FAMILY PHYSICIAN. ~ 169 
doctor at a 1 public meeting in-the village, and feeling 
something anxious to know his — s and opinions 
upon the subjects took ‘the lib a oe 
as to the cause of the eaageebiy bad eR 9s he had 
met with in his practice. _ He said he could not ae- 
count for it—the disease seemed se very pe- 
culiar type; for with all the remedies he any 
knowledge of, he had not been able to make the dis- 
order yield t icine. a hat in ae praca eemed 
gone precisely by th rection do 
books. I expressed tl 
persevering in u 
when we find by ex periendé that it t ki Ils are patient, 
instead of curing him, He said he knew of no other 
way. I then = him that the reason he’ bad fiven 
reminded me of an affair that peppy when I was 
a boy, which I saat d as follow 
During the revolutionary wer Pie different towns 
in our state were called on to farnish 2 lee for the 
army as aac pene haut ; and it a cus- 
m when t ato th 
there was no clergyman present ; and a very old 
the to ofc <P map n order, a 
