The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-09-20
THE DOCTOR AT
 PLEASANT HILL
rcoDyr,ra,. oa. by Q. B. Lewisl

mittee's spokesman. said to him:
 "Suangcr. do ye know yer bizness as a doctory'
 els thar any critter yere as says ! don'tY' demanded the doctor as his right hand went back for bis gun.
 eve want somebody who kin tell broken leg from a case Of typhod fe- ver.- continued Jim. "and if ye are the man the Job Is open. The last critter took a skip bekase he treated Tom Bar. lum fur dyspepsia Instead ot broken rib. should ye make any sieh mistake as thnt'-
 "I never make medical or surgical blundcrs." stlniy interrupted the new doctor as his hand went back again.
 "Are ye a sensitive cussF'
 "As to my purfeshun, yes"
 And the stranger drew his revolver from lts holster and looked around him for human target. The committee ad- hired his action He was a doctor with sand. He was proud Of his profession and would light for it The next day he entered upon hls 'jOb." and word went about the camp that we had fighting doctor and that there was to be no fooling with him. He had a shanty by himself and he said he had with him in bis satchel all necessary drugs and surgical instruments lt was a week before he had case. Then Abe Johnson had an attack of bilious eoHc-that Is. a dozen of us pronounced it bilious collie. when the doctor arrived and felt Of his pulse and looked at his tongue and said lt was the beginning of a serious case of dropsy. As he said lt his hand went back to his gun. and nc looked around and listened for pro testntlons There was none, and be ordered that Abe shOuld be stood on his head for Ave minutes Co let the Hood leave his feet and then stripped of an hls clothes and then wrapped In water soaked blanket The water was tee cold at the time. and lt took four of us Co cct the blanket around the yelling and struggling Abe and keep lt there for an hour The cure was complete. There are things which even bilious collie has Co give in to. and the way we treated Abe would have scared the yellow fever out of camp in a hurry.
 This remarkable cure of "dropsy" was one for the new doctor, but he didn't come out quite SO well with his next case. which was that ot JO, Singleton. Joe complained Of pains in his head. a terrible backache and a dry throat. and the doctor said it was a cnsc of catarrh ot the stomach. He had h.s hand on the butt of bis pistol as hc looked around Co see who differ ed with him. but nobody opposed his diagnosis. He left a powder to De Ei.cn every thirty minutes. and the haif 1ozeu of as who tasted it was sure lt was nothing but ginger. At the end of two days the patlent wos worse. md Che doctor bled him and also rais. ed blister on the stomach and order. ed thc patient Co drink two quarts Of bot water. Nothing ayailed. however. and at the end of ten days Joe expired. There was no question but what the Lortl had removed him ln spite of all that medical science could do. There might have been, but the doctor said lt was SO. and be said it while toying with bis gun. and it seemed best to let him have bis way.
 A few days later old Tom Hastings fen over the rocks and broke his collar bone. The doctor was sent for. and he felt Of Tom's pulse and looked at his tongue and dallled with the collar bone, and by and by be said:
 "You had a fall, but your collar bone Is only bruised What ails you is or ganlc weakness Of the heart, and if you don't do exactly as I tell you you'll be a dead man in a week"
 "But he can't raise bis arm. and that shows a broken collar bone." protested Toms chUm.
 aDocs ltT' demanded the doctor as he felt for his gun. q don't think it does. If there Is any one here who wants to pick me up on my diagnosiS why"-
 That was enough. He was not picked up He dosed Tom with some of that ginger. ordered starvation diet and blis.rrcd the solcs Of his feet Co draw the blood from his heart. After four days of this treatment Toms chum took him over the mountain to Silver City. and there a doctor fixed him up. It was all iu the collar bone. The ST. yer City doctor didn't SO back on the profession. however. He explained that all the symptoms pointed SO strongly . Co heart disease that it was only by luck and chance that he caught on to the collar bone.
 Our doctor suffered somewhat in his reputation now and then. but be bad been with us six weeks and was carry. lng things with a stif hand when Pete Harper was struck by a flying stone and bad bis skull fractured He was lying unconscious when the doctor ar rived, and as nobody spoke of the frac- ture the medlco felt him over and final iy observed:
 @Thls Is a case of epileptic dts. and some of you hold bis arms while l bleed him"
 "Cuss yer Cts. but he's bin bit on the headF' shouted Pete's chum.
 'arhis Is a case of epileptic dts" con tinued the doctor as he reached for bis
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