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By 13111 Smiley
The Blue eca Is Early
Alphonse Ian' once said
"Plus va change, plus e'est
memo chose," which is Frenli
for; The more things change,
the xnore they are the same.
Once, for eight years, a long
tine ago, 1 lived with a doctor,
a surgeon in fact, for he had
• taken his M.D. and Master of
Surgery at Edinburgh and theh
gone en to take his. F.C.S.
England and Ito
We. Went throUgh a"bea
‘4 age last weekend, on our
way to Visit the grandparents.
1.bu knew the sort of placef'per-
LaPs 'pp, Year-round resIdents,
aad *nee the weather warms,
p, about 10,000 par hailed foreign -
:s every, weekend and all
.hrough July and August.
It's net my cup of tea, but
ssuch a resort has something.
he,re's a carnival, excitement
tor the teenager. And, for fano.iy groups and the middle-aged,
it means getting away from the
• ity; yet not having to cope with
' he wild( frightening silence of
.he real count' y.
ett- There's tile steve-hot, sticky as-
phalt underfpot. There's the
Coo l thrill of bare feet on smile
kid's dropped popsicle. There's
the Satisfying crunch underfoot
of a balf-eaten bag of potato
chips.
• Sun and sand and sky at thes
places are magnificent'. So are
..ome of the brOnzed, bikini-clid
oddesses wriggling past the
penny arcades andshooting gal-
laries.
' 'But is isn't these things that
rive the beach village tis atmos-
phere. No, it's a compound of
other things that make them
iascinatimg.
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There are the wonderful
smells: hamburgers frying; stale
beer; gasoline fumes; fish; faul-
y tanks.
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There are the fresh • air
sounds: eight thousand gulls
;?ghting over, garbage; the
'squeal of tires and vroomof ex-
hausts as the py.9,1ks scatter kids
Ike quail; 'the whine of power
boats beheading swimmers.
• And of course there are the
sights. Hero the pen falters.
,Vords alone cannot convey the;
...mpress;on of that pink"
bellied an 1- the purple sport
;flirt that lavish lady whose
'tacks 'Match exactly her orange
hair.*
Nor do the beach villages
neglect the sense of touch,'
I'm not knocking these places.
They have their own charm.,
like zoos. At any rate, there We
were, heading for this beach
village, which lies across our
route' to Granny's. And sudden.
ly they started to batter -past
us, in pairs, in threes, in gaggles
of five or six! the motoreycle
gangs. '1 here were at least three
different ones with such names
as The Marauders across the
e ; backs of black leather jackets.
"Oops.' Locks like a rough
weekend at- the 'beach," says I.
My family was -enthralled, just
watching them fly by, black
jackets, cowboy bOOts, dark
g lasses,
*
We slopped in the village to
buy something. The invasion
was on. They were everywhere
•
The storekeeie.r groaukd when
I mcnticned -it, "I. sure -hope
the don i start nothin."
We got a c oser look. My
wife was appal d. She'd never
,seen such a' collection of fe-
males in her life. Greasy hair,
dirty clothes and a built-in chip
on the shoulder. 1 guess it's
difficult to stay dainty on the
b• ack of a motorbike, but they
did look Tike a jam of tarts
,from a Glasgow slum.
* *
The nicn were equally inter-
esting. You could_ tell therm
from the girl necause they had-
n't tawen- off their leather jack.
ets to expose every inch of legal e
flesh.
w was fokeed
to become a general practition
er Before we became acquaint-
ed and Libecei.ne an inmate of
his home, he had lectured in
atatomy at -the local university's
sehoor a medicine. I never
heard. 'the story but I suspect he
had hoi•Al that his professional
superiors would back him for
some important ,surgical posi-
tion on which he had set his
heart. There was a hint of
professk,nal jealousy, or it may
have been Buggins' turn. Any-
how they did not back him and
the doctor never quite overcame
his disappointment.
relaxed; they were tense. They
didn't walk; they swaggered.
They didn't laugh; they sneered.
Big, burly brutes, dirty, long-
haired. 1 must admit they gave
me a small, cold chill down the
back.
Nothing happened. We were-
n't beaten up or insulted. We
drove off, glad we 'Weren't stay-
ing thee. Next day, I heard
there'd been quite a rumble at
that village.
