The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-11-16

times draw for office patients. As
proceeded to put up some powders he
regarded me suspiciously for a moment
and then said:
"'See yere. doctor; hold on q bit
Some years ago when lived down in
ArkaDsaw had the shakes orful, n
quack down there gin me calermel,
witch salervated me thet bad lost
erbout half my teeth. Soon's l got 80
I could git eroun' went gunnin' fer
tibet quack, but somebody gin him .
PINT tibet was AFTER him n he cl'ared
out ] then tuck mortyal oath. m I'll
keep it, too. tibet ef any other Teller
gives me er dose err calermel I'll kill
him of / hangs fer it the mex minnit.
THE man looked as If he would keep
his oath as he repeated:
'''I say. now. that do look orful like
calermel. Be it calermelg'
"'Why certainly not fastened to
assure him. DO you suppose I'd give
you such poison as thatr'
".What be it, then?' he persisted.
".This powder? Well, you see, we
doctors are not in the habit of giving
orr secrets out to every body, but
know it will be safe with you, so Til
tell you. This is hydrarg. chlor. mite
..As you know, merely read from
the label on the jar. the abbreviation
OF the technical name for calomel.
He took the calomel with the quinine
1 gave him and went away entirely
satisfied"
do you always give medicine when
you find a patient who insists upon
having some?"
'sBy no means. A short time ago /
was called all in hurry to prosper
GUS merchant. His face was pallid.
and cold sweat covered his brow.
His weeping wife met me in the hall
and declared he was dying. The
man himself in feeble tones and with
choking voice confirmed this statement
l took seat by his bedside, felt his
pulse and examined his eyes. He inn
portuned me to haste with the ap-
plication of remedies, and his wife.
who had followed me into the bed
chamber. regarded me with reproach-
full eyes because of my deliberateness.
Instead of yielding to his request l
told him bit of gossip. He is an
ardent politician. and / repeated q
story told me by friend that day
about certain local politician we'll
known to both of us. 1t was very
funny, but failed to provoke my patient
to laughter. Instead. he interrupted
me several times during its recital with
urgent entreaties that l relieve his suf-
fering, declaring that the death dew
was on his brow and that his limbs had
lost all feeling.
Changing my tactics. / started up a
topic in which i knew he took interest
and adroitly presented it in such a
manner as compelled him to take the
opposing side. During the next quar-
ter of an hour he would begin an ap-
peal for relief. but my persistent, pur-
posed misstatement of fact SO worked
upon him that he would not complete
his demand, but broke off to confute
what had but then said Within a
half hour he was sitting up talking
animatedly and vigorously. with height
ened color of excitement in his cheeks.
Soon he arose from his bed and became
so animated that he strobe up and
down the floor, his wife having in the
meantime brought his study-gown,
which he put on.
when he was completely restored
in mind to normal condition, arose.
took my hat. and said, as was about
to leave:
1.-The next time you wish to take 9
ginger sweat don't drink more than 9
gill of the essence or extract, but if you
should don't mistake your condition
for that OF dying man. He had beer
troubled with some sort of pain; had
mixed ginger extract gith sugar, found
, it palataole. and swallowed within an
hour or so half hundred ordinary
, doses"
"You do find it needful to give breai
pills. sweetened water and other harm
less doses?"
Cant help it. If our patients would
but place entire confidence in us AND
take our word for it when we assur,
| them that they need no medicine, ",
wouldn't find such recourse necessary
. An estimable lady of highly wrough
/ temperament when but sixteen year
/ old, was married to coarse. vulga
! fellow. from whom she separated 1
} year or two later. Her troubles durinl
this period and the modification of tn
: notoriety attaching to the divorce pro
ceedings left her in anervous state an,
, she became filed with all sorts O