Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-04-17
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Won NAV wonder how tbs miners gos
slona without > doctor IN camp, fof tnefo
vere indeed times enough when the ST
vices of a skiliful physician wefe 70 oe-
mand. The winter We put IN NJ Caiico
FIAT there vas somebody on the SICK ifss
ali the time, and there were days when
re had three or four patisnts IN hosp'ssa
1t once. .
hot sveat. When man began 70 imp
around Ne didn't lose time BY fssiina o.
his polse or looking aS his tongue. inres
or four stones were pat into the nfe 70
heat. blankets borrowed for the occasion;
And when We got steam on the knots ana
twista and kinks In that chaps CASE nao
10 unravel. He'd come out ana long
and fat and thin and white ~ you
nleas.; and il any ono pointed . nngef
At him for the next week, NED csy nAo
Q baby. ..; 90
bs ira. barks and roots, and once or twice
q tried the earth cure. On one occa-
s;on. when a rsd-headsd miner from
Ohio was laid up with . pain 70 the SIDE.
a stranger came along from wuite DoR
BEND aud said he could cure him ny lay
mo on Of hands. For three long hours
he smoothed away at the patient a.
stnadily as clock work, and then there
was a row. The "moother asserted
that the cure was complete, while tne
,,atient denied that the pain vas WIN
easier: and, OF course. We stood by our
comrade. and gave the stranger tum-
bIe al . cliff twenty eight feet high
into an cid snow-drift eighteen feet
INT. "A 1 said at the start, sickness
haca ma 40 prevalent, and 0uf plain rem
ediea had 10 little effect, that It was
finally decided to send up to Sacramento
for doctor, The idea was TO have him
come down and brace NJ all up ano
leave medicines and remedies, and the
axnense was TO DO borne by a shake
A letter vas sent to dealer in thf
town. asking him 10 forward a doctor
and In about five days along he came
He was Young man Of twenty four, JUS
landed on tho SLOPE without dollar n
his pockst, and all he brought to camG
With him was q lanoet, some prescrip fiof
blanks and stick OF salvs for making
sticking plaster.
day. and after bit ths doctor eiteret
10 take a look at them. l. happened
that he came to Big Jim Smith FIRST
Smith was threatened With inflammation,
rheumatism, and was in no mood to taxi
nonsense.
"Run ont your tongue" said the doc
tor, as he bent oyer tho man.
Big Jim displayed IL, but in such be
crudQinQ way that il was plain to see n
Thought il all bosh.
"Your pulse" said the doctor, as b
reached over for Jirn's great paw.
"Pulse? ! hain't got any" Rrowlet
Jim.
"Oh, yes, you have. Here il il, IL
your wrist. Keep atill for a moment"
stranger" said Jim, after the dOcto
had dropped his hand, dye mean =
tell mo that ye kin feol Q mans wis
and tell him what ails his insidesg'
"Yes, In . measure"
EXCUSE my NOT calling you liar, bu
some of tho boys will do 1t fur me afor
you are an hour older"
"What are your symptomsr' aske'
tho doctor.
"Never had any"
.How do you feel"
"Sick."
Elbow were you taken7"
"Straneer, what are you driving att
demanded Jim, a. he eat up In bed.
"Have you got painsS" :.
"In courss I havsl Dye 'spoae II
b lying Aat On my back here Il an,