Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-04-03
IN SPITE OF HIM.


There neyer was a more popular
Young physician than DIR. TredIckar.
Ills manners were the perfection OF
the sympathetic, his tact and Judg-
ment were only equalled by his de-
yotion and skill, his personal magnet
ism was immense, and the cures ne
wrought were marvellous.
Fresh from the hospitals as he was,
and eager in the pursuit oil his SCI,
ence, many old families welcomed
hIm as likely to have newer knows
edge than the ageing physician who
had carried them through their life
time; and young families, just settIag
up for themselves, chose hln as likely
60 90 along tho road with them to the
end.
The event certainly justified their
choice. and reports of the young doc
TORS ability went through the country
eide 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 a
Gaze was so swift and sure that people
used to say that Dir. Tredickar could
tell what allied you by just looking at
you; and many good woman aver
red that she was more benefited by
his touch upon the pulse than by
another doctors prescription.
Very possibly she was, for DIR.
Tredickar gave very little medicine;
the case was extreme in which he
sent much custom to the druggist.
L II. Il
certain modicants that he was wont TO
administer, apparently potent, ana
made up under his own formula.
From peculiar liquid IN phlal he
measured one drop; II, by accident,
Il portion Of another drop left the
phiaI, the glass had to be rinsed and
The SINGLE drop tried again; to this
drop half a glass of sweetened
water being added, the patient was al
lowed a teaspoonful of the result ohce
IN six hours, if waking.
II was generally understood that
this liquid was something OF DR.. Tired
iakars own importation, difficult to
obtain and enormous in cost; and the
gratitude his patients felt for the
Kindness for his thus procuring and
keeping on hand what they could
hardly have procured for themselves,
WAS something excelled ouly by the
rapidlty with which they picked up
health and strength under It's effect.
Another of the remarkable tElngs
he was fond Of administering was
tiny pill that he always had about
him, and that he left IN small mum
bcrs to be taken ut morning and night,
under certain other directions, always
ordering that if the patient felt too
much braced on the second day, with
ringing ears or crowded sensations IN
the head, or Il pain in the left thumb,
the pills, however, 10 be taken three
DAYS, and then omitted for three days,
until cure was effected.
If these aud the liquid did not work
in such cases rs he prescribed them,
then DIR. Trcdickar seemed to take
another view of the case, and To de-
vote himself to it with personal
assiduty and fiery carncstneSs, and
to endeavor To bring the patient mp us
if on the strong wings OF all his
power and learning.
The fact was that Nr. Tredlckar be
licvcd In Nature lilo knew that IN
certain malignant phases of disease;
the physician and strong drugs and
heroic measures are as necessary as
the air we breathe; out he believed
that many whimsical, hypocondriac,
feeble minded, weary and worn out
patients were To h. held by a purely
hygienic treatment, by proper diet,
and other aids 10 health, and should
not have ono organ or another inter
fered with bu the strong poison of
drugs; and in very such instance nc
gave his priceless liquid aud little
dark pills, and let Nature and the
tonic elect of faith and hope do the
n living work And of course he had
many such patients, us many such
people abound; and the cures were so
satisfactory that his fame spread in
wide and wider circles, people who
had been hurt and not helped by
drugs leaving other physicians for
bis advice.
And he gave the advice, and his
little dark pills, too; and with some
Individuals relief came quickly, and
with others, where the system had
been still further upset by strong
medicines, pot so quickly.
If he had at any time doubts rs TO
the empiricism of this treatment, he
excused himself by stating the weak
ness of human nature, NJ Il by remem-
bering that rs a cure was what was
wanted, he was the one to decide now
To effect the cure.
But as DIR. Tredickar's practice in>
ceased he had not the time of divid-
i - t,,E
tesmal bits, that once he had, and,
frequently called away, he would
leave the task for pretty Dorothy
Merle to finish, and she would divide
and redivlde the tiny segmentS and
roll them between two fruit knives,
ard set them in the sun to dry, and
have all his boxes filed wits fresh
supplies of the little dark pills when
he came home
Dolly did that, no more faithfully
than she did everything else, though;
she was hoW,ANeeper, and maid OF all
worn and general overSeer for the
young doctor, and knew very we'll
how to take care of him, and of her.
self. too.
She was a very pretty thing, this
Young Dorothy Merle; not very tall
and rather slender, with dark brown
hair falling OF the low, white brow
in natural waves, with brilliant, hazel
brown eyes and small, fine features,
among which Wasa mouth whose rosy
lips parted over her teeth like seed
pearls. She very seldom smiled she
was grave little body, intent in her
beauty, farmers's daughter. brought
up to work, brought up to be a lady,
toe, with a good common school edu-
cation aad simple manners.
Often when the doctor returned
from his visits he left his study and
went out into her little sitting room,
where the fire was bright aEd the
hearth was clean, and sat down there
TO have 3 glass of milk ana a bit of
ginger bread, and to speak first of
some household matter, and afterward
of some patient; and presently he
found himself discussing his most
perplexing ease with her. and deriving
more or less benefit from her commoR
sense.
Somehow, this brief rest in helittle
sitting room became to him very
pleasant, and, learning more every
day, Dolly loved to listen. Often,