Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-12-27
sIIL NYE's DAISY DOCTOR.
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TDenyer Opinion


 @Tbere's n big difference in doctors, ] tell you said an oldtimer to me tht other day. You think you know some lining about 'em, but you are still m the auif and bloom and Kindergarten ot lie Wait till you've been through what have?n ,,
 -Wbere for instancel' l asked him.
 Well. say nothing about anything else. just look at the doctors We had m the war. We had a doctor in our regiment thai looked as if he knew so much that II maut him unhappy l found out aiterwahu that he ran a kind of COW founding asylum in Utah before the war. and when he ha6 to prescribe for a human being It seemed 10 kind of rattle him.
 Il fell ofl'm my horse early in the cam paign. and broke my leg. rickolect' anC he sot the bone He thought that Dont ought to be sOt similar Co a hen. He made what he callel good splice. but the break was above the knee. and he got the COW idea into his head in a way that set the knee behind. That was bad.
 Il told him one day that he was 2 blamed fool He gave me cigar, anC told me must be a mind reader.
 sFor several weeks our colonel cOuldnl eat anything. and seemed tO feel kind Oi bilious. He didn't know what the trouble was till he went 10 The doctor. He looked at the colonel a few minutes. eXaminec his tongue. and told him right of that ht had lost his cud.
 He bagged a good deal on hi: diagnosis. He said he'd like tO see th, disease he couldn't diagnose with one hant tied behind him
 -He Was always telling how he hao resusciiated man they hung over at li' City in the early day. He was hung oy mistake, it seemed. It was dark night, and the vigilance committee was m some thing of hurry, having another party t' hang over at Dirty Mans ranch that night and SO they errOneousiy hung qule' young feller from Illinois who had been sent west to cure a case Of bronchitis He was right in the middle Of an explanation when the head vigilantes kicked the board from under him and broke his neck.
 All at once some one said: My God We have made ridiculous blunder. Boys We can't be too careful about hanging total strangers \ few more such breaks as these. and people from the states wi. hesitate about coming here to make theii home. We have always claimed that thi' was a good country for bronchitis, but | We write tO Illinois and tell this youns fellcr's parents the facts. we needn't looh for a very large hegira from Illinois mex season. Doc. cant you do anything fol this young man.
 Then this physician stepped forward he says. and puts his knee on the back o the boys neck. give it little push, at thu same time pulling the head hack with { snap that straightened the neck. and tho young fellow, who was in the middle oi ; large word. something like 'cOntumely. when the barrel tipped over. finished Ou the wOrl and went right on with the eN p'atiOn. The doctor said he lived a gOOC many years. and was loved and esteemed by all who knew him.
 This doctor was always telling of hr triumphs in surgery. He did save good many liveS. to, toward the close of tho war. He did ii in an odd way. too.
 ~ He had about one year more Co serve and. with his ductOring on one side anC the hostility of the enemy on the other our regiment was wOr,. down Co about 70, men Everybody said we couldn't stand it more than another year. One day however. the doctor had just measured ; man for a porous plaster and had laid th' stub of his cigar carefully down on tho top of a rcd powder-keg. when there was a slight atmospheric disturbance the smcl of burnt clothes. and our regiment had (, apply for a new surgeon.
 -1he wife of our late surgeon wrote tC have her husbands remains forwarded tC her. but l told her it would De very diff cult to do so. owing to the nature of th, accident. l said. however. that We haC found an upper Sct of store teeth i'm bedded in a palmetto tree near by, anC had buried them with military honOrs erecting over the grave large board Or which was inscribed the name and az, of the deceased and this inscription.
 Not dead. but spontaneously dis tTibuted. Gone to meet his glOriteC throng of patients Ia. la. vain world