Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13
S Luck
BY FRED L. YOUNG
Copyright, 1911. by American Press
Association.

My friend and family physician,
DR.. Parmeter, was trying to jolly me
out of an attack of liver trouble or
something of that nature the other day,
and we got to talking of the difficulty
of young professional men getting their
start.
"There was time" 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 a chance. But Of
late years such discoveries in the med
ical world have been made that what
a doctor needs is to be kept up in his
profession. l started in the day when
old age was essential, and since was
very young and looked like boy I
had no show at all. bid ever tell you
how / got my startT'
mo"
81 set myself up TO practice in
suburban town where very rich man
"a Mr. Billington-had his residence.
met him once on the train going out
of the city, and, with view to i'm
pressing him with my medical erudi-
| ton, l talked blue streak about tox-
ins and antitoXins, 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 be so impressed with the inter-
est took In the new field l saw loom
ing up that If any of his family became
Ill h. Elght call me In. Whether he
didn't understood what l 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.
One day my heart leaped in my
throat when Mr.. Billington's butler
came to my office and asked If l could
find 1t convenient to call The fact Is
I was finding 1t very inconvenient be-
cause / didn't make calls. went at
once, but what was my chagrin to be
taken to the stable. There were Mr..
Ellington, n veterinary surgeon, a
| STOOlu anu u ONCi
a $500 horse, who was lying on his
side, evidently ready to give his last
kick.
81 hope you won't feel insulted, doc
tor" said Mr.. Ellington, Eat my call
Ing on you to save horse, but he's
valuable animal, and my veterinarian
here has given him up. Don't you
| i,I, ha1
81 wanted to say, why don't you
call on your old baldhead, who Is
doubtless making a thousand or two
year out of youY but didn't. 1 have
a natural bent for making people feel
easy about their sick and a special
aptitude for bolstering up the sick
themselves. l put on the wisest look
could and felt the animals heart
beat l didn't need to tell him to put
out his tongue, for 1t was hanging out
already, and meanwhile 1 was think
ing of some experiment to make. As
for knowing what was the matter with
the horse, who couldn't tell me sim
gle symptom, / hadn't the remotest
idea. Presently an idea occurred to
me.
,"I must run over to the drug store,
I said.
"'Tom will go for you,' said Mr..
Ellington.
"T must go myself. I don't know
what they've got that l want, and l
must find OUT
"Off | started for the drug store, and
when I got there I said to the drug
gist: Give me something that's rather
bulky and harmless. l don't care what
1t is. l must have it right off,
"He looked about him, and, his eye
catching some coarse bags, he said, L
don't know Of anything unless you
take one of those bags of bathing
SALT
"'The very thing said. Give me
one at once
printed pn the bags to give me away
SO I seized one of them and hurried
back to Mr.. Bellington's stable. When
I got there I found that the veterina-
q rian had pronounced the horse dead
and had gone away in high dudgeon
because a real doctor had been called
in, which he considered a profession
al insult l looked at the horse and
had no more doubt myself that he
was dead than that I was alive. New
ertheless, taking handful of the salt
from the bag, sprinkled 1t on his
tongue.
"It wasn't minute before that
tongue began slowly to move. 1t was
drawn into the animals mouth, the
salt was swallowed, and the tongue
was put out again. dropped another
handful on it, and again 1t was with
drawn and the salt swallowed.
"Well, sir, l kept on feeding the
horse salt, which happened to be ex
actly what he needed, till he got uI
and stood on his feet.
Everybody was astonished, includ
ing myself, but you can bet my as