The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-07

rona of them being poor misguided,
IGNORANT creatures who lived in QUIZ
of-the-way places and knew nothing
but solitude and engaged IN nothIhe
hut introSpection: others being Twins
Of how families manufacture
their intentional invalidS and DOCTORS
pamper their degenerate patents
Doctor Budd handled these cases with
consummate skill. a he a the
discriminating judgment to
them and the moral courage to apply
the remedy.
Some of his means were heroic N
the extreme. Many are the anecdotes
told Of his bizarre performances 70
bring the Wretched patients TO tneif
senses. Most Of these are true tales
unusual as they appear-Ior theS on
he su~bstantiated. He snatcned TIE
night cap from the head of one dear
cid who persisted in p
il on against his orders; he tei ~
his road-cart a nervous woman VINO
was afraid of everything under the
sun. and then dashed the horse to a
! gallop down the road-the patent was
never nervous again. Two V tluntGr-
live oed-ridden women were made TO
leave their long-Occupied couChes oy
clever devices which succeeded after
all other methods had failed. In one
case Budd made a fire under the BED,
whlcn was quickly vacated rot TO ne
! resumed; in the other, he began 10
uudress as il to share the bed Win q
maiden lady Of uncertain .ge-re-
sui: IL. the doctor thr' atenad to set
in a: enc side, the patient, Wit hai
not walked or left her bed In a year
or more, got out at the other side and
ran out of the house some distance
down the DAD Much as we may serl-
ously question h propriety OF these
actions, there can be no doubt that
! severe methods were in order and tina.
the end justified the means. II we
had long ago, even III mllder measure
pursued some such courageous tactics
with our nervous cases, we should not
now be nursing the dreaded Mysteries
or filling the SanatOrlumS with SO
many neurasthenic victims.
Of Doctor Budd's surgical skill it is
proper to speak more at length. He
possessed in a real sense the surgical
instinct. He was often quoted as Sd =
ing that he performed IN operation
only when kicked into it" and that
afterward he wished to hear no inore
about it" In spite Of this he lie most
Of the surgery in his immediate se:-
ticn Of country and got the reputation
Ct doing operations when they Were
even doubtfully feasible. This was
pc ssibly due to the fact nat Budd was
far ahead Of his time and muIe ag-
81 cssive than those around him. His
facilities We're always Of the Pc ,"est,
yet he had surprisingly good results
smother proof that successful surgery
depends more upon the man than the
place. For the most part Decor
Budd went into the country, or into
other towns, to operate, but he fire.
Cuently brought patients to his house
and operated even in his own
before his marriage he had -four rooms
in his house at Egypt where he quar-.
tered patients. They were frequenrly
thought on StretcherS from distant
neighborhoods, being sometimes on
the road as much as three days. He
would keep them until they were
ready to be moved.
Judd encountered the usual urgent
surgery which falls to the lot of one in
his position. He did his amputatiOns
dressed his fractures and treated hi.
wounds just as others would ordinarily
do. But he also undertook more for.
NAL and difficult work, such as ova-
riotomies. lithotomies and hernioto-
E1es. DIN them all with a daring
that was remarkable. II 1876 he ex.
hibited before the State Medical 81.
oiety at Fayetteville a very large ova.
rlan cyst, which he removed from g
woman who gave birth to a child with
IN twelve months afterward. He tit
many such operations in log cabins
without antiseptics or convenienccs
His operations for vesical calculus C.
very prevalent affection in Chatham
county at that time) were the admira.
ton of the profession Of the State
There is no way of knowing how man,
he performed. but the number wa:
large and the results good. Failure I,
record or report his cases (the beset.
Inns fault Of North Carolina doctors
certainly of the past generation) has
lost to us much that might be valua
PIE IN work. He simply woulf
not write his cases for pubIicat;o,
Thomas f. Wood pleaded with him
others begged him to tell of his wor,
but to no avail. The following mem
orandum in Woods characteristicaIi,
clear and fine hand writing was f,uni