Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-06-08
''Been about that smallpox patient

disease through the 'phone Z"
All the way down from Glover came
an audible smile from the doctor, and
as it died away the reporter was re-
lieved by his positive assurance, "Not
q Bit"
"Then, tell me-" asked the reporter,
"is it really smallpox you have up
there ?"
$50 far as I am able to say" DR..
Campbell replied, "it is. 1have never
seen case of smallpox before. The
symptoms and developments in this
case have all along answered the
description of the disease, according
to Osler and other authorities, and il
it is not smallpox, I do not know what
it is. 1 think it must be smallpox.
"Maybe it is the same thing they are
having all around through the state ?''
suggested the reporter.
"That is what think" DR.. Camp.
bell replied.
"Smallpox, you know, kills folks,
and there are not many people dying
of this disease" the reporter OBJ
served.
"Yes; but there are exceptions to
all rules" replied DR.. Campbell.
Changing the subject somewhat, the
reporter asked DR.. Campbell for his
tory of the case, which he gave, and
which, in brief, is as follows:
The patient is Negro named John
King. He is not a Clover Negro but
had been seen about there before. He
came into the town on the Oath OF
May, at the time unwell, and applied
to DR.. Campbell for medical attention.
The doctor noticed suspicious symp-
toms of a character which he did not
like. The Negro was making his
home with the family of another
Negro about a mile-and.a-half from
Glover, and about the first step taken
by DR.. Campbell was to isolate the
patient and vaccinate those with whom
he had been in contact. King was
placed in cottonhouse, plank from
which had been removed in order to
facilitate the serving to him of food
and water. After that the doctor con-
tinued to give the case all the atten-
ton it seemed to require. There was
a high fever, the temperature at one
time reaching 104o. An eruption ap-
peared in the form of vesicles; first
on the face and then working their
way downward until they completely
covered the Negroes body. Afterward
these developed into pustules, and the
pustules are now drying up"
"Is the Negro pitted doctor ?"
"He is nowhere are several pits
on his face"
"Will they be permanently
81 can't say about that"
"Where does he say he contracted
the disease? ?"
"He does not know, or at least if he
does, he lies about it. He claimed
that he had not been in Yorkville or
any other town since last fall. After
ward the Negro he is with produced a
letter that he had written from Cataw-
ba Junction. He owned to having
written the letter but said he did not
Glow it to be known that he had been
at Catawba Junction. I understand
that he is from Bullock's Creek town.
ship, and I think he is fugitive from
justice"
"Well, how did you come to under
take his case?"
"He came to me and I considered it
my duty to 90. If it was smallpox, it
struck me that that was all the more
reason why the case should he look
ed after. Otherwise there is no telling
where it might be spread to. We doc
tors, you know, have not got much
choice. Where duty calls, we've got
to CO."
"They say down here that you are
living in tent. How about that?"
"There is nothing of it further than
when the case first developed, Captain
Smith proposed that if J. took the dis
ease he would give me his tent, and l
told him l would use it. But have
not considered it necessary, and am
still at home"
"People afraid of you much ?"
"Some of them are. Some don't
like me to come about them. How
ever, have all along taken such pre-
cautions as to satisfy me that whatever
the disease is, there is no danger of my
spreading it,"
"Do you think there will be any
spread of the disease ?"
"Of course I cannot say, certainly /;
but, in my opinion, there is no special
danger"
Further inquiries developed the fact
that the sick Negro, whatever is the
the matter with him, has no means
with which to pay anything like the
value of DR.. Campbell's services. Of
this DR.. Campbell was fully aware at