The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-08-15
Being in Convalssoent Stage He
DiscouTsol Upon Doctors.
us son PULLsHlM THROUGH SAFELY
Barlow Man Declares that Were Il
Not for Medical Science He and
King EDWARD Both Would
Have Gone Hence Last
Week.


a letter or not will try. The effort
will keep me from thinking about my
self. For month have be n playi &
Billy in the low giounds." but / had
a good doctor who has nursed me
night and day and Cheered me up and
comforted me and am on the up
grade, though as the Georgia crackers
say II am powerful weak" This doc
tor Is my son and he says he has not
forgotten how his mother and nursed
him for three long months In Florida
and saved his life ana now | shal, not
die If he can help it. take all his
medicine, quinine, strychnine, calomel,
spirits Of nitre capsules without num-
Der, and tonics, too, and If I get well l
will never know what cured me, but
he will. What would the world do
without doctors? King Edward and
would have died asst week
About twenty years ago had a spell
like this one, for l had been working
in the water all day tryi, g to dam up
the branch in the meadow so that the
children could 60 in bathing. That
night liked to have died, md old DR..
Kirk was sent for and worked on me
fOr three or four days and got me up
again. My wife told me then that if l
didn't be more careful of myself
wouldn't live out half my days. She
told me the same thing the other day,
and she knows Old DR.. Kirk is a
trump. He was our family Loctor In
til he got old and tined and moved
away to live with his children. Be-
fore he moved to this place from South
Carolina he had a love scrape over
there, and he had a rival, too, and they
fell out The girl wouldn't Lave either
one of them and the other fellow heard
that the doctor had told stories on him
to the girl and so after the doctor 10.
Gated here his rival wrote to him and
demanded a retra1it, or else a fight.
( The doctor wrote him a singer and re-
Unused to maze a retraxit, but would &C
Rcept his challenge and fight him until
Hades froze over, and as the fighting
code gave the challenged party choice
OF weapons and time and place and dis
lance ha should choose rifles at long
range and the next 10Th day of Febru-
airy as the time and the other fellow
must stay where he was and shoot over
this way and he (the doctor) would
stay here and shoot over that way and
both must aim high so as not to hit
anybody between them.
But l must stop now and take
breath. A good long breath is what
want. The old woman was asked what
disease her husband died of and she
said the doctors differed about it, but
she always believed he died for lack
Of breath. l don't want to go that way
was Illuminating about these physl
clans, for doctor is not the proper
name. Doctor means a teacher Of any
thing, whether it be science or art OF
law or pharmacy or theology. Physi
clan is. the right word It.is a very an
cient name for the professor. The
Bible tells how Joseph got the physi
clans to embalm his old father, but
do not think it was very popular pro
fession among the Jews, for it is men
toned only two or three times ant
with doubtful favor King Asa had &
disease in his feet and would not cal
upon the Lord for relief, but sent fol-
a physician, and he died and slept will
his fathers Then there was a woman
who had an issue of blood for twelve
years and had suffered much from
many physicians and spent all she haC
and was nothing better, but rather
grew worse. The Jews unto this day
do not give much patronage to physl
clans or quack medicines. I never
= knew but one Jew doctor though there
are few very eminent ones in the
large cities, for whatever a learned
Jew does he does well There is a doc
tor jacob in New York city who
stands at the head of the profession
and is consulted by the rich and grea
men of the nation.
Now, let me stop for another good
long breath When was a boy W.
didn't have but one doctor in the town
and be weighed 800 pounds and wai
never in a hurry. He left little babies
around ever and anon and when ont
came to our house the old cook told al
where he got them and she slyly point
ed to his corporosity. He had LITTLE
Office on the street and few shelves
with bottles on them containing calo