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proved, if there had been such doctors
in Willow Lane. To my certain know-
ledge, Doctor Windman did not deal in |
the “high dilutions,’ when he practiced
upon me for the whooping cough and
maladies of that class and order.

O what oceans of rhubarb, and mag-
nesia, and glauber salts, and senna, were
distributed to the invalids of Willow
Lane, in the course of a year! But our
doctor was, perhaps, not more generous in
dealing out nauseous doses than his bro-
ther physicians were. It was the fashion
to punish a poor follow so severely for get-
ting sick, that he would be pretty sure not
to get sick again if he could help it.