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    Doctor Bolus and His Patients
    Doctor Bolus and His Patients
    Doctor Bolus and His Patients
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    Doctor Bolus and His Patients

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Doctor Bolus and His Patients - Archive Classics

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      Title: Doctor Bolus and His Patients

      Author: Unknown

      Release Date: April 7, 2010 [EBook #31909]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOCTOR BOLUS AND HIS PATIENTS ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Heather and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      DOCTOR BOLUS

      AND

      HIS PATIENTS.

      TROY, N. Y.

      MERRIAM, MOORE & CO.

      DOCTOR BOLUS

      AND HIS PATIENTS.

      ld Doctor Bolus was an old fashioned Doctor, and every morning started out with his cane, to visit his patients, sometimes taking with him his student, a man who had taken to studying medicine at thirty years old, in the hope of being the successor of Doctor Bolus.

      We will follow the Doctor’s rounds for one morning. First he called at the Squire’s, whose father was sick. The Doctor examined his tongue, felt his pulse, and mixed a white powder and a gray powder, giving directions for him to take a little every two hours. Then, after talking over the state of the crops with the Squire, he went on to his next patient, old black John, the colored man. John was very poor, but a good Quaker had relieved his wants and the Doctor gave him a dose of calomel, telling him he would soon be at work again.

      The Doctor’s next call was to see little Kitty Green, the merchant’s daughter; Kitty had meddled with a sharp knife, and cut her finger pretty severely; if she had been a poor man’s daughter it would have got

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