On Hie way home, over the
same route, we were wondering
whether they had left. •There
didn't seem to be anyign of
Them. Then we turned a corner.
There was a big crewd in the
middle of the road. A police-
man waved us. by. On the pave-
ment were two bodies, covered
with blankets. But you could
see the cowboy boots sticking
out. A greasy -haired girl crouch-
ed, stroking the face of one- of
the young men lying there.
4.
I don't know whether they
-were dead. I don't -Think "-s-a,
because nobody seemed hysteri-
Aeal, arid the cops were palm.
They were obviously into the t
beer 'already, but, they weren't w
having 'any fun. They weren't a
ven indifferent.
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It was rather like • watching
he las' scene of a tragedy,
hen you'd seen only Act I
nd then had to leave,
Recallifig our 'years together
and comparing, the practice of
the profession in those days
with what has become, or mill
$0012 :become, the nationalize
-
tion of a noble professton,
cannot but decide that Karr's
dicturn,. so typically .French,
does not hold up when applied
to the peactice of medicine..ever
the years.
But to return to our early
association. Naturally, as one
whq had sat at the feet of
Joseph Lister at Edinburgh, you
were not surprised at the per-
vading smell of carbolic acid.
Hand 'washing, constant, follow.
ing each consultation, became a
ritual part and parcel a the
new code of antisepsis forever
associated witn the name of
Lister. Jn his consulting roam
stood a xaahog,any cabinet; with
the lifting of the lid a basin
and taps were diselbsed. Here
we would wash our hands even
before going out for some crick-
et practice at the nets.
Medical practices were bou-
ght and sold in those days, as
the surest way of obtaining
patients. but the doctor Could
not affot-d -this, so he set up his
brass plate or the Tailing of
his residence and waited. Only
two blocks to the north was "old
doctor Kayser": well establish-
ed but ageing •and I surmise
that it was this which caused
the doctor to choose his loca-
tion.
Charlie Broughton
From my point of view, the
doctor's most enchanting patient
was harlie Broughton. He
drove the horse bug from Gar
ston to Aigburtif Vale and back,
attended either by 'Stokes or
Jimm- y, his guards, or fare cal,
lectors and on occasion I rode
with Charlie on the, box seat.
When the box seat Wats full and
I had to ride inside, staring at
the Pears or Sunlight soap post-
ers on the roof,' Stokes was
equally obligmg, allowingme
to give the two sharp pulli on
his leather strap which connect-
ed to a knocker under Charlie's
seat anfl indicated that -he might
gee up. When Charlie Was sick
we drove4oUt to his wee home
in'Garst,m, t� be reeeiveeby
his wife - with whom no famil-
iarities were ever bandied. You
asked: "And how does Mister
Brought on set. -m today?" Never
Charlie! That was far too pie:
beian for Mrs. Broughton's ear:,
• When you can buy a Vauxhall Viva
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When Dr. .4aySer ontinued
beyond his three score and ten,
the doctor found he could no
longer, afford to wait and so,
'after mud.' coming and going,
he moved. He had been forced
to borrow to buy a practice. in
CalWyn Bay 'from Dr. Ed -wards'
widow. Quite an upheaval it
was and a great change of scene
from °Aigburth cricket ground
across from which the doctor
had lived. It was there that
A patient, M. Moss, offered a
five nound note toany batsman
wtho could -hit a ball over the
high 4)4Y:4/on clock. I saw it
done once when Gilbert Jessop
captained Cambridge Univ.ersity
against tianca:thire, can see
Jessop still as he pranced down
the pitch with his short handled
bat and his wonderful eye, to
meet the ball before it bounced.
He made a century that day as
you can see from Wisden's Year
Book, and I know not how many
sixes were included, for in his
40, the was the 'bowler's des-
pair. AP my heroes like C. B.
Fry, Toni Hayward, Ranjitsinghi,
.0vhen Ranji had made his 50
a man ran out from the pavilion
with a brandy arid soda to him)
the Garnett lerothers, the Steels
and even D. W. G. Grace him-
self—all these were exchanged
for a quiet lovely Welsh coun-
tryside.
