... the morning his son Ulysses, who lived near, was brought, and he at once sent for Dr. Fordyce Barker, the family physcian, who pronounced the case one that required surgical treatment, and called in Dr. Lewis A. Stimson . The injury was thought to be the rupture of a muscle in the upper part of the thigh, and although after the first few days the suffering was less, any quick or sudden movement of the limb was so ...