HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1885-10-23, Page 6`THE TWO DOCTORS,
FOUNDED ON EXPERIENCE,
'The New England village of N--contain-
td two rivet doctors, both of whom were al-
so rivals f ,r the favor of the lovely Mise
3uIle, Deane. Dr, Simpson and Dr, E mmens
wore two quite different individuals, Dr.
Simproa was somewhat more polished exter-
nally, more conventional, more fresh from
his books, more given to routiue, and, like
many other physicians lately graduated, felt
that he could walk right up to a patient, feel
tot his pules, see his tongue, look wise, and
then write off a Latin prescription that
would so Ater the disease to the winds. Dr.
Emmons was formal, less fettered by the
rchoole, lives close to" -nature, and, seeing
low predisposed all men are to run in ruts,
strove to think for himself, and to adapt hie
`remedies to the condition and temperament
est' the patient. His hair was not so intmao-
talately smooth as that of Dr. Simpson and
Tale coat was not quite so fashionable, but he
,poeseseod a nor le head and a genial soul
shone out from his whole face, while the
earnest contact of his hands with those of
his patients as he greeted them seemed to
give them new cheer and strength.
Both physicians were frequent visitors at
the residence of Mr. Deane, and both con-
sidered it a great favor to have the society
and sprightly conversation of the beautiful
Ella, whose swept simplicity of manner seem-
ed to signify that she was quite unconscious
of her own ohermit. Mr. Deane himself
had a must tender effsction for his daughter,
and she in turn leaned on hor father with
.all a d.tughter'a love.
G=radually it became apparent to all that -
rEila's health was failing, and that her step,
- -usually so elastic, was growine languid and
iucr face becoming pale, while a severe cough
was setting in. Dr. Simpson informed her
lather that she was in a serious condition
and wae rapidly running into phthisis pul-
monalis Dr. Emmons also informed him
that her case, though not yet dangerous,
wasleadiug into co=aamption and should be
attended to at once Mr. Deane, noticing
what learned words Dc: Simpson was in the
.habit of using and that he designated her
disease phthisis pulmonalis at once, while
Dt. Emnnoes didn't know any better than to
call it consumption, concluded to employ the
formor to treat his daughter. In fact, he
hadn't the least idea that both terms meant
the same thing and that Dr. Emmons gener-
ally used plain Engl sh when talking to un-
professional people.
Dr. Simpson chuckled to himself over the
fact that his system of technical claptrap
,'sad overawed Mr. Deane and gained his
,point. "Cure her Y' said he to himself,
of course I shall pure her in a little while,
and she in her gratitude will easily be led to
eontmit herself to my care and keening for
the rest of her mortal life. As to Dr. Em-
mons, I pity him somewhat, but he is evi-
••dently not scientific and has lost the day.
-She must have some cod-liver oil for her
lunge and some iron to tone up her blood,
-for she ie afflicted with amastia."
With these thoughts, the confident Simp-
Ilcn went forward to put his theory into
practice, wholly unalnscions of the fact that
there were causes lying beck of these con -
millions of stomacn and lungs that must be
•reached if anything permanent was to be
seffected,
" P.eposterous !" eatet Dr. Emmons to
'himself, when he heard that cod-liver oil
and iron were .being forced down into a
:stomach that was 80 weak as to be unable to
assimilatee some of the ai pier foods. " It
looks now as if that angel girl was to be sac-
ariEced to ignorance, for the real cause of her
,00resent difficulties will not be touched."
Dc. Emmons did not say this before the
'world at large, for they would have consid-
ered it as a manifestation of professional
- jealousy ; nevertheless, he grieved night and
day over the course wbi:h he felt sure would
•destroy that lovely temple of a hnmen life•
A few weeks served toprove the truth of his
fears, for Ella steadily failed, the hectic
iilush made its appearance more intensely
and her cheoke grew hollow, The poor girl
'was even tortured by blisters, while her
stomach was filled with indigestible com
.pounds. Finally, Dr. Simpson bad a con-
sult tion with other physicians of the same
stamp as himself, and as a result it was com-
municated to Mr. Deane that he must pre-
pare for the worst, as Ella's case was getting
beyond human power to save.
