Daydreams of a doctor . alprinciples. A grave suspicion comes over you that itwas for this very purpose that you were invited to accom-pany the doctor, rather than to learn something of thelives of these unfortunate people. The doctor tells youthat he will probably not be able by any means at hiscommand to protect the remaining children of the house-hold. There was a mild case of the disease here a fewdays ago, he says, and I did everything I could toprevent any of the other children from contracting it;but I could not get the parents to understand the insidi-ous nature of the disease, or the
Daydreams of a doctor . alprinciples. A grave suspicion comes over you that itwas for this very purpose that you were invited to accom-pany the doctor, rather than to learn something of thelives of these unfortunate people. The doctor tells youthat he will probably not be able by any means at hiscommand to protect the remaining children of the house-hold. There was a mild case of the disease here a fewdays ago, he says, and I did everything I could toprevent any of the other children from contracting it;but I could not get the parents to understand the insidi-ous nature of the disease, or the necessity for absolutecleanliness, or for the use of antiseptics, or for boiling thesoiled clothes and bedding of the patient, nor could I getthem to understand the absolute necessity of keeping thepatient isolated, and of keeping the other children awayfrom him. Another child was complaining last evening;and as the disease seems to be very malignant, there isno telling what the result will be. But here is A little one-story cabin of round logs. Bacteriology and the Bacteriologist 67 The doctor pulls up in front of a little one-story cabinof round logs, made after the primitive style, with aclapboard roof and a stick chimney. The surroundingscompare favorably with the house; everything indicatesthe most abject poverty, even to the dogs and the halfdozen half-clad children who play about the door. Asyou enter the house, you observe that it is lighted only bya three-pane window and by the half-open door. Thewoman, as you see her through the gloom, is an illy clad,swarthy, overworked-looking creature, barefooted, in adark calico dress that has seen much service, and atangled mass of hair about her head. She is of mediumsize, and undoubtedly in consonance with her surround-ings. My husband has gone for some of the neighbors,she says, for the children are awful bad. You now observe her features more clearly, and youhardly know what to make of her. She does not seemto
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