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Title
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David McDonogh to Walter Lowrie
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Description
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"I was laid up two weeks this vacation with the Gynache Parotidea or Mumps. Not withstanding that however, I read through Chapman's Therssenties, a work on Materia Medica containing about one thousand pages."
David updates Lowrie on his progress in his medicine studies.
"I have bled three person since I received my lancet- and drawn two teeth- and prescribed several doses to different individuals."
"The first person I bled was a woman- I stuck her three times before I got blood. However, I told her that her skin was so tough that I had to strike three times in order to cut through it."
"The next person, I bled was a woman, well known to all the Easton physicians as one exceedingly hard to be bled...she was so poor that I thought she could scarcely afford a pint of Blood...I stuck her and the Blood flew up to the ceiling- over the bed, husband and everything else that was in its way...It is true, he was a very Blackman, but when he took hold of the Bowl he was as- I was going to say pale, but that will not express my meaning."
"The next person Bled, was a Big Fat Irish Girl- I brought Blood at the first strike."
"Drawing teeth is not what [it] is cracked up to be! I had to pay two cents for each tooth I drew."
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Original letter at the PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Philadelphia)
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Identifier
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89
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Date
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1843-05-06 00:00:00
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Subject
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David tells, in-depth, about his bleeding and teeth pulling experiences.
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Creator
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David
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Format
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auto
