Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-07-09
BROKEN HEADS ~ HEARTS,
SCIENCES In an Irish Dspcnsary Forty
Years Ago.

"Docthor. I'm here since mornin'n
"Docthor, let me go, an the heavens
bless you. I'm as wake as a piece of
wet paper.
GLORY to your soul, docthor, ashore.
an gi' me something for this threm-
blin' | have. ! DO be thrcmblin' al
ways, like a straw upon the water"
'Docthor, l hear great pain in my
foot, sir. l declare cried that bottle
full to-day morning, with it."
That was a fine physic you ga me
last night, long life to your honor"
There isn't bit ate, docthor, this
time back, but what get coRcen
again it the minute afthcr."
"Docthor, can make no hand o. my
head at all. these days"
"Oh, docthor, what'll | do at all
with these ears o mincP I'm partly
deaf always, an when ever do be,
| hear great sounds an noises. waves
dashin' again the bank. and birds
whistlin' an'-boo! an candlesticks:
an when I'm deaf entirely, its then |
hear all the bells in Ireland ringin' in
my ears
"Docthor, lhave great cypress upon
my heart"
That girl, sir that you saw yester-
day evening was bad entirely afther
you goin'; Oh. she began screechin' in
a manner, that if the priest was at the
doors, you'd think he wouldn't over
take her; an every bit of her SO hot,
that you'd imagine the clothes would
light about her, an her face the whole
time as red as if you threw a bowl o
blood in it"
''Docthor, a ra gal! Docthor, dar-
lin; Docthor, ashore! Oh, ma gra
hu! Ma gricn chree hu, Docthor! an
let me gor'
Such were few of the eloquent sem
tences addressed by the throng of pa
tients, without the rails, to Doctor
Jarvis, one of the attending physicians
to dispensary in a district of Ireland.
Accustomed to the din, he remained
with an undisturbed countenanoe, look
ing alternately into the haggard, ro-
bust, blooming, pale, fair, young and
ancient faces that were thrust forward
through the wooden rails, and solicit
ing his sympathy. Two or three young
disciples were hammering away at
their mortars in different corners, COM
pounding, like so many Cyclops, the
thunderDolts of this great dispenser of
health or OF its opposite. The scene
around him was one which might have
walked uneasy sympathies in the heart
OF novice. On one side was a stout
man roaring aloud in the agonics Of
tooth-drawing; on another, victim to
the same "gueen of a Diseases sat
woefully, with hand to jaw, con-
tempiating the torture OF the sufferer,
and ruminating over his own approach
ing sorrow; here lay STRIPPING with
bandaged arm and cadaverous check,
just recovering with sigh from the fit
OF syncope which had been induced by
the operation of phlebotomy, and there
knelt, with sleeve up-turncd, young
Esculapius, wounding. with ruthless
lancet, the blue vein in the pretty foot
of girl as fresh as a garland. In one
corner was an infant squalling and
plunging on its mothers lap, in an
other the leader of faction discom-
fitted and head broken, lamenting
over the recollection OF his broil, and
groaning for the priest. But all those
sounds of woe and suffering saluted
the ear Of the medical adept with a
mere mechanical effect, and he contin-
ued to prescribe with a countenance
unmoved, amid the twang of iron
pestles, the s9ualling of children, the
vOciferations of the old women, and
the means of the young, sent out from
beneath their hoods, calling each in
order to his side, and attending to their
wants in turn.
At door in the railing was placed
an able-bodied man, whose duty it was
to admit the patients one by one, to
see that no more should pass at time,
and to prevent them from lettering on
their return.
"Mary Mulcahyr cried the physi.
clan, reading from ticket which had
just been handed in.
An old woman hobbled on crutches
to the door. Jerry Duhig (the able.
bodied man before mentioncd) opened
it to admit her. a rush was made by
the mob Of patients outside. The old
woman was flung into the doctors
arms, and Jerry himself WIS staggered
from his balance. But, like a second
HOratius Coccles, he arose in his
anger, and confronted the invaders In
the breach of which they mad almost
possessed themselves. The physician
gave himself up for lost man when
he saw the counter-scarp thus furiously
stormed. But Jerry stood his ground.
He thrust right and left with his
clenched fists until he sent the crowd
screaming and jostling back again
without the door, with more cause
Of complaint than they had brought