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Tynyffordd
The new house,- named as
above and meaning the house
on. the road, was admirably suit-
ed to a G, P. You "waited" jij
the dining room, but what a
business ' that was when a sur-
feit of patients, prevented the
table from being laid for dinner;
the consulting room had -its
ritis
couch and scales'and the same
green glass shaded reading lamp
as you see in the famous pie.
ture: "The Drctor."
Down a long tiledpassage,
past the kitchen door,„ was the
dispensary. A sink, a fireplace
and shOves of bottles with glass
stoppers, eaci one labeled in
gold on black: Aqua Menth Pip;
T. Digitalis etc. Burroughs Wel-
cOnie and Evans Sons Lescher
& Webb, who supplied the bulk
chemicals, became household
names.
There were scales for mea-
suring powders, pestles and
mortars and on two desks were
the day book and the ledger
respectively. In an intriguing
little chest the labels for the
medicine bottles c resided: "The
mixture as before" or "Two tea-
spoons at bedtime."
In a draw partitioned off,
were corks oi" sizes to fit four
ounce, eight ounce and even 12
ounee'bittles, Acrd over all was
the sweet scent of Aqua ,Menth.
Pip.
At thc back of the house was
a coach nouse and a stable. and
into this, one 'fine day,, walked
"Meg," a iove:y chestnut mare,
who vvoaid draw the doctor's
red and black trap when he
paid his morning calls. The
arrival Lf Meg edged the surly
Hannan to the family, but he
was a very knowledgeable coach-
man, whose wife Tan the Nation-
al Telephone 4Company's ex-
change.
Mei:lector would carry a fold-
ed slip of paper on which was
written the patients to be visit-
ed- and on his return, the short-
hand on the slip was written
out in full into the day book,
Medicine -aye. macteoci itos
together with the prescription sta,v heivabouts, two incidents
stand out. The (first was when
the doctor deeicled to remove
an appendix.hiroself. 1 can see
him still as he sat for some days
before the operation, smoking
his large meerschaum pipe, his
feet up- on, a revolving stool
with a dark red velvet cover,
reading ,a huge, tome bound in
dark green leather-. In gold
letters 7,ou could read on the
back. "rhe Vermiform Appen,
dix." •
In those days this operation
was still novel or comparative-
ly so, VVhalwas still more
novel was for it to be‘'perform-
ed by a G.P. and in the patient's
.home a1 that. Young Dr. Cad -
van Jones gave the anaesthetic
and .1 recall his complete cap-
itulation; his dog -like admir.
ation at what he saw performed
that day.
The second episode covered a
very ticklish operition for
which 11.e doctor ealled4 in a
Liverpool siiecialist. he arriv-
ed by London and North West-
ern Railway train to be met by
e e up.
c, ono° institute
One of the doctor's l'In4ny
charities, ^for he was paid by
barely 50' pet cent of his pat-
ients, was the-vare of the mem-
bers of the Congo Institute, a
seminary for training Congol-
ese gentlemen for the Ministry
in Africa , Run Ay Dr. Hughes;
wild Once presented the doctor
with a ,black ebony cane from
$'Darkest Africa," the institute
produced some amusing charac-
ters.
The doctor would remark how
ineapabfe they -were of standing
the slightest pain. Others be-
came "sick" merely because the
possess': n of a bottle of medi-
cine raised them -in the eyes of
their peers. 1 believe on some
occasions the doctor just gave
them a bottle of colored'vvater
with, of course, an infusion of
Aq'ua Meath. Pip. The bene
ficial results were amazing.
Even then you not, a good
practical knowledge of psychol-
ogy was essential to a doctor.
Two Operations
In bis comparatively short Meg and the trap. He saw the
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patient at once and oPerated the
next day,again in the patient's
home, fox there was only a cot-
ta4e-hospital for accident eases.
Just before lie went home the
specialist said: "Had I not had
swell faith izi Your diagnosis,
I would never have agreed to
operate. The results Showed
that you were oright,',,
Sevin aftej' that My intimacy
• with the doctor was terminated.
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what happened to yesterday's
doetOr? Oh merely that his
widow found herself with
$25,000 worth (If bad debts; The
patients 'said: "The doctor is
dead. I don't owe himany-
ahing now." .
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