Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-11-27
A DAISY DOCTOR.
Bin Nye Tells of One of the Good Old
Kind of Physic-Dispensers.

Bin Nye Tellss of one of the Good Old
Kind of Physic-Dispensers.
There's a big difference in doctors,
/ tell you," said an timer to me the
other day. .You think you know
somthing about 'em, but you are still
in the fluff and bloom and kindergarten
of life. Wait till you've been through
what / have"
where, for instance?r I asked him.
ssWell, say nothing about anything
else; Just look at the doctors we had in
the war We had a doctor in our regi-
ment that looked as If he knew so much
that it made him unhappy. found out
afterward that he ran kind of Cow
Founding Asylum in Utah before the
war, and when he had to prescribe for
a human being 1t seemed TO kind of rat
tie him.
Il fell Off my horse early in the
campaign and broke my leg. | ricko-
lect, and he sot the bone He thought
that bone should be sot similar TO a
hen He made what he called a good
splice, but the break was above the
knee. and he got the cow idea into his
head in way that set the knee behind
That was bad
Il told him one day that he was a
blamed fool He gave me a cigar and
told me must be a mind-reader.
For several weeks our Colonel
could mt eat anything, and seemed to
feel kind of bilious. He didn't know
what the trouble was till he went to
the doctor He looked at the Colonel
few moments, examined his tongue,
and told him right off that he had lost
his cud.
He Dragged a good deal on his d.
agnosis. He said he d like to see the
disease he couldn't diagnose with one
hand tied behind aim.
He was always telling how he had
resuscitated man they hung over at
Tie City in sthe early days. He was
hung by mistake il seemed. 1t was a
dark night, and the Vigilance Commit
tee was in something of a hurry, hay-
ing another party to hang over at Dir
IL Woman's ranch that night, and so
they enormously hung very quiet
Young Teller from Illinois who had been
West to cure case of bronchitis. He
was right in the middle of an explana-
ton when the head vigilanter kicked
the board from under him and broke
his neck.
'.All at once, some one said NV God!
We have made a ridiculous blunder.
Bows. We can't be too careful about
hanging total strangers. s few more
such breaks as these and people from
the States viii hesitate about coming
here TO make their homes We have
always claimed that this was good
country for bronchitis, but if We write
Il .a71 ~ e IN
parents the facts, we needn' look for a
very large hegira from Illinois next
season Doe, can't You do anything
for the Young MANI
Then this ply stefan stepped forward
he says. and put his knee on the back
of the boy neck, gave it little push,
at the same time pulled his head back
with a snap that Enlightened the neck,
and the young Teller. who was in the
middle Of 3 large word. something like
'contumely,' when the barrel tipped
over. finished out the word and went
right on with the explanation The
Doctor said that he lived a good MANY
years. and was loved and esteemed by
all who knew him
This doctor was always telling OF
his triumphs in surgery, He did save
a good many lives, too, toward the
close of the war. He did it in an odd
way. too.
He had about one year more to serve
and. with his doctoring on one side and
the hostility of the enemy on the other,
our regiment was worn down TO about
five hundred men. Everybody said
We couldn't stand it more than
another year. One day. however,
the Doctor had just measured a man
for porous plaster, and had laid
the stub of his cigar carefully down
on the top of red powder-keg.
when there was a slight atmos-
pheric disturbance. the smell OF burnt
clothes, and our regiment had to app
ply for new surgeon
The wife of our late surgeon wrote
TO have her husbands remains for
warded to her. but / told her it
would be very difficult to do so, ow-
ing to the nature of the accident. l
said. however, that we had found
an upper set of store teeth imbedded
in a palmetto tree near by. and had
buried them with military honors.
erecting over the grave large board
on which was inscribed the name and
age OF the deceased and this in
scription:
Not dead, but spontaneously dis
tributed. Gone to meet his glorified
throng of patients. Ia. Ia. vain world. =
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