The Red Cloud chief., 1895-11-01
CHAPTER /.
Cit. Quinia OF Ferri
Spts. Nini Gal.
Aqua Distillat.

u, CIE.
Tsaspoonful three times daily before eating.
"GAREAU."
There! Let your wife take this.
Ion will find it a good tonic. Your
wife needs strength: ] observed when
/. ! saw her last that she looked weak
: and worn out. i am afraid You allow
her To- work toe hard. Give her "a
chance 70 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
II anxious to be rid Of his visitor.
The fellow takes the paper mechanic
ally and glanccs over the hieroglyphics
written thereon.
There amt nothin' to hurt her
. here. is there" he asks doubt.ully.
The doctor looks up impatiently.
"No, of course not" he W
"You know, Doctor. she is expectin'
TO be sick every day. You know"
The doctor laughs lightly. "ies, l
know" he says. ''And | hope you will
be the richer by n fine son before long.
A boy who will b. Of help to You. No,
the prescription | have written is for
a tonic. II will not affect the other.
. Now YOU will xcu me. l am very
, busy
THO man turns to go.
"Ob, by the way the doctor cries.
GLOW is Miss Dyke coming on"
The man stops at the door.
Miss Catherine or Mrs. Adrian"' he
asks.
Miss Catherine. of course. DR..
Wilbur has not informed me a to her
progress. lie keeps these things to
himself
The ia 90 of the man turns slightly
grave.
Il don't think the old lady is long
for this world, sir" he She
keeps 10 her bed entirely now. Mrs.
Adrian amt very strong neither"
1T ie not to be expected, i'm her deli
cate condition. Well. see to your wife.
Gardner, and IL anything interesting
occurs. let us know at once DIR. Will
bur will come. lie will attend TO the
case"
.'Ali right, sir: and the sooner it's
pver the better for me-" and he leaves
! che room.
And glad I am that the old doctor
u attend to the case" he mutters.
hiking sloucb;rgly along the side
alA.oward the drug store. ~ don't
M Inch stock in theso young doc
~ They know too much, or think
The young physician turns to his
4rsk. and continues the study of a
book which the entrance of II man,
"ardner. has interrupted. lie reads
Ior a snort tim q and then with a GEES
, ture OF impatie nee, closes the volume.
and rises to his feet.
..An experiment" he muttcrs. "All
dependent upon the judgment and ex-
p~eriencc of the practitioners. Little
the student has to guide him in the
text-books of the profession. Az all
men are not constituted alike. the
same medicine will not act alike on all
1cople. So we must needs use our
Judgment: dose and watch, prescribe
and experiment, uxtil by chance-and
ehance only--we st-ike the seat OF the
disease, and perform the cure:
unless the pate 1T, exhausted by
the treatment of experiment, gives up
the ghost before tle cause has been
discovered. Keep up the strength OF
the patient says Crawford. by stimu-
lation. Su bdue pain by the use of
narcotics. Pain wcakens and renders
the cure more difficult Bah. keep up
the strength to enable the sufferer to
stand the treatment Of the physician.
Use tn. narcotics to subdue the pain
produced by his experiments. That is
the ease, usually. That is what it
means
He has uncOnsciorsly spoken alond.
His words bitter. his gestures inn
patient. A clever young maj is Henri
Gareau. A young Frenchman, who
has been adopted when but u child by
DIR. Ezra Wilbur, one of the most skill
full practitioners of medicine in the little
town of West Chester, in the State of
Pennsylvania.
The worthy doctor has taken him
when "a hoy of six from u brutal sot OF
a father. who in II fit Of drunken rage,
struck his wife "a blow that ended i'm
her death. The man had been SEN
fenced To the penitcntiary for Il term
of twenty years. n the young boy,
Henri. became an inmate Of Ir. Will
y bur's peaceful home. As the years
passed Ivy. the boy developed u great
mind. a brain of remarkable shrewd-
ness ard retaining power, showing
such adaptability for the study of med
icine, shat the doctor determined that
heIsbould become II physician. bcliev-
ing that the day would come when
he would make his mark in the
world. become a bright and shining
light in the profession which the old
HuH ihNtu Dfttfi tissh Nv a.
profession which had filed the place
of wife and children % him: for he had
never married.
The Young a was sent TO the eel
ebrated college of tie State-Jcffer-
son College, Of Philadelphia, and
graduated with the highest honors.
lie then served II term among the hos
pitfalls, and leaving them, was taken
into partnership by the old man, who,
as he grew older. felt the need OF
young brain and energy to assist him
IN his extensive practice.
Gareau was n faithful s~tudent,a con-
= scicntious physician. lie really loved
his profession, but oft-times felt dis
gusted, dishcartcned, that there was
so much left TO conjecture: so much
dependent npou the ideas OF the man;
70 much incompletencss in the glorious
sNiencc OF life and death; such con-
Trajectory statements. oven I'm the