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102 FIFTY-FOURTH xVNNUAL SESSION die, and in view of the fact that they do not, a dissertation on meddlesome midwifery would be entirely out of order. A case of puerperal eclampia, in which I was called in consultation, showed me that there is such a thing as shaking life "into" one, as well as shaking it "out" of one. I had used forceps, and the child showed no evidence of life, the mother having had six convulsions before I arrived. The delivery was not difficult, and after trying for some time to resuscitate the child, I handed it to a neighbor woman, remarking that I did not think it worth while to try longer, as the other Doctor had also tried. The woman laid it across her lap, face downward, and began jolting it on her knee, turning it over occasionally. In an hour's time that child cried as lustily as I ever heard one, which must have been at least two hours after it was born. She literally shook life into it. Of all the remedies that different people have for the ills flesh is heir to, the country doctor runs up against as many as any man living. From tying knots in a string for every wart on a child, and then tying the string to a frog's leg, so he can hop off with them, even up to "Nanny tea," there are as many and varied remedies to be found in every neighborhood as there are testimonials in a patent medicine almanac. And each one's remedy is, as they call it, a "present cure." One, I well remember seeing written on a piece of blank, or at least brown paper, for chills, consisted of the following ingredients: Epsom salts...............................1 pound. Sulph. quinine............................1 ounce. Corn whiskey..............................1 quart. Dose, a wineglassful three times a day. While nothing so very much wrong with the ingredients, I would prefer chills to the dose. I saw a patient not long since, a boy six years old, who had been having chills regularly, for some weeks. His mother, a very pious woman, with ordinary intelligence told me she had done everything to break them and could not, and that she had "walked" him for them but that had failed, and
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1907 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-054 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 54 |
Health Discipline | Pharmacy |
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Fixed Title * | Page 102 (image) |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1907 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-054-0112 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; all images; chart/table; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 54 |
Page Number | 102 |
Health Discipline | Pharmacy |
Full Text | 102 FIFTY-FOURTH xVNNUAL SESSION die, and in view of the fact that they do not, a dissertation on meddlesome midwifery would be entirely out of order. A case of puerperal eclampia, in which I was called in consultation, showed me that there is such a thing as shaking life "into" one, as well as shaking it "out" of one. I had used forceps, and the child showed no evidence of life, the mother having had six convulsions before I arrived. The delivery was not difficult, and after trying for some time to resuscitate the child, I handed it to a neighbor woman, remarking that I did not think it worth while to try longer, as the other Doctor had also tried. The woman laid it across her lap, face downward, and began jolting it on her knee, turning it over occasionally. In an hour's time that child cried as lustily as I ever heard one, which must have been at least two hours after it was born. She literally shook life into it. Of all the remedies that different people have for the ills flesh is heir to, the country doctor runs up against as many as any man living. From tying knots in a string for every wart on a child, and then tying the string to a frog's leg, so he can hop off with them, even up to "Nanny tea" there are as many and varied remedies to be found in every neighborhood as there are testimonials in a patent medicine almanac. And each one's remedy is, as they call it, a "present cure." One, I well remember seeing written on a piece of blank, or at least brown paper, for chills, consisted of the following ingredients: Epsom salts...............................1 pound. Sulph. quinine............................1 ounce. Corn whiskey..............................1 quart. Dose, a wineglassful three times a day. While nothing so very much wrong with the ingredients, I would prefer chills to the dose. I saw a patient not long since, a boy six years old, who had been having chills regularly, for some weeks. His mother, a very pious woman, with ordinary intelligence told me she had done everything to break them and could not, and that she had "walked" him for them but that had failed, and |
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Article Title | Incidents In The Life Of A Country Doctor |
Article Author | Will B. Crawford |
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