Show TALES OF IRISH DOCTORS queer experiences recorded by the profession A physician in the out of the way corner of ireland has many op ties to laugh although his amusement must be mingled with anxiety for his peasant patients do strange things they have great faith in the factor a superstitious faith in his drugs and appliances but they often make non sense of his orders mr michael mac mae donagh in his irish life and charac ter gives some instances of irish simplicity in dealing with the ghys clan A dispensary doctor once prescribed two pills for a sick laborer which he cent sent by the man s wife in a small box bearing hearing the direction the whole to be taken immediately on visiting the pat ent a little later the doctor was surprised id Ld to find that the pills had not helped him he ile asked the man s wife it if she had given him the medicine I 1 did doctor replied she but maybe the lid t come off yet the sick man had swallowed box and all mrs murphy s hu band was ex III and she consulted the phy asician I 1 in sorry madam he said grave ly but your husband is dying by cinches j inches well ell sto aid cald wih an ail all of hopeful resignation wan good thing Is me poor man Is six foot tree t ree in his feet so be 11 last some time yet ye t ah h irishman who had sent for the doctor doctor for the first firs t time in his life watched with astonishment while the physician took his clinical ther mome ter from its case sl aped it under the patient patients s armpit and told bim him to keep it there a second or two mike lay jay still almost afraid to breathe but when the doctor removed he ther mome er he drew a ion long breath and excia med ah ali I 1 do feel a dale beather already sor |