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Show Expert Medical Attention. Thoro aie still lomotu districts In Austria whoro tho country apothecary acts as a doctor and uses tho old-fashioned old-fashioned remedies. Itccontly ono of thoso elderly practitioners was sum--nioned In hasto to seo a postilion who was down with fever. The apothecary had had u long sitting In tho Ullage beorhouse, and loft his boon companions compan-ions reluctantly. Ho pi escribed leech-os leech-os for his patient, and as thu lattor's wlfo didn't Beem to understand what to do with them, ho undertook to put thorn on tho patlent'B legs himself. Hut In splto of all his efforts, tho leeches refused to stick, and finally tho doctor's patlonco was oxaustcd and ho was nbout to glvo up t"'o Job, whon tho wlfo, who had been watching him with a gaping mouth, Biiddonly said: "Wouldn't It bo hotter, Herr Doctor, If my husband's leather breeches woro takon off llrnt?" |