Mr. Deane was almost beside himself
with excitement, and turning sternly to the
doctor, he exclaimed :
" Doctor Simpson, you have wronged me
in this matter. When I placed my daugh-
ter's can in your hands she was not very
'low, and you declared that you would have
her all right in a little while. Instead of
that she has grown worse. My daughter
herself declared that you were not reaching
her chief d ffleulties, and now I have come
to the conclusion that you are sciontific only
in the use of big words. Dr. Simpson, I
want you to know that that dear girl is all
.1 heve in this world, and if she dies my sun
will have gone from the sky, and I shall
never want to see your face again."
This was uttered with tears and an energy
that made the doctor tremble ; but at the
same time he tried to justifyhimself, declare
ing that God's providence is inscrutable and
beyond human power to bend.
" It is more inscrutable," said Mr, Deane,
•" that a man can spend years at a medical
•college, and then when he commences pram
tieing makes people worse than they were
;before. Allow me to say that I shall have
no further use for yourservices."
It needed a thunderbolt of righteous in-
ignation like thin to setthe conceited young
man to thinking and to make him feel that
something besides mere druggist's stuff
should bo weed for upbuiiding human aye-
- terve,
Mr. Deane went to Dr, Emmons and beg -
gild him to make the moat peraistont efforts
' to save his daughter, although a council of
medical men had considered the case quite
',hopeless
1)r. Emmons at once stated that he had
•,given him a severe and dies uraging case to
deal With, althongh it might have been
easily controlled at first. However, he
would hope to save her, although it would
be necessary for hor to undergo a process
for eliminating the impure elements caused
by the disease and the treatment that might
for the time being almtet overwhelm her.
When Dr. Emmons went in to see Ella,
'she sent an appealing look into his very
xoul, exclaiming, gently, " Save me, deotor,
save me, I am not afraid to go to the other 1
ilft, and sonietimes I wish for its blessed
rete, but my dear father would be dfsoonso•
late, and I feel that I mast do some impor-
tant work here before I go,"
The dootor thought that even in her weak-
ness and emaciation there was something
almost unearthly in that radiant counten-
ance, and taking her hand tenderly in his,
het xelaimed : " You little woman, I will
raise heaven and earth to save you if human
power can do it,"
He then told her that be would organize
his forces and plane for a desperate encount-
er with her disease and appear in tho morn-
ing to parry them into effect, but in the
meantime ho would like to have her nurse
make downward passes over her spine and
all her limbs with the object of drawing the
oongested blood away from the vital parts ;
also to practice transverse wringing move-
ments over the same parts to kindle the
blood.
That night Dr. Emmons felt a mighty
weight of responsibility upon him. He pray-
ed for light, for help, for power. fie saw
that the clogging and Impure elements of
her system must be thrown off, and yet the
ordinary methods of sweating them off would
be too weakening for one who was already
very weak. Ho had read how Baron Da-
puytren cured a lady atter the most eminent
physicians had tailed by simply putting her
into the light, and he had heard marvellous
things about the sun -healing movement in
the country, especially in lung difitoulties,
Ella had cheertully promised to submit to
any course of t eatment that Dr. Emmons
might consider best, but in the morning when
he appeared with a big funnel -shaped in•
strument made of bright metal on one arm
and a wooden frame somewhat resembling a
chicken coop on the c ther, she gave a hearty
laugh. He then explained that he had had
them made in hot haste that morning—the
funnel, which was about two feet long, be-
ing for the purpose of concentrating a large
amount of light by reflection, while the
frame was for the purpose of going around
her as the sat up in bed. This had a large
opening in the top through which her head
could come, whileblankets were to be spread
over the crate -like affair, leaving her head
outside in the pure air and shutting in the
radiations of her body as well as the sun-
light which might be introduced through the
funnel. After a little laugh Ella was bol-
stered up in bed, the crate was placed over
her, a white blanket placed over that, and
the email end of the funnel inserted through
au opening in the crate so as to throw the
light directly on the skin over her lunge.
Tte,l:ea was then whee'ed up to the window
so that the fall sunlight could come into the
large.end of the WI nel, care being taken
that it should int strike Ella's head.
" Doctor, you are a genius," said Ella,
after the first trial. " Thia heat is delight-
ful I My dormant lungs drink it in as if they
were famished. if the sunlight is the great
vitalizer, why shouldn t it kindle up humau
bodies when it can get to them ? Doctor, it
begins to burn."
