The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-12-19
Not taking the Doctors Advice--KiIIing
q Husband with Kindness-A Fool Deed.


Husband with Kindness-A Fool Deed
Among the most disagreeable things attend
Ing the prsctice of the most ardent of all pro
! Observation-Disclosures the prejudices whrcl
the physician must constantly contend will
/ either in the mind of the patient, or in that
his friends. 1t is easy to cure the bydily com
plants Of a hundred persons than to eradicate
the prejudices from tho mind of one. Absurt
ridiculous and hurtfu notions, which have, a.
, 1t were grown with them, will adhere to the
mine in spite ofall efforts to root them out.
Visiting patient short time ago, says DR.
Lambert, (a celebrated physician, la,e from
4 Cincinnati, but now practising in this city, !
perceived very dsagreeable smell, like tina,
of'Putrid meat, apparently issuing from beneath
the bed clothes, at the foot Of the foot of the
bed. Inquired what it was. "Why, said the
good wife, who was attending on her husband,
Sits nothing but a dung-hill fowl he has 60,
on the bottom of his feet, poor man,
ga dung-hill fowl" exclaimed I, with a.
mazement.
"Yes, Doctor" said she; 81 had the latest
fowl in the barn yard curd cut open alive, and
one half put on one foot, and one half on the
other, while it was all alive and kicking. 1t $
charming thing for fever Doctor,
ga live fowl cut open, and put on a mans
feet to cure fever? What put this foolish
notion into your head!"
"Foolish notion or not, Doctor, am sure
Mr.. Tozer is great deal better of his COM
plant, than he was, poor man; he doesn't
sweat so confusely, and he breathes great
deal shorter and quicker than he didn
$50 much the worse, good woman"
$50 you always tell me doctor, when Pm do
ing all can for the benefit of the sick in my
family So you told me when was stopping
the cold of my first husband-the dear good
Mr.. Pheeser Heaven rest his soul, which in
spite of all could do, turned to an informa-
ton of the lungs, and he is now in his grave,
poor man.n
"But what could put into your head this
shocking remedy of the split fowl!"
"Why it's been in my head ever SO long,
Doctor. My grandfather was cured by it, of
purified fever, as rve heard my mother
say. Father was likewise cured by the same
remedy, of a dreadful rebellious fever, but Just
as he was getting on his feet again, he had a
prolapse, which carried him off. Besides these,
my consin Jonathan Jenkins was cured of an
information in the bowels in the same way.
Then Mrs. Thlstlesfter, who you know, is We
ry skilful in roots and arbs, and sofourth, says
there is nothing in the world SO good for fever,
as the split fowl"
ga split FOOL" was going to say; and in
deed if all fools were so, who NEEDLE with
that which they know nothing about, the world
would be better off. 'Did you give Mr.. Tozer
the medicine left hm!''
"No, Doctor, Mrs. Thistlesifter came here
just after you went away, and couldn't do no
less than to insult her in SO imminent crisis;
and we come to the conclusion between us;
that it is best not to give him the medicine you
left-but to put the split fowl on his feet, poor
man, and dress him well with pepper grass tea,
and little gll-go-over-ground, and smart
weed with it."
$50 you didn't give him the medicine left? p
"No, Doctor, Mrs. Thistlesifter and thought
it such an impotent case, that the split fowl
was the principal thing that could be relied up
on. Besides, to tell the truth, Doctor, we were
afeard there was mercury in the medicine, as
we noticed white powder in it,
"Indeed and so because you and Mrs. This
tlesifter noticed white powder in the medicine
you threw it aside, and split live fowl"
ayes, doctor, do think mercury is dread
full bad thing. 1t saves peoples lives, to be
sure; but then it gets into the bones. as Mrs.
Thistlesifter says, and there's no getting-it out
again as long as you live. Oh! wouldn't a
had Mr.. Tozer poor man, to take it for any,
thing!
"And SO by following your own and Mrs.
Thistlesifter's foolish notions, you've lost your
husband"
"Lost him did you say, Doctor, lost my dear
Mr.. Tozer.
sAy;I grieve to inform you that he won't
live forty-eight hours"
"Not forty-eight hours doctor! not live forty
eight hours! and I've been married year?'
Pm very sorry to say there is no hope for
him.
sand laid out so much money tor my we'd |
ding clothes only year ago. And the dung
hill fowl gone too-the latest rooster in the
barn yard. Oh, miserable me that should be
widow again, so soonn Saying this the good
woman rang her hands and wept bitterly.
The next day Mr. Tozer died. Mrs. Tozer
as in duty bound, wept profusely for his death
but finally comforted herself that she had
done everything that an affectionate wife could
taken the advice of Mr.. Thistlesif-
ter, aud having killed the most valuable rooster
in the barn-yard to save her husbands life.
AsPARAeUs BEDs-Cut Off the stalk, let them
lie on the bed until dry enough to burn, then
ERE them, and rake the ashes evenly over the
beds. This done, make a compost of eight
parts of well rotted stable dung and two
parts Of ashes, mix them well together, spread
il evenly over the beds, say two inches thick,