The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-09-18

! after preparing medicines for two day
. ahead, and giving The stricirs, orders io.
t their being administered regularly ever,
bali hour, the great surgeon departed.
d He was To truth q mau Of tine skiiI jt
surgery, but, as before stated, not other
? wise eminent However, M. reputation
, served him for wide medical practice
b and when he WAS called, The case wa
generally no ordinary oue.
II no sooner became known that o.,
great Doctor Johns bad been summoned
than Mr., Samuel P.J. T. Tbrockmortor
was assumed TO be in q most perilon'
condition; and one and al who knew
him came 10 see him, aud each visitor
knew of some certain, speedy aud safe
cure. For day the great surgeons pre-.
scriptions were adhered to; then the pa.
tiont began to waver, and on the second
morning his faith was quite gone, lie
was sinking every moment, be said, which
was true.
| suppose It's none Of my business, said
Mrs, White, bnt it seems to me IL You
would send for my Indian doctor he
would help you. He cured Jane hin
when all the doctors had given her up,
He bound up her feet in rattesuake's
grease, and cut live fowl in two, and
elapped it right onto her stomach; then
be gave her some bitters made Of rum
and iron rust and sleeps milk, aud It was
not an hour after she took the first tea
spoonful tin she walked from the bed to
the fire, aud now she wont have no
doctor but him.
Westly was sent post haste the dis
tance OF twelve miles, and in due time
returned, accompanied by Mr.. Snake
root, with variety Of dried roots, snake
skins and herbs. Simples were soon sim
mering In sleeps milk and the blood Of a
| pullet, charms were uttered aud the mir
acuous course of treatment began. But
Dr. Snakeroot met with no such success
as he was reputed TO have had in the case
of Jane Hill; on the contrary, the patient
grew worse and worse.
You are killing yourself, said Mr.. Clark
Boots, a young man who superintended
boys school in the neighborhood, de-
livered temperance lectures, and got up
moral reform societies among the ladies',
Just let me take you IN hand, and in
few days you will be a well man. See
here, sir? Can you do that2 And he ex-
hibited variety Of feats and strength
with chairs, tables and the like. Mr.,
Throckmorton, who was now too i'll to Of
fer much opposition, said he was willing
to try anything; and Mr.. Clark Boots
commenced operations.
Poor Mr.. Throckmorton was complete
" soused in wet sheets, and required to
drink ice water by the quart. AS soon
as your are able to rise, Mr.. Throckmor-
ton, you must begin series of gymDss.
tic exercises. First, jump over a chair,
then over two chairs; first backwards
and then forwards, till you are master of
the chair exercise Then jump over the
table; then place some small obstacle on
the table, your hat, for instance, and then
jump over the two. And so keep up
brisk exercises till all the muscles are
brought into play, and healthful per-
spiraton induced. will myself super
intend your gymnastic exercises.
o, Sally Ann, is the house shaking
down? ] am going all to pieces. Put
forty blankets over mel can't live this
way. So the sick man continued to talk
for half an hour, when, to his relief, a
new visitor arrived-Mr. Tompkins.
Tut, tutl he exclaimed, resting his
hands on his hips, If you want to drown
you had better get into the cistern.--
Come, my good woman addressing Mrs
ThrOckmorton), and let's ungear him
Now, the first thing is to warm him. Aud
Mr., Tompkins directed some composition
tea to be prepared, bundled the exhausted
man in blankets, procured long spouted
tea-kettle, he set it boiling, at the same
time introducing the snout into the bed
Before long the patient began to groau
as heartily as he had done with the cold,
and Sally Ann was implorcd to admins
ter something, anything.
Never do you mind him, my good wo-
man, but keep the kettle boiling for an
hour. We must use our own judgment;
lie don't know what Is best. a feeble
groan was the only reply.
| At the expiration Of two hourg, Mr..
Tomkins departed, saying be would come
the following day and make another APP
/ plication Of steam.
Sally Ann! 0he call was very fainD
send for old Mrs. Perrin. 1t seemed she
did me good the moment She came into
/ the house.
/ 1t was a dismal night--rainy, windy,
chcerless-aBd when Westly was seen
abroad, ii was appreheuded that Mr..
Throckmorton was dead
Cut off in the midst Of his usefulness,
said one-a mysterious dispensatiou Of
divine Providence, said another. Aud
so in blind ignorance the ncighbors la
menled.
The rain aud wind drove against the
windows, the lamp burned diVly, and
/ the wife, worn down and despairing, an
swered the noaus Of her husband. The
coach ratified down ihe gravclel walk
a glad sound 70 those weary listeners
step nimbIy trod tie stair, and he Ht,le
black spparition re-eulered The chamber
tie right stormy night, size sdd, re-
moving aud folding ber best shawl aud
placing q small baske, On the table. Bad
for cattle that are out