The Falls City tribune., 1911-01-27
ADoctor S Luck
BY FRED L. YOUNG
Copyright. 1911, by American Press
Association.

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 mel getting their
start,
"rhere was Il time" said the doctor,
"when experience was considered the
! great desideratum and ne doctor that
hadn't Il bald crown and white whisk-
ers had much of a chance. But OF
late years such discoveries In the med
zeal world have been made that what
a doctor needs Is TO be kept up In his
profession. | started in the day when
old age was essential, and since | was
very young and looked like u boy |
had no show at all. Did | ever tell yon
how | got my start?'
NO"
81 set myself up to practice in Il
suburban town where n very rich man
"a Mr.. B~illington-had his residence.
I met him once on the train going out
of the city, and, with a view to i'm
pressing him with my medical erudi-
ton, | talked Il blue streak about toX-
ins and antitoXins, transfusions and
germ colonization. lie 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 | saw loom
ing up that if any of his family became
i'll he might call me in. Whether he
didn't Understand what | was talking
about or WAS welded to the expert
ence theory of Il doctors value | 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 | coulG
find it convenient TO call. The fact Is
| was finding it 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, a veterinary surgeon, a
groom and a coachman standing over
n $1,000 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 n horse, but he's a
valuable animal, and my veterinarian
here has given him up. Don't you
think you can help us out?'
Il wanted to say. Why don't you
call on your old baldhead, who is
doubtless making Il thousand or two n
yoHr ont of you?' but | didn't. | have
a natural bent for making people feel
easy about their sick and a special
eD'itade for bolstering up the sick
Themselves. ! put OF the wisest look
| cou'd and felt the animals heart
beat. ! didn't need to tell him to put
cut lii tongue, for il was hanging ont
air .ade. and meanwhile | was think
ing Of some experiment to make. As
f9r knowing what vas the matter with
the hose. Who couldn't tell ne 4 sin
elo symptom. ! hadn't the ren4o5cst
idea. Presently an idea occurred t.
me.
- must run over to the drug store.
| said.
"'Tom will 90 for YOU said Me.
Ellington.
u must 90 myself. I don't Know
whist they've got that I want. and I
must find out
"OT I started for the drug store. and
when / got there | said to the drug
tist: Give me something that's rather
bulky and harmless. don't care what
it is. | must have il right Off
lie looked about him, and, his eye
catching some coarse bags, he said, I
don't know of anything unless YOU
take one of those bags of bathing
salt
1.-The very thing I said. Give me
one at once
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 l found that the veterina-
rian had pronounced the horse dead
and had gone away in high dudgeon
because q real doctor had been called
in, which he considered Il profession
al insult. | looked at the horse and
had no moro doubt myself that he
was dead than that | was alive. Nev-
ertheless, taking a handful of the salt
from the bag, ! s~prinkled it ON his
tongue.
ut wasn't a 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 il, and again it was with
drawn and the salt swallowed.
"Well, sir. | kept on feeding the
horse salt, which happened to be ex-
nctly what he needed, till he got up
and stood on his feet.
Everybody was astonished, includ-
ing myself, but you can bet my as
constituent didn't appear on the sur
face. dillingham; wrote me q check