The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-29

| Our big, t2t doctor naO slOp-W
didn't call it sn ofice-and used K
peep il al the door sometimes and looE
at his little bottles on the shelves.
was sent there once for some licorice
root and some cinnamon bark. There
! was mysterious box standing up in the
corner, e long narrow box about big
enough to hold an old-fa.hioned clock
a erandfather's clock-ald the door was
open little and ] saw an awful thing
in there, a skeleton suspended from a
screw in the skull. There we're dark
cavcrnous holes for the eyes, and hole
for the nose, and there were jaws with
teeth il them and they looked fierce and
malicious. l had little primer at
homo, and it had pictures in it. One
was picture of a skeleton with scJthe
in his hand and l had learned the
lines:
"Time cuts down all,
Both great and small"
and thought had discovered where
this old rascal was kept hid. He was
in that box. 1t was losg time before
recovered from those childish super
stitions. One time had long spell Of
fever. and that old doctor bled me till
I tainted, and he wouldn't let me have
any water, and when ! got delirious l
thought that he had that skeleton on bis
back, and was to be cut down with
scytho blade. He bled me several
times-fvc little scars are on my arm
yet. Bleeding wss big thing then.
Mark Harding says bis arms are just
tattooed with scars. Ireckon they bled
more in Marks day than IN mine, for the
older man is the more scars be has;
and Mark says be has got forty. l can
tell low ola a man is by lis scars. Mark
SAYS that ''beeding was q good thing
and ought not to have been abolished.
That these modern doctors are always
talking about blood poison, blood pol
son. Well, if the blood is poisoned,
why not tai Ike it outa Bleed q man un-
til be can hardly wag, and let new blood
form that is not poisoned"
Bat we lived-blood or nc blood
water or no water-doctors or no doc
tors. The Baptists lived and the Pres
byte.ians lived, for they say that Bap-
lists don't die until their time comes,
and predeetination saves the Presby-
terians; but it isa wonder that any Meth
odists were ever raised in these phleboto-
my days. We never had any medicine
except castor oil and calomel, and epson
salts and jalap, and number six and
sheep saffron tea, and some jswbreaklng
tooth pullers that we're made just like
these crewbar hooks that you turn over
a log Nth at a sawmill. There were
some patent medicines, like paregoric
and Bateman's drops, and Godfroy's cor
dial and opedeldock that were kept IN
the store, and they we're good, too. But
the noble science has made progress,
and like it because it offers such q
slim chance for q fool. We've got q
boy studying medicine, and are hopeful
of him-of course we are. His mother
thinks he will be great surgeon, for he
is the seventh son, and when lie was
lad our peacock got his leg broke, and
I was about to kill him to put the poor
thing out of misery, but Ralph begged
me to give the bird to him; and he made
some 81 pliuts out of big cane and fixed
him up in a swing, and be got well; and
another time be sewed up 8 bad cut on
one of our mules; and he just loved to
pick out splinters or get cinder out OF
vour eye, and so we consented to his
being doctor, and he is attending lee
lures in Atlanta, and the other day l
called to see him at tie college. 1t was
a kind of recess when I got there. l
was introduced to DR.. Kendrick, and he
was mighty kind and said they were
lust about to perform on clinik, and
invited me in. I thought that It was
some kind of electric machine, but
when I got in the room there were 1875
Young doctors sitting all around on tiers
of seats that got higher and higher 30
that all of them could look down on the
little circular pit at the botton--a little
pit about ten feet across and looped
like it was built to fight chickens in. l
heard that the boys did fight chickens
there, on the sly, sometimes. The cllnlk
was a revolving table that had cot on
it, and was placed IN the middle OF the
pit. DR.. Kendrick went in first and |
followed along with sick white man
and two sick d5rkies. All of q sudden
the Young doctors commenced cheering
and so took chser and sat down. l
didn't know whether they were cheering
the professor or the sick men. rose Cor
ward and took another cheer and they
cheered again. The professor then in
troduced me to the audience and | came
to perpendicular attitude, and they
cheered again and again and took my
cheer. After this little episode was
over the professor asked one of the
darkies what was the matter with him
and he said he didn't have breath enough
he was short Of breath, be couldn't
walk ten steps and hi. heart went like
| k!ttlc drum. So the professor thump-
ed on him and put his ear to his let'
breas. and began to ask the young doc-
tors questions about diseases Of the
heart, and they seemed 70 know right
| smart. One SAID the heart had two
beats to the bar, and another said the
l lo2rC lSu tNO DI@ClCS dIO WV 'SHstA-o
quists, and another said the reason the
| darkey was shor. of breath was because
he didn't have enough of it, and anothe.
said the valves were out OF order, anc
smother thought that the clavIc!es OF TIT
ssernum were contracted, but knowing
Young man said there was not enougE
oxygen in his blood. | noticed tina
when young man hesisated and go
[ things mixed, tho professor was yer.
kind and helped him along just hk'
lDr. Wsddell used to help US boys along
Ein Latin when we were il college
| "Quidam isa pronoun, is it not Dir
Jonesfn eyes, sir "Well. quidem
what? an advcrb, is it not?' Eyes, al'
yes, sir. Quidam i; an pronoun ao'
ouidem is "a adverb. Correct, hE
| .jonea." And M Jones thought nc ha
done wonders until his report cane ou
and he was put down As in Latin. eve
what is the remedy for that" said th