" Let it burn a little," said the doctor,
" for it will fire up the organs and d aw
some of the soreness outside, '
After a little while the perspiration start-
ed, though it had hard work to release the
impure elements from the fever -clot el. pores.
This sweating process was allowed to run
twenty or thirty minutes, the light having
been thrown upon the upper spine for a por-
ti-n of the time. The nurse then washed
her in tepid water and was surprised to find
sticky and even colored matter thrown o it
upon the skin.
I feel easier and fresher than I have for
days," said Ella.
" Bat I shall have to keep this up every
day for a while," said the doctor, " even if
it should weaken you somewhat."
Day after day the work went on. The
struggle was severe. Sunlight and m esaage
roused the turbid elemer is to the very
foundation, and one night he was sent for
with the announcement that she was dying.
" I don't belies e it," said he, though at
heart he was eomewhat alarmed •' The
crisis has come net I trust that with a little
help she will tet safely through." He found
her almost smothering, but ordered a hot
foot -bath, which drew the blood downward
and gate relief,
She had passed the Rubicon. From that
time onward she moved steadily upward, to
the great chagrin of the other doctors. She
soon eat up, the walked a few steps out of
doors, then took short rides, thea longer
rides, and finally she declared her health
was in as g' 01 condition as it had ever be n
The roses came back to her che,ks and elas-
ticity to her steps. But another change had
leen going on between the patient and her
physician. To each the approach of the
other was like the coming of a new sun into
the sky. With childlike simplicity and yet
with delicacy they utterel their kind re-
gards to each other. Finally, when the
doctor determined to bring matters to an ab-
solute cried.; Ella krew it as well as he.
" Sweetest of women,' said he.
" Noblest of mel," said the.
" You darling, you know well enough
what I'm up to."
" Of course I do," was her answer, " but
say it nevertheless."
" Will you be my sweeter half for ever
and ever Y"
"Certainly, dear, if you will homy strong-
er half for ever and ever."
The Yacht Livadia,
The Czar Alexander II,'s famous yacht,
the Livadia, turned up long ago as a coal
hulk in the harbor of Sebastopol. This is
an ignominious ending for a craft which
was expected to revolutionize marine archi-
tecture and which was certainly one of the
most georgous veeeels ever built. No such
vessel had been since Noah navigated the
eastern waters; her hull was hidden in a
projecting basement which supported a row
of pillars; she had four tiers of decks paved
with black, white and red marble ; there
was a magnificent marble fountain; the
baths were hewn from white marble blocks ;
rows of electric lights illuminated the sal-
oons and avenue -like corridors, and the
many ants of appartmonte were finished in
rare woods and stones, furnished with the
most costly trappings and ornamented with
Oriental splendor. Although that Livadia
wars more like d fairy palate than a modern
yacht, and it is not strange that the impres-
sion went abroad that one purpose of her
creation was to dazzle the Asiatic mind and
increase the awe and mystery with which
it regarded the Czar. But the Livadia wan
not a Rafe sailer,and she was practically dis-
carded as worthless,
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TUB LIME -KILN CLUB.
Delegates to the annual election and pia-
nio of the Lime•Kiln began am iving as ear-
ly as Thursday, and by Fi iduy night at
least 000 honorary members had put in an
appearance. Every State in the Union ex-
cept Florida was repreeeuted, and the two
Canada; Nova Scotia and Winnipeg sunt
their best mon.
Giveadam Jones, Pinkies Smith and
Whalebone Howker were a committee to
receive all delegates conning by rail, and a
warm and hearty welcome awaited each
stranger as he stopped off the caboose of a
freight train.
Trustee Pulbaok, Slr Isaao Newton and El-
der Penstock were a committee appointed to
patrol the river front day and night and re.
ooive suoh del gates as carne by boat. Whore
the delegates had taken paeeage and paid
his fare the work of the committee was very
easy, but whore he had stowed himself
away among the boxes without saying any-
thing to the captain it was a work of some to
ddhou'ty receive h m.
Lav back Junes, i'c.ceful Smith and Elder
Cabiff wore appointed a committee to reoeivu
such delegates as came in by highway, and
their duties were performed in the moat sat
iefactory man e•. Each dasly delegate -
was welcomed in a feeling speech, given a
drink of root beer from a gallon jug, and
then loaded into a one-horao wagon and for-
warded directly to Parading Hall. From
thence he was ticketed to the cabin of some
1, cal memter.
