During a runaway the patient was thrown from his wagon, and was soon after found on the roadside apparently dead.

Physicians who were quickly summoned from the immediate neighborhood detected faint signs of life; they also found a deformity of the neck, which led them to suspect dislocation.

An ambulance was called, and without any effort being made to relieve the deformity the man was placed in it and driven to his home about a mile distant.

The jolting over the rough roads greatly aggravated his condition.

When Doyle saw the patient, his general appearance presented a hopeless condition, but being satisfied that a dislocation existed, Doyle immediately prepared to reduce it.