The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-05-12
miscellaneous.
From the Diary of a New England
Physician.


The Chronotype is publishing " Extracts
fao.n the Diary pf New England Physi-
cian," and they are excellent. The writer,
NoGGs," tells some rich stories. The fol-
lowing is extracted for the benefit of our
readers:-
81 prescribed for the Deacon the usua!
remedies made and provided for his leg,
VIZ: solution OF UXymuri ale Hydrargyri-
IN the yernacular, corrosive subiinate, and
IN the vuigate, 'bg plsou.' | shalt not soon
forget the first time he put 1t Oh, or the
face he made up, or what he said. Jemma
SAID she called II sWearing-Uut that's not
at ali likely, tor deacon's don't swear. He
merely SAID, darn the stuff To darnation,
Ir's burning my leg ups aud told somebody
TO BRING hiil some cider as quick AS posi-
bic. 1 assured HIM that it Was all right as
1t was necessary to 20 on the principle of
slmilia simlhous clirantur ia all such eases
winch, duty rendered, means. Il hair OF the
same dog vii cure: remember that, I1ltZur.
Well, the medicine did do ii. immediately
that Is, the stuart Of the medicine cured the
smart OF the disease, 10y virtue OF It's power
To overcome III other words, it cure,! one
smart ct the discase, 10y creating another
anu Il bigger. Aud whit tIckled tt,, deac on
more was, thu; OWING 10 It's astrIngeut pow
CT, &C., II dried the hunUr up IN Il very
short tine. And here again The pIilicudy
medicines received new hUnurS, and every
body IA the heishboIiiooG was advised 10
Try them.
IN about week from the time stopped
coming To the les ol the deacon, was call
ell aSain-ths time 10 the eyes. Jeii.na
told me Oh Observation-Disclosures was IL wit in.
her way--that her fathers eye-openers'
were like 10 become shutters, and guessed
II he didn't stop the cider, the windows of
his mind would he stopped up that he
wouldn't know When to Coll Tor his night
. cap
Ills eyes were pretty well stopped up
now--he could but Just see OUT of them, aud
WISHED the plague mad the pesky bunor.'
w ell, Ductor,' SAID he on my entrance,
Eve sent tor you agln, cause you cured O.
my leg up SO nee and Quicki To see IT yuu
can't get II out OF my eyes
g On, certainly" SAID /, "gve yourself
no uueasiucss. 1 viii soon relieve YOUR
eyes, aud at Them went with my celebra-
ted Hunor W ash, Known only To the Pill
icOdy's," and soon had the satisfaction OF
seeing The enemy of the deacon's colistilu-
uOm, retreat from the position II had lately
occupied, much 10 the great qualification Of
tEe deacon--w Who vowed "by George" that
he never see tile beat, he dIun't, OF ttat ere
wash III his lie, aud IN addition 10 my regu-
lar lees, made t;e present OF peck oi
winter apples small and specked ii littlc,"
the deacon said, "but powerful good eating
apples" he deacOn's taste and my pig
didn't agree, for the latter to whom emp
tied them as got home, merely tossed them
over with his nose few HINES, and then
looked up as much as 10 say, "no you
don't. YOU'RE Joking" sc.
he week after Was again called to the
Ieg-and 50 II Was, week alter week, first in
the eye, then III the leg, and yet the poor
deacon never dreamed that there was any
relation between his eyes and leg, or that,
by "curins" the leg the eyes were made
sore, till at length the slomach-whch must
have been lined with sheet ZINC to stand the
NONSENSE 1t had, in the way of cider aud
medicine-began 10 give out, and TO turn
up Its hose, as u were, 10 ITS oldest and n ost
intimate acquaIntances. g What on airih
ais my stomach, Doctor said he, "you'd
scarce believe II, but even cider-which all
US agreed WITH ne ever since | was boy
makes a fuss every time drink any, just as
If It didn't want TO stay down there-and
as for eatni', can't begin to keep nothing
down, and as for that, i don't have much
appetite. Now, Doctor, will you be SO good
as to tell me what 70 do'''
Things had now go, to such pitch, was
forced to insinuate gently, that even Dea-
cons were mortal, and that stomachs had
feeling, and probably little less cider
daily, would not be fatal-at least not i'm
mediately SO. In the mean the | would
give hun one of !my revolutionary eme,ics,
which turn the stomach wrong side out
wards, thereby producing change of ac-
ton, which must be productive of benefit to
the whole alinentary canal. The Deacon
did not seem to see the connection between
the enetic aud the benefit, but assured him
it was just so aud never knew it fail I! aud
he took it, remarking as he did SD, that he
didii't care what it did 10 him, IT it only
made his stomach take kindly to its cider
again. began to think the Deacon was
enetic proof, after waiting an hour, for my
reyolut:onizcr to operate, in vain, and be-