It has hitherto been tho practice of the
club to hold the annual picnic on Fighting
Island, eight miles below Detroit, but this
year the owner of the island refused permis-
sion, claiming that the last meeting tore up
thirty acres of ground in such an awful shape
that even burdock wou'dn't grow there this
season. The club therefore decided on a dry
land excursion, and teams conveyed the
members to a sylvan retreat about rive miles
from the city.
AN ADDRESS.
The first thing on the programme was an
address of welcome by Brother Gardner,
from which the following interesting statis-
tics are called :
The Lime -Kiln Club now numbers 22.850
members in good standing.
It has rbout $7,000 in the general treas-
ury, count,:? g n Confederate money and bills
on broken :seeks,
Its consti ution now contains forty-seven
sections or chapters, each one of the
most
vivid interest, and its by-laws number 12,-
460. It is hoped to increase the later to 20,•
000 before another year,
The club is the recognized organ of the
colored race in America and Canada, and
has been the direct means of saving 30,000
colored people from the gallows.
Toe cl' b has thirty-six branches in this
country and eight in Canada. Wherever
one of these branches has been established
all policy dealers have had to shut up shop,
and the game of " craps" had died a sudden
and painful death.
Since the organization of the club twenty-
two colored poets have made their debut ;
fourteen orators have been discovered and
brought to the front; twelve lecturers on
various suhjecte have been encouraged to
scatter over the country, and four weather
prophets are now r;ngagcd in keeping the
seasons greased to run without friction,
TILE GAMES,
Previous to dinner the following games
were indulged in and the following prizes
awarded,
Tbrowing the (tack) hammer ; p izo, a
volume of Capt. Kidd'e poems ; won by Old
Man Jackson after freaking three suspend-
ers.
Hop-skip-and•jump; prize, one pair of
nankeen trousers for next summer ; won by
Concentric Saunders after a mighty effort
which up-rnoted two small trees and tare up
forty rods cf ground,
High jump ; prize, one gallon of lemonade,
made by (Wer h of ",Pt•r;s ; wan.,; by Way
down Beebe who came down on hi s head
and did not recover from the shock until all
the lemonade had gurgled down the throats
of his compatriots.
Lifting the pullet, prize, ono gallon of
yellow paint, with instructions how to turn
it into an Alpine landscape worth $25 in
any sort of weather. Coinpetitors for this
prize were required to enter . a temporary
hencoop and remove a very wild pullet cif
the roost without disturbance. There were
twenty-one entries, but the prize was won
by ShindigWatkins amidst unbounded ap-
plause.
THE DINNER.
At 12 o'clock noon the horn blow for din-
ner and the assemblage rushed to the tables
and straggled with the following bill of
fare :
Soup, Soup. Soup.
A la bean.
Bread, Beef. Onions,
Mustard. Chow•chow, Pickles.
Knives, Forks. Spoons.
ENTREES.
Some of the mustard on some of the bread.
DESSERT.
Some of the onions tangled up with the
pickles,
The dinner will long be remembered by all
as a bright oasis in life's desert. After the
fragments were removed to as afe dietense to
prevent explosion, pails of lemonade were
passed.
TAB ELECTION.
After a day of unadulterated happiness
spent beneath the cuul shadows of a grove
worth $200 per acro, the club returned to
the city at nightfall and gathered in Para-
dise Hall. Previous to the opening of the
meeting, root beer, lemonade and pumpkin
pio were nerved out with liberal hand, and
several old plantation Bongo were rendered
in a manner to call out the patrol wagons.
The election, which was first on the even-
ing programme, resulted as follows :
Presidont.—Bro, Gardner.
First Vico•President—Sorghum White.
Second Vied•i'resldent—Snowball Jack-
son,
Grand Trrasurer—Slipout Smith,
Grand Recorder—Elder Cahoots.
Grand Finance Committee—Impecunious
Green, Outlawed Stebbins and Currenoy
Hart.
Speeches, songs, toasts and other feativI.
ties oecupled the time to midnight, at which
hour the mooting adjourned,
ea.:erne" awe
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