Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-05-11
THREE DOCTORS.
TIE Conioled Mistake Young ctoT Made
a. tie Outset Of His Practice.
..DI~tOI ETEnI> AND INPI.oiE~
Sos III.

The other evening they We're nav
iu@ a jol!.. tia" uver i. Schneider :
hack Room. when BIZ Nilsson caIa" i'll
and aioiogiled for being late, saying
that hi; grandmother had ct iA''
measles. an h. had hr'a after (. d.
trr for h..r, n TIC same tine ~IlAlH-g
slyly at Schneider.
sir You don't say So "iacu
lated Blifkin-. a. hn stirred l!p the
sugar from ;ho hott"in 81 the Si:.,>
and crowded the lemon peel NJ
against It's side. You will have IL
be careful with the old ladE. Diil.
especially when she gets to teethng.
. What doctor did YOU get
Jones
HIS a good one. I've known him
ever since. be commenced practlclng.
He got into trouble the first thing by
saving q mans life, but he don't do 81
any more.
Tel! lis about 1t. Blli.
"Iou see. there was old Noxon. wEo
used to have row with his wife about
three times a week. He got cranky,
aud made mp his mind to shuttle off,
80 he filled up with laudanum and
went to bed When the old lady
| found HIM ne was colder'n Il wedge,
She went to screaming. and as fast a.
| tn" nrig;lhor5 came III. sent them OH
after a DOCTOR Some Of them went
| in one direction. and some III another.
and it wasn't long before the doctors
! began t. cnngrrgate.
Smith got there first and looked
, the old man over. Dead. says he.
! and went away.
Then Brown came in Dead. say-
he
Jones was the third one in, and he
rammcd IL stomach pump down The
old mans throat and pumped up the
| drug store. Then he reversed the ac
ton of the pump and flooded the old
man with water, and after sloshin"
! him around for awhile, same as IL hc
was rinsing ont a cider barrel. he
pumped out the water, and then
| flooded him again. NoXon wasn't in
| he haDit of taking SO much water III
his'n, and pretty soon he began tC
gasp and kick. Before morning Jones
had HIM all right. and went away
feeling dead sure that there was but
one first -clas5 doctor in the world. \
few days afterward he presented his
bill.
"'What's this FORE says old Noxon
For saving your life the Otter
night says Jones.
We'll. | didn't ask you to. Inevel
employed you, and I'll not pay it
You'd no business coming in mere anC
jambing Your old pump down my
neck. Brown is my family physician
and I'll not pay anybody else say:
| NoXOn.
80 away went Jones to Brown,
office and tried to get him to induce
OLD Noxon to pay the bill.
JONES' says Brown, looking on
over the top of his spectacles, L never
thought you was bad sort of fellow
but you've done a very foolish thing
and it serves you right to lose you
bill. It's a good lesson to you. and
hope you'll profit by it. Didn't l sa.
he was dead?'
Eyes says Jones.
"'Didn't Smith say he was dead
"'Yes, says Jones.
"'Well, that settled it! The nal
was dead, and you had no right to sa,
that he wasn't. When two old, OK
perienced doctors. like Smith and !
, say man is dead, it's unprofessiona
and discourteous for a young man,
beginner in practice, to dispute thei
word. Well forgive you this time be
, cause of your youth and inexperience
and'will hush the matter up for yor
, but be very careful in the future an,
make no more such Mistakes"