aid of drugs, simply by rubbing the patient. And in this case he rubbed his patient to death. It first made its appearance on the lip. The doctor punctured it and then commenced his rubbing from above downward, telling his patient that he would drive the disease out. This he kept up day and night until her cheeks were perfectly raw. There is no intelligent being but what knows the more an erysipelatous inflammation is rubbed or irritated the worse it will be. It’s adding fuel to the fire. The friends have my sympathy, but hope they will never be induced to try another traveling quack, even if his tongue does run slick. “S”