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852 - RULES FOR GIVING MEDICINE. 
and although they are then willing to employ and pay the © 
doctor, there is many times no help for them. And there © 
are others that will indulge in tight lacing and dressing, and 
thin dressing, and every fashionable, sinful amusement, and — 
spend their money for toys and trinkets of no value to them, 
rather than employ a doctor when sick. There are others 
that are poor and plead so much honesty and promise so fair 
that the doctor will take unwearied pains and effect a cure; 
and sometimes their friends, or the church to which they be 
long, will offer to pay the doctor; but miserable wretches 
~ they are—so proud, and poor, and dishonest, with all, that 
they will stop their friends or the church to which they be- 
long, from paying it. And if the church should raise funds 
to pay it, they will, if possible, get hold of it and whore or 
squander ft away, and if taken to due by the doctor after - 
they get well, will have the impudence to tell him that he 
agreed to board and doctor them and wait till they could pay 
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: him ; and also have their conscience so hell-hardened that 
they will tell him they had rather die than have his or her 
friends, or the society to which they belong, pay their doctor’s 
bill, and the doctor is cheated out of his pay and treated with 
contempt by them. There are others that move in the 
highest circles of life, and are looking to somebody that can 
dress well, and live in large houses, and ride in fine carriages, 
and show large college diplomas.. To them they will fly for 
relief when sick. The truth of the matter i is, the doctor em- 
ployed is a complete ignoramus, and knows little else but the 
use of quick-silver or quack-salver (from which the word 
quack doctor originated) —ipecac, tartar emetic, morphene, 
_ quinine, or some preparations of silver or iro, and is ignor- 
simple means provided for us by the God of Na- 
es, when we break Nature’s unerring laws, 
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