106 COMMON PRACTICE OF THE MODERN DOCTORS. 
on the point of a penknife, every hour for five hours, then 
they give rhubarb and calomel, and if the patient is full of 
pain, or has pains at any time, they generally give opium in 
fine powders, or paregoric drops (which is opium) and rum. 
This they continue till the patient gets well or dies. The 
doctor is extolled, live or die ; if the patient happens to live, the 
say is, “What a good doctor I had.” If he dies, then the 
ery is, “ Ob, if I had sent for the doctor a little sooner, he, 
she, or my child might have lived.” But the Lord gives and 
the Lord takes away, and blessed be the Lord. Heighth of - 
folly! The Lord has nothing to do with the frauds and mal- 
_ practice of doctors, but to suffer them to live, but will bring 
them to judgment, require the blood shed by malpractice at 
their hands, and appoint them a portion with the hypocrites 
and unbelievers, where there will be “ wailing and gnashing 
of teeth,” and “where the worm dieth not, and the fire is 
not quenched, with all the fale ogee teachers and 
doctors, . 
