The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-02-10
MEDICAL NEoRMATIoN.
Some OF the DoIngs Of q Young Dakota
Graveyard Starter.

Doubtless as good an answer as any
to this would be: Before the patient
dies" II doesn't help tho subject
much after he is dead to have the
young physician who treated him go
around asking If it wouldn't probably
hare been better . hs=s given him q
sweat instead of putting q cake of ice
at his feet and administering a pint Of
lemonade.
1t also makes q good deal Of differ
ence whore the young physician goes
to seek his advice. l remember a
young physician named Slade who
came out to Dakota to practice. /
never so thoroughly realized before
what it was for a young physician TO
practice till / saw him administer a
different medicine to a patient every
fifteen minutes. 1t was practice for
him, but death to the patient. There
was an active immigration association
hard at work booming the town and
inducing settlers to locate in the yiein-
ity, but it couldn't make much head
way at building up the population 50
long as Slado kept practicing.
He was always very free TO ask adj
vice, but he always went to the drug
gist for it. The druggist i~nyariabIy
recommended q certain kind of patent
medicine which came in large bottles
at one dollar per bottle; dose, three
swallows every half-hom. He said
there was more profit in it than any
other medicine he had in stock. Slade
didn't think much of this medicine
and wouldn't prescribe it at all until
the druggist offered to do the fair thing
on the profits of all he helped him
dispose Of Even then he didn't use it
much; he said it produced no results
what he wanted was results-that re-
suits always followed his own line OF
treatment, and the result of his pratice
was death, still heirs were usually bet.
ter pay than recovered patients, and
as long as the immigration society
kept bringing in people ne WAS bound
to follow his own ideas of medicine.
Old Doc Barker, who lived out in the
country FIVE or six miles, always in
sisted on a poultice made on the hide
side of the skin of a black cat which
was killed atmidnight in the dark of the
moon. He said here you had common
sense and science to back it APP. Shade
and the druggist both looked on this as
being rather unprofessional and never
used it unless the patient had been adj
dicted to its use during former sick
nesses.
Slade used to admit that he needed
experience. He didn't believe in a
Young doctor acting asst he conldn,t
learn any thing. &c said lie wasn't
proud. So he used to practice on sick
horses when the owners would allow
him. He said he got sotne Of his best
points while treating horses. He was
once attending a large. rawboned bay
horse which was sick at the Red Front
livery barn. 1t was a peculiar case
and he asked the druggist what he
would recommend. Tho druggist
thought 3 few minutes, looked ia a
big, oyergrown book, which resembled
a city directory, and said he thought
that that patent medicine which came
at a dollar a bottle. three swallows
every thirty minutes, Was what the
horse needed. Slado shook his head
and vent behind the counter and GOT
q book, entitled Every Man His Own
Family Physician and Horse and Cow
n~ofo. - ord .vanF banb a. cha Iaew
After awhile he said that what the
horse needed was sleep. If he could
only get him to take 4 good nap he
would come ont all right. So he gave
him a lot Of morphine, darkened
the windows. and went back Il
the drug store and argued for
half an hoar with d man about tbs
catskin poultice. He told the man it
didn't stand to reason. If the poultice
was made on the hair side there might
be some sense in il, but on the hide side,
never. Then he went back to tho barn
and looked cautiously in. The horse
was lying perfectly still and sleeping
calmly. He went up every little while
all day. but still tho horse slept. He
said he never saw a horse sleep better,
He took half the people in town around
to peep through the crack to see thai
horse sleep He sat up hale the night
admiring the calm, peaceful sleep ths
horse had dropped into. He said thai
when no woke up he'd be q new horse.
When Slade visited his patient tn.
nexs morning he was somewhat
alarmed to find that he was still sleep
ing. He concluded that he would
awaken him. SO he ope0ed Inv door ant
wenti in. Ho walked up to Tile amima
and nit him 4 gcntle kick. StilIhe dis
not move. bnt continued to humber Iii
took hold Of his hind leg and gave il
short pull. II was cold and saH. Til
horse was dead. The hired man sais
he had died the day before shortly aftel
Slade gave him tho morphine.-E II
carrnth. rs Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Grants "Reminiscences.
For some time various paragraph
have been circulated reporting the ap
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