Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-09-07
DIR. Tredickar'S Pills.


young physician than DR.. Tredickar.
His manners were the perfection OF
the sympathetic; his tact and his
judgment were only equalled by his
devotion and skill his personal mag
netism was immense, and the cures
he wrought were marvellous.
Fresh from the hospitals as he was,
and eager IN the pursuit of his sci
ence, many old families welcomed
him as likely to have newer knowl-
edge than the ageing physician who
had carried them through their life
time; and young families, just set
ting up for themselves, chose him as
likely to 60 along the road with them
selves to the end.
The event certainly justified their
choice, and reports of the young doc
tors ability went through the country
side, and even extended to the next
large city, so that not infrequently he
was called in consultation there with
physicians of longer and wider repute
than his own. His diagnosis of
case was so swift and sure that peo-
Pile used to say that DIR. Tredickar
could tell what allied you by just look
ing at you, and many good woman
averred that she was more benefited
by his touch upon the pulse than by
another doctors prescription.
Very possibly she was, for DR..
Tredickar gave very little medicine !;
the case was extreme in which he
sent much custom to the druggist.
He carried about with him in his gig
certain medicants that he was wont
to administer, apparently potent, and
made up under his formula. From a
peculiar liquid in vial he measured
one drop; if, by any accident, a por-
ton of another drop left the vial, the
glass had to be rinsed and the single
drop tried again; to this drop a half
glass of sweetened water being add-
ed, the patient was allowed a tea
spoonful of the result once in six
hours, if waking. @
1t was generally understood that
this liquid was something of Dir. Tired
ickar's own importation, difficult to
obtain and enormous in cost; and
the gratitude which his patients felt
for the kindness of his thus procur-
ing and keeping on hand what they
hardly could have procured for them
selves, was something excelled only
by the rapidity with which they pick
ed up health and strength under its
effect.
Another thing which he was fond
of administering was tiny pill which
he had always about him, and that he
left in small numbers to be taken al
morning and night, under certain
: other directions, always ordering that
if the patient felt too much braced or
the second day, with ringing ears ol
crowded sensations in the head, or s
pain in the left thumb, the number
was to be lessened, the pills, however
to be taken three days, and ther
, omitted for three days, until cure was
effected.
= If these and the liquid did not work
in such cases as he prescribed them
r then DR.. Tredickar seemed to take
another view of the case, and to de-
vote himself to it with personal as
), sidulty and fiery earnestness, and tt
r endeavor to bring the patient up as il
n on the strong wings of all his pow
ers and learning.
n The fact was that DR.. Tredicka
: believed in Nature. He knew tina
in certain malignant phases of th'
disease the physician and strons
;, drugs and heroic measures are a
|. necessary as the air we breathe; bu
t he believed that many whimsical, by
n pochondriac, feeble-minded, wear,
S and worn-out patients were to b
helped by purely hygienic treat
q ment, by proper diet and other aid
! to the health, and should not hav
e one organ or another interfered witt
e by strong poison or drugs; and ev
d cry such instance he gave his price
less liquid and little dark pills, ant
}, let nature and the tonic effect of faitl
= and hope do the reviving work
). And of course he had many such pa
n tients, as many such people abound
e and the cures we're so satisfactor,
that his fame spread in wide ant
wider circles, people who had beer
: hurt and not helped by drugs leaving
other physicians for his advice.
' And he gave the advice, and hi
d little dark pills, too; and with som
relief comes quickly, and wit
!? others, where the system had been still
further upset by strong medicines
, not so quickly. m
If he had at any time doubts as t,
o the empiriclsm of this treatment, h
n excused himself by stating the weak
ness of human nature, and by remem
o bering that as cure was what wa
u wanted, he was the one to decide hoy
). to effect the cure.
. But as DR.. Tredickar's practice in
Y creased, he had not the time for di
It viding slices of brown bread into in
). finiteismal bits that once he had, and
frequently called away, he woul'
n leave the task for pretty Doroth
Merle to finish, and she would divid
and rpdivida the tinv eonn,opfc on,