Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-02-06

MtShVy.4 nino 0Hu oNio houSJ WOiC
just about to perform on the clinik
and invited mo in. / thought it was
some kind of electric machine, but
when l got in the room there were
1876 young doctors sitting all around
on tiers of seats that got higher and
higher so that all of them. could look
down on the little circular pit at the
bottom--a little pit about ten feet
across and looked like it was built to
fight chickens in. / heard that the
boys did fight chickens there on the
sly some times. !f3
The olinik was a revolving table
that had cot on it aid was placed
in the middle of the pit. DR.. Ken
drick went in first and I followed
along with a sick white man and
two sick darkies. All of sudden
the young doctors commenced cheer
ing and 80 I took a cheer and sat
down. / didn't know whether they
were cheering the professor or the
sick men and for fear they would
think I was sick I rose forward and
took another cheer and they cheered
again. The professor then intro.
duced me to the audience and I
came to perpendicular attitude and
they checred again and again. I
took my cheer. After this little
episode was over the professor asked
one of the darkies what was the
matter with him and ne said he
didn't have breath enough, he was
short of breath, he couldn't walk
ten steps and his heart went like a
kettle drum. So the professor
thumped on him and put his car to
his left breast and began to ask the
young doctors questions about dis
eases of the heart and they seemed
to know right smart. One said tie
heart had two beats to the bar, and
and another said the reason the
darkcy was short of breath was
because he didn't have enough of it.,
and another said the valves were out
of order, and another thought that
the claviclcs of the ste,7aatnn were
contracted, but knowing young
man said there was not enough
oxygen in his blood. i noticed that
when a young man hesitated and
got things mixed the professor was
very kind and helped them along
just like DR.. Waddcll used to help
us boys along in Latin when we
were in college.
"Quidam is pronoun, is it not,
Mr.. Jones ?"
eyes, sir"
"Well, quidem is what--an advcrb
is it not?"
eyes, sir-ycs, sir. Quidam is a
pronoun and quidem is an adverb."
"Corrcct, Mr.. JONES'" and Mr..
Jones thought he had done wonders
until his report came out and he was
put down 45 in Latin.
"Wcll, what is the remedy for
that ?" said the professor. If his
blood lacks oxygen how can oxygen
be supplied ?"
"Give him 6onic, sir" said a
young man with a bad cold, can iron
donic." Then the book-kecpe,
wrote prescription.
Good gracious thought ]! Has
that darkey got to cat whole donic
A donic is lump of iron as big as q
water pail. But maybe he is not to
eat it but is to handle it. Maybe he
is going to dig in the mines. 1t does
make man strong to dig up donics
in the mines. 1t is like swinging 9
pair of iron dumb bells to get strong
But our boy told me afterwards that
it was not donic but a tonic.
wish / knew rs much about the
human frame as DR.. Kcndrick knows
He put little glass quill in the
other darkey's mouth and when he
took it out he told the young doctors
all about his disease and how il
came and what must be done fol
him and then he begun on the white
man and asked him what was the
matter, and the man pulled up tht
leg of his pants and showed an awfu
case of big leg and the doctor sale
something about an elephant and
told him he had come the wrong
day and belonged to DR.. Wcstmore
lands clinik. Poor fellow, thought
]. You are gone up. DR.. West
morcland will cut that leg off in ter
minutes and smile. Next / was
invited into the dissecting room
Yes, was invited, and the big fa1
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