Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-01-20
b FRED YOUNG /.

a friend and family physician.
DE-. Parmeter. was trying to Jolly me-
out of an attack of liver trouble or
something Of that nature the other day.
and we gotSto talking of the difficulty
of young professional men getting their
start # IS 53s.
n There was 9 time, Z said the doctor,
when experience was considered the
great desideratum and no doctor that
hadn't q bald crown and white whisk-
ers had much Of 4 chance. But Of
late years such discoveries in the med
ical world have been made that what
Z doctor needs is to be kept up In his
profession. l started in the day when
old age was essential, and since I was
very young and looked like a boy Il.
had no show at all. Did I ever tell you
how I got my start?' i 1$1 5;t 5=..
Mo-. 5s IL =; D. ..:4% s..
4. IT set myself up to practice in
suburban town where very, rich man
"a Mr.. Ellington his residence.
| met him once on the train going oh
OF the city, andI with view to inns
pressing him with my medical erudi-
ton, 1 talked a blue streak about tox-
ms, and antitoSins, transfusions and
germ colonization. He seemed very
much interested, but that was when
Pasteur was just beginning his inves-
legations, and Pasteur was the father
of the whole business. was foolish
enough to hope that Mr. Ellington
would besso impressed with the inter
est took in the new field saw loom
ing up that if any offhis family became
i'll he might call me in. Whether he
didn't understand what I was talking
about or was welded to the expert
ence theory Of doctors value l don't
know, but the same old coot continued
to be his family physician. g.
One day my heart leaped in my
throat when Mr.. Billington's butler
came to my Office and asked If could
find it convenient to call. The fact Is
was finding it very inconvenient be-
cause 1 didn't make calls I went at
once, but what was my chagrin to be
taken to the stable. There were Mr..
Ellington. veterinary surgeon,
groom and a coachman standing over
a $500 horse, who was lying on his
side. evidently ready to give his last
kick. ....,: ~ - =.
II hope you won't feel insulted, doc (
tor" said Mr.. Ellington, 'at my call |
ing on you to save a horse, but he's q |
valuable animal. and my veterinarian
here has given him up Don't you |
think you can help us out?"
II wanted to say, why don't you
call on your old baldhead, who ISL
doubtless making thousand or two a
year out of you?' but I didn't. have
natural bent for making people feel
easy about their sick and special
aptitude for bolstering up the sick
themselves. I put on the wisest look
could and felt the animals heart
beat. I didn't need to tell him to put
out his tongue, for it was hanging out
already, and meanwhile I was think
ing Of some experiment to make. AS
for knowing what was the matter with
the horse, who couldn't tell me a sin
gle symptom, I hadn't the remotest
idea. Presently an idea occurred to
me. 1921. -
"I must run over to the drug store
said ~,
'Tom will go for YOU said Mr..
Ellington. -.
"sI must go myself. I don't know
what they've got that want. and l
must find OUT ...-. n. - r.. u: Z.
"Qf I started for the drug store, and
when I got there l said to the drug
gfst: Give me something that's rather
bulky and harmless I don't care what
1t is. must have it right off, =s
Gle looked about him, and. his eye
catching some coarse, bags, he said, Il
don't know Of anything unless you
take one of those bags of bathing
SALT. aas $50.
"The very thing said. Give me
one at once s.. @e sSS=z
Fortunately there was nothing
printed on the bags to give me away,
so seized one OF them and hurried
back to Mr.. Bellington's stable. When
got there i found that the yeterina-
rian had pronounced the horse dead
and had gone away in high dudgeon
because q real doctor had been called
in. which he considered a profession j
al insult. | looked at the horse and]
had no more doubt myself that bel
was dead than that 1 was alive. Nev-a
ertheless. taking handful Of the salt
from the bag. I sprinkled it on his
tongue. $:z5 . 35. " +: 5 81 :F
ut wasn't minute before that
tongue began slowly to move. It was
drawn into the animals mouth, the
salt was swallowed, and the tongue
was put out gain I dropped another
handful on it, and again Il was with
drawn and the salt swallowed:
'.'sWell, sir ! kept on feeding the
horse salt, which happened TO be ex-
actly what be needed, TIL he got up
and stood on his feet 81
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