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Show DR TANNER'S WIFE. Dr Tanner's wife, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, seems to be about as queer a character at the doctor himself. Writing from Duluth, the correspondent says: As the papers are full of incidents relative to Dr. Tanner and the estimable lady who was his late wife, permit me to relate a feature of the idiosyncrasies of that lady as a medical practitioner in this city, and also as an evidence of what the too frequent use of pork and cabbage upon the habits of individuals. With Mrs. Tanner every patient had, to her mind, an attack on the liver. It mattered not what the ailing of the patient was, a chill, fever, sprain, croup or tumor prolapaneuterus???, a bunion or a corn, she invariably said, "Let me see your tongue" and after feeling the pulse would say as certain as she spoke, "Your liver is affected" and immediately she would advise her solo prescription, an antidote for bile. It was a common saying in every family she visited, as well as the gossip of every family circle who were acquainted with Mrs. Tanner's peculiarity, that Mrs. Tanner must be a pork eater to imagine that the only ailing in the world was the rancidity of the liver, and that her "educated" eye would detect in her patient what no other physician could see - a case of liver complaint in every ailing person. From a mashed finger to an overgrown corn on the toe, all in fact to be the outcome of a diseased liver. In fact, Mrs. Tanner lost her practice in Duluth, where she lived several years with Dr. Tanner in consequence of her liver mania, and all too, for her excessive fondness, it may be called passion, for the use of pork and cabbage in every mode it could be used. The people here all know that Dr. Tanner's assertion about pork and cabbage in his family was as true as it had become amusing. |