The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-11-11
4 DAISY DOCTOR.
Peculiar In Practice Confident of Re
sults-IIls sudden Death.

Peculiar In Practice Confident of Re
sults-Hls sudden Death.
"Thoro's big difference in doctors, |
tell you" said an old timer to me the
other day. "You think you know some
thing about 'em, but you are still in the
hul and bloom and kindergarten of
life. Wait till you've been through
what have"
"Where, for instauceY' asked him.
wei, 10 say nothing about u' ythng
else, Just look at the doctors Wa had in
the war. We had doctor Ia our rcli-
mont that looked aS II hp know 20 much
that IL made him unhappy found out
mtorward that he ran kiud of COW
founding asylum in Utah before the
war, and when he had to prescribe for a
human bong it seemed TO kind OF rattle
him.
81 fell of'n my horse carly in the cam
pnIgn, and broke my leg, | rickoluct,
ne Iut the bone, lie Thought the bono
Ought t1 be sot similar to hen. He
madc what no callcdu good splice, but
tho break was above the knee, and lac
got the COW idea into his head In way
that set the knee behind. That was
bad.
al told him ono day that he was "A
blamed fool. lie gave me cigar and
told mo | must he a miud-readcr.
U"For several weeks our colonel
couldn't cat anything, and seemed to
feel kind of bilious. lie didn't know
what the trouble was until he went To
the doctor. He looked at the colonel a
u few minutes, examined his tongue,
aud told him right of that he had lost
his end.
"lIe Dragged good deal on his dag
uosis. lie said he'd like to sec tho dis
ease no couldn't diagnose with one hand
tied behind him.
ale was always telling how he had
resuscltatod n man they hung over at
Tie city in the early day, He was hung
by mistake, IL seemed. IL was dark
night, aud tho vigilance committee was
IN something ola hurry, having another
party tn hang over at Dirty Moman's
Ranch that night, aud so they orrone-
ously hung quiet young Teller from
Illinois, who had been sent west 10 cure
a case of bronchitis. He was right i'm
the middle of nm explanation, whom the
hu2d Vigilau,S kicked the board from
under him and broke his neck.
~ at once some ono said: My God,
wa have made u ridiculous bluuder.
10y - wv NTA ' VIC AhlI tAINAWl AOOuI
hanging total strangers. A few mora
such breaks as these, and people from
the states will hesitate about coming
here to make their home. We have al.
ways claimed that this was a good
country for bronchitis; hut il we write
TO Illinois and tell this young fellows
parents the facts We needu't look for "A
very largo hegira from Illinois next
season. Poe, can't you do anything Tor
this young man"
"lheu the physician stopped forward,
he says. and put his Nnee ON the back
OF the boys neck, give it little push,
nj the same time pulled tho head
back with u snap that Strengthened
the neck, and the Young fellow.
who was In tho middle ola largo word,
something like 'contum w. when the
barrel tipped over, finished out the word
aud went right on with tho exclamation.
The doctor said he lived good many
Years, aud was loved and esteemed by
all who knew him.
This doctor was ALWAYS telling Of his
trlumphs In surgery. lie did save "a
good many lives, too, toward the close
of The war, Tie did 10 In IN odd way, TOO.
"le had ABOUT ono more wear To sorvp.
and, with his dOctoring on one side and
the hostility ut tho enemy Oi the enemy
ON the othCru our reg Wput was wore
down 10 about 80 mon. Everybody
said wa couldn't stand il moro than
another year. One dsy, the dortor
had just measured man for porous
plaster and had laid the stub ofhis al.
gar carefully ON the top of rcd powder
&t2, when there WAS slight ntmoS-
phev,c disturbance, the smell of burnt
clothes, aud our regiment had 70 andy
Tor new surgeon.
"Tho wifo W our late surgeon wrote
70 have her late husbands remains for
warded 10 her, but told hor il would
De diihcUlt 10 do 80 owing ~ the nature
of the accident | said, however, that
we had found an upper SGT vi store teeth
mheddCd IN a palmetto trto uoar by.
and hod buried them with military HON
orS, erecting over tho grave : largo
board on which was inscribed the name
and axe ~ the deceased aud thus inscrip.
tiNns
"'Not dead, hu, spontaneously dis
tuhu,ed. Gone to meet his Mortified
thrnng of patients, Ia, va, vain world, ''
o. Mll I'VE.