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The swamp doctor also stabs bears, apparently.<\/p><\/div>\n

Given the ungodly humidity, today seems as good a day as any to peruse an 1858 volume whose full title is The Swamp Doctor\u2019s Adventures in the South-West<\/a>; Containing the Whole of<\/em> The Louisiana Swamp Doctor;<\/em> Streaks Of Squatter Life; and<\/em> Far-Western Scenes; in a Series Of Forty-Two Humorous Southern And Western Sketches, Descriptive Of Incidents And Character<\/em>, by John Robb (\u201cMadison Tensas, M.D.\u201d and \u201cSolitaire\u201d) author of \u201cSwallowing Oysters Alive<\/em>, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, the glories of the public domain! Here\u2019s a sordid bit from a chapter called \u201cThe Mississippi Patent Plan for Pulling Teeth\u201d:<\/p>\n

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I had just finished the last volume of Wistar\u2019s Anatomy, well nigh coming to a period myself with weariness at the same time, and with feet well braced up on the mantel-piece, was lazily surveying the closed volume which lay on my lap, when a hurried step in the front gallery aroused me from the revery into which I was fast sinking.<\/p>\n

Turning my head as the office door opened, my eyes fell on the well-developed proportions of a huge flatboatsman who entered the room wearing a countenance, the expression of which would seem to indicate that he had just gone into the vinegar manufacture with a fine promise of success.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you pull teeth, young one?\u201d said he to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, and noses too,\u201d replied I, fingering my slender moustache, highly indignant at the juvenile appellation, and bristling up by the side of the huge Kentuckian, till I looked as large as a thumb-lancet by the side of an amputating knife.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cYou needn\u2019t get riled, young doc, I meant no insult, sarten, for my teeth are too sore to \u2018low your boots to jar\u2019 them as I swallered you down. I want a tooth pulled, can you manage the job? Ouch! criminy, but it hurts!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, sir, I can pull your tooth. Is it an incisor, or a dens sapienti\u00e6? one of the decidua, or a permanent grinder?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a sizer, I reckon. It\u2019s the largest tooth in my jaw, anyhow, you can see for yourself,\u201d and the Kentuckian opening the lower half of his face, disclosed a set of teeth that clearly showed that his half of the alligator lay above \u2026<\/p>\n

Everything being ready, we invited the subject to take his seat in the operating chair, telling him it was necessary, agreeably to our mode of pulling teeth, that the body and arms should be perfectly quiet; that other doctors, who hadn\u2019t bought the right to use the \u2018patent plan,\u2019 used the pullikins, whilst I operated with the pulleys. I soon had him immoveably strapped to the chair, hand and foot. Introducing the hand-vice in his mouth, which, fortunately for me, was a large one, I screwed it fast to the offending tooth, then connecting it with the first cord of the pulleys and intrusting it to the hands of two experienced assistants, I was ready to commence the extraction. Giving the word, and singing, \u201cLord, receive this sinner\u2019s soul,\u201d we pulled slowly, so as to let the full strain come on the neck bones gradually.<\/p>\n

Though I live till every hair on my head is as hollow as a dry skull, I shall never forget the scene.<\/p>\n

Clothed in homespun of the copperas hue, impotent to help himself, his body immoveably fixed to the chair, his neck gradually extending itself, like a terrapin\u2019s emerging from its shell, his eyes twice their natural size, and projected nearly out of their sockets, his mouth widely distended, with the vice hidden in its cavity, and the connexion of the rope being behind his cheeks, giving the appearance as if we had cast anchor in his stomach, and were heaving it slowly home, sat the Kentuckian, screaming and cursing that we were pulling his head off without moving the tooth, and that the torment was awful. But I coolly told him \u2018twas the usual way the \u2018Mississippi patent plan\u2019 worked, and directed my assistants to keep up their steady pull.<\/p>\n

I have not yet fully determined, as it was the first and last experiment, which would have come first, his head or the tooth, for all at once the rope gave way, precipitating, without much order or arrangement, the assistants into the opposite corner of the room.<\/p>\n

The operating chair not being as securely screwed down as usual, was uptorn by the shock of the retrograde motion acquired, when the rope broke, and landed the Kentuckian on his back in the most distant side of the room; as he fell, he struck the side of his face against the wall, and out came the vice, with a large tooth in its fangs. He raged like one of his indigenous thunderstorms, and demanded to be released. Fearing some hostile demonstration when the straps were unfastened, we took occasion to cut them with a long bowie knife. He rose up, spitting blood and shaking himself, as if he was anxious to get rid of his clothes. \u201cH\u2014l, Doc, but she\u2019s a buster! I never seed such a tooth. I recon no common fixments would have fotch it; but I tell you, sirree, it hurt awful; I think it\u2019s the last time the \u2018Mississippi Patent Plan\u2019 gets me in its holt. Here\u2019s a five-dollar Kaintuck bill, take your pay and gin us the change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seeing he was in such good humour, I should have spared him, but his meanness disgusted me, and I thought I would carry the joke a little further. On examining his mouth, I suddenly discovered, as was the case, that I had pulled the wrong tooth, but I never told him, and he had too much blood in his mouth to discover it.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurse the luck,\u201d I exclaimed, \u201cby Jupiter I have lost my bet. I didn\u2019t break the infernal thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLost what?\u201d inquired the patient, alternately spitting out blood, and cramming in my tobacco.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy, a fine hat. I bet the old boss that the first tooth I pulled on my \u2018Mississippi Patent Plan,\u2019 I either broke the neck of the patient or his jaw-bone, and I have done neither.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you never pull a tooth that way before? why, you told me you\u2019d pulled a hundred.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, but they all belonged to dead men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if the rope hadn\u2019t guv way, I reckon there\u2019d bin another dead man\u2019s pulled. Cuss you, you\u2019d never pulled my tooth if I hadn\u2019t thought you had plenty of \u2018sperience; but gin me my change, I wants to be gwine to the boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

I gave the fellow his change for the five-dollar bill, deducting the quarter, and the next day, when endeavouring to pass it, I found we had both made a mistake. I had pulled the wrong tooth, and he had given me a counterfeit bill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Should the spirit move you\u2014and why wouldn\u2019t it?\u2014you can read more of the good doctor\u2019s dubiously hygienic exploits here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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