The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-30

he didn't have breath enough, he was
short of breath, he couldn't walk ten
steps and bis heart went like kettle
drum. So the professor thumped on
him and put bis ear to his left breast
and began to ask the young doctors
questions about diseases of the heart
and they seemed to know right smart.
One said the heart had two beats to the
bar, and another said the reason the
darkey was short of breath was because
he didn't have enough Of it, and an
other said the valves were out of order,
and another thought that the clavicles
Of the sternuna were contracted, but a
knowing young man said there was
not enough oxygen is his blood. 1
noticed that when young man hesi-
tated and got things mixed the pro-
fessor was very kind and helped them
along just like DR.. Waddell used to
help US boys along in Latin when we
were at college.
"Quidam is pronoun, is it not, Mr..
Jones?"
"Yes, sir"
"Well, quidem is what-an adverb
is it not"
"Yes, sir-yes, sir. Quidam is a pro-
noun and quidem is an adverb."
"Correct, Mr.. JONES'" and Mr.. Jones
thought he had done wonders until his
report came out and he was put down
IS ir Latin.
"Well, what is the remedy for that?"
said the Professor. If his blood lacks
oxygen how can oxygen be supplied" !"
"Give him donic, sir" said young
man with a bad cold, San iron donic."
Then the book keeper wrote prescrip-
ton.
Good gracious, thought I! Has that
darkey got to eat whole donic? A
donic is a lump of iron as big as water
pail. But maybe he is not to eat it but
is to handle it. Maybe he is going to
dig in the mipes. 1t does make man
strong to dig up donics in the mines.
1t is like swinging pair of iron dumb
bells to get strong. But our boy told
me afterwards that it was not donic
but tonic. wish I knew as much
about the human frame as DR.. Ken
drick knows He put little glass
quill in the other darkey's mouth and
when he took it out and looked at it he
told the young doctors all about his
disease and how it came and what
must be done for him and then he be-
gun on the white man and asked him
what was the matter, and the man
pulled up the leg Of his pants and
showed an awful case of big leg and the
doctor said something about an ele-
phant and told him he had come the
wrong day and belonged to DR.. West
inoreland's clinik. Poor fellow,
thought 7. You are gone up. DR..
Westmoreland will cut that leg off in
ten minutes and smile. Next was in
vited into the dissecting room. Yes, I
was invited, and the big fat black jani-
tor who steals all the stif's opened the
door but I didn't 60 in. I saw enough
and one Whit of the oderiferous atmos-
phere satisfied me and I departed those
coasts. The young doctors laughed at
me tumultuously. There were ten
tables in there and cadaver on every
table, and some of them were split in
two and some dismembered, and there
were arms and legs hanging about on
the walls, and from some all the nerves
had been taken out like a bunch Of
strings, and from some all the muscles
had been taken out; and there were
backbones and haslets and spareribs
just like you see at hog-killing time.
And all this is to teach the doctors
anatomy, and it is all right, and if
man has any genius at all it does look
like be ought TO know how to treat
every disease and what to do for every
wound that humanity is liable to.
Those 125 doctors seem to be in earnest
and some Of them will make their
mark. Our boy came home the other
day and had darkey's ear wrapped up
in his pocket and wanted to tell his
mother all about its anatomy. For a
minute she didn't understand what it
was and asked him in amazement if he
had got to chewing tobacco. This is
darkie's ear that -" She rose for
ward and then backward, and was
more indignant than when I hid that
mole in the sugar dish. Ralph had to
leave the room and hide out the ear,
and she wouldn't let him eat dinner
until he had washed his hands with
lye soap and cologne two or three times.
But still she is proud of that boy and
tells how he used to speak speech and
say, "Friends, Romans and Country
men-lend me your ears" Little did
I think" she said "that be would some
day 60 about cutting them off from
dead negroes.N BILL ARP.
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