The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-09-16
BROKEN HEADS 81 HEARTS,
cencospein' AN Irish Dispansary Forty
Years Ago.
darling!"

Years Ago.
"Docthor, ,darlingu'
"Docthor, I'm horc since mornin'p
"Docthor, let me 60, an tho heavens
bless you. I'm as wako rs a piece Of
wet paper"
Glory TO your soul, docthor, ashore,
an gi' me something for this thrcm-
bin | have | do be thremblin' al
ways, like straw upon tho water"
"Docthor, heM' great pain in my
foot, sir. | declare | cried that bottlo
full to-day morning with it."
"That was a fine physic you ga mo
last night, long life to your honor"
There isn't bit ate, docthor, this
timo back, but what get conceit
again it the minute afthor."
"Docthor, can make no hand o. my
head ut all, these days"
''Oh, docthor, what'll | do at sll
with these ears O. mincp I'm partly
deaf always, an when ever 1 dotc,
l'hear great sounds am noises, waves
dashin' again the bank, and birds
whstlin' nn'-boo! an candlcstcks;
an when I'm deaf entirely, its then /
hear all the bells in Ireland ringin'in
my ears"
"Docthor, have great cypress upn
my heart"
That girl, sir, that you saw ycster-
day evening was bad entirely aftler
you goin'; Oh, she began scrcochin'in
Il manner, that if the priest was at tho
I doors, you'd think he wouldn't owr-
tako her; an every bit of her so ollot,
- that you'd imagine the clothes wmld
light about her, an her face tho Whole
timc as red rs if you throw Il boy. O.
blood i'm it,. "
''Docthor, a IA gal! Docthor, ur-
lin; DocthQr, ashore! Oh, maj sra
hu! Ma grien chrcc hu, Docthorlln
lot mo go!'
Such were few OF the cloqucnfen-
tenccs addressed by the throng of pa
ticnts, without the rails, to Dotor
Jarvis, one of the attending physicians
to Il disponsary in II district OF lrelmd.
Accustomed to the din, he rcnsancd
with an nndisturbcd countcnancc, slok-
ing alternately into the haggaHl ro-
bus blooming, pale, fair. youngand
ancf8lt faces that were thrust foErard
through tho wooden rails, and pcit-
ing his sympathy. Two or three Yang
disciples were hammcring avn ut
their mortars in different corncrsg onl-
pounding, ike so many Cyclops the
thundcrbo!ts OF this great dispcnsr Of
health or of its opposite. The scno
around him was one which miglnlave
walked uneasy sympathics in tholeart
OF n novice. On one side was 9Stout
man roaring aloud in the ageFcs of
tooth-drawing; on another, vicim to
the same "quccn of a disoases' sat
wocfully, with hand to iaY, con-
templating the torture OF tho stferor,
and Illuminating over his own aBpOach-
ing sorrow; here lay q stripping with
bandaged arm and cadaverou$ heck,
Just recovering with sigh fromthc fit
of syncope which had been indaed by
the operation of phlcbotomy, ai there
.,nolt, with sleeve up-turncdt tyoung
Esculapius, wounding. with knthlcss
lancet, tho blue vein in the plpjy foot
of girl as fresh rs q garlandE In one
corner was an, infant squahg and
plunging on its mothers lap in an
other tho leader of q facti9kdiscom-
fitcd ynnd hcad broken, Oaensing
over tho recollection Of his foil, and
groaning for the priest. Bqhll those
sounds of woe aud sufleript salutcd
the car of tic medical a&t with a
mere mechanical effect, and contin-
ued to prescribe with qe Itenance
unmoyed, amid tho twap Iof iron
pestles, tho squalling of cH ben, tho
vociferations OF the old ben, and
the means Of the young, seq tut from
beneath their hoods, calltn each in
order to his side, and attcndiy to their
wants in turn.
AT n door in tho railing Ms placed
an ablo-bodcd man, whosesdty IL was
to admit the patients oney one, to
see that no more should pasat q time,
and to prevent thom from gtering on
their return.
"Mary Mulcahy" cried he physi.
clan, reading from ticketyhich had
just been handed in.
- - Arnold woman hobhled h crptches
TO tho door. Jerry Dufunthe able
bodied man before mentiFrD opened
- 1t 10. admit hor., A rush. III made by
3 Tho MOB of patients ontsidel Tho old
woman was flung into ny doctors
arms, sand derry himself Yflstaggerod
: from his baiancc.' But, lula second
Horatids Cocclos, ho aFse in his
anger, and confronted thkpvaders in
tho breach of which thdyiad almost
possessed themselves lib physician
=, ffaye himself up for 9 lost nan when
he saw tho counter-scarp US furiously
stormed. But Jerry stoolis ground.
He thrust right and with his
clenohed fists until ho set he crowd
screaming and jostling hok again
without tho door, witt '3oro cause
OF complaint thai they I'D brought
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