Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-02-03
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Teaspoonful three times daily before eating.
''GAREAU."
"There! Let your wife take this.
You will find it good tonic. Your
wife needs strength; ! observed when
/ saw her last that she looked weak
and worn out am afraid you allow
her to work too hard. Give her
chance to build up: she is in no condi-
ton for hard work"
And the young physician, handing
the prescription he has just written TO
the stolid-faced man who stands hat in
hand before him, turns TO his desk as
if anxious to be rid of his visitor
The fellow takes the paper mechanic
ally and glances over the hicroglyphics
written thereon.
There amt nothin' to hurt her
here. is there?" he asks doubtfully.
The doctor looks up impatiently.
NO, of course not" he answers.
"You know, Doctor, she is expectin
to be sick every day. You know
The doctor laughs lightly. Ives. !
know" he says. "And hope you will
be the richer by fine son before long.
A bow who will b. of help to you. No.
the prescription have written is for
a tonic. 1t will not affect the other.
Now you will excuse me. am very
busy"
The man turns to go.
"Oh, by the way" the doctor cries,
Glow is Miss Dyke coming on?"
The man stops at the door.
n Al. drfo
asks.
sMiss Catherine, of course. DIR.
Wilbur has not informed me as to her
progress. He keers these things tc
himself"
The face of the man turns slightly
grave.
II don't think the old lady is long
for this world. SIR he answers. She
keeps to her bed entirely now. Mrs
Adrian amt very strong neither"
1T is not to be expected, in her deli
cate condition. Well. see to your wife,
Gardner. and if anything interesting
occurs. let us know at once. DIR. Will
bur will come. He will attend to the
case"
"All right, sir: and the sooner it's
over the better for me-" and he leaves
the room.
"And glad | am that the old doctor
will attend TO the case" he mutters,
walking slouchingly along the side
walk toward the drug store. II don
take much stock in these young doc
tors. They know too much, or think
they do"
The young physician turns to his
desk. and continues the study OF o
book which the entrance OF the man,
Gardner. has interrupted. He reads
for a short time and then with a ges'
ture of impatience, closes the volume.
and rises to his feet.
"All experiment" he mutters. "All
dependent upon the judgment and ex'
pericnce of the practitioners. Little
the student has to guide him in the
text books of the profession. AS all
men are not constituted alike, the
same medicine will not act alike on all
neople. So we must needs use our
iudrment: dose and watch, prescribe
and experiment, until by chance-and
chance only-we strike the seat OF the
disease, and perform the cure;
unless the patient, exhausted by
the treatment of experiment. gives up
the ghost before the cause has been
discovered. Keep up the strength OF
the patient says Crawford, by stimu.
lation. Subdue pain by the use OF
narcotics. Pain weakens and renders
the cure more difficult Bah! keep UP
the strength TO enable the sufferer to
stand the treatment of the physician.
Use the narcotics to suhdue the pain
produced by his experiments. That is
the case, usually. That is what it
means"
He has unconsciously spoken aloud
His words bitter, his gestures i'm
patient. A clever young man is Henri
! Gareau. A Young Frenchman, who
has been adopted when but child by
DIR. Ezra Wilbur, one of the most skill
ful practitioners of medicine in the little
town of West Chester, in the State OF
Pennsylvania. :.
The worthy doctor has taken him
when boy of six from brutal sot Of
father. who in a tit OF drunken rage
struck his wife blow that ended IN
her death. The man had been sen
fenced to the penitentiary for u tern
of twenty years. and the young boy
Henri. became an inmate of DIR. VIII
bur's peaceful home. AS the years
passed by, the boy developed a greai
mind. A brain of remarkable shrewd
ness and retaining power, showing
such adaptability for the study of med
icine. that the doctor determined tha'