Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-22

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eyes were smiling.
~ don't believe I coulG be accused
OF that, DOCTOR" I modestly asserted.
would you like to hear about It?
1t was this way. In the fall Of '96
wanted an assistant and sent notice
to the Baltimore college, as I did in
your case. They recommended q
james Stillman, who had done ex-
cellent work in college. won the Eu-
ropean fellowship, and was willing to
come to this little one-horse town to
make start.
Your research work In tuberculo-'
sis" interrupted.
Had nothing to do with it." re-
torted DR.. Leayitt irritably. "Any-
way, to make a long story short, Jim
StillmaH came and had the goods to
show. He was quick, bright, genial,
and had medical grounding that
was surprising. My wife took to him
from the first and he continued TO i'm
prove. The girls were all crazy over
him. for you may imagine that a
young college man, good looking and
smart, who had lived in Paris. Lon
don and Vienna, was quite some in
this town. The only thing about Jim
was that he didn't care rap about
the girls. He'd refuse invitation af-
ter invitation to card parties, dinners
and dances to stay home and smoke
with me and talk over some Of the
late discoveries in the medical jour-
nails. He had soma very original
ideas, toe. He came to live at our
house, and II my. wife wanted TO go
to some party or other he'd take her
and call for her, but she used to tell
me she scolded him both ways for
not. paying more attention to the
girls. The Price girls. the Kennedy
girl. and the Lords were all on his
trail, and Bessie Price was the pref
tiest girl III town unless It was Susan
Lord. But Jim was all for business,
and he and I got to be better friends
every day. Even when was called
down to Boston for few days, my
wife said he sat and talked with her
while every evening after dinner
and then went up to his room and
studied,
When Jim had been living with me
for about six months. and doing
splendid work, Margaret Scott came
homo from school, She had always
been fairly healthy and we were
shocked when her mother brought
her home before the end Of the term
Ill. Her mother called me in and
asked me what I thought was the
trouble with her. 1 never saw a girl
go off so. She was pale and languid
and had lost in weight. I tried the
tuberculosis test. but nothing there.
I suggested every ailment in the al
manac, but hers was brand new dis
ease. I called regularly for month
and Margaret was 70 better. One
day at church, always make it a
point to take my assistants to church,
Mr.. wilson, saw Margaret Scott,
whose mother made her go to church
il she was able to walk, and the poor
girl looked as if she could hardly
hold her head up; bloodless, weak,
shaky, and thin as rail. ! pointed
her out to Stillman and he had look
at her across the aisle. Next Sunday
she was Ill In bed and getting paler
every day.
zone evening I was discussing the
case with Stillman. I remember tell
Ing him I thought the girl was fading
away before our eyes. He said in his
quiet way that he had theory re-
garding the case and that II I would
let him put 1t in practice he thought
he could cure her. He said he had
been studying the external aspect of
her case for some time. Sc I told
him to sail right in, as I'd tried and
failed. He asked that I would not
interfere for two weeks. After that
he said I might call every Monday
and see how the patient was and II
there was no marked progress at