Dr. Boyle acquired a special
nimbleness in jumping in and out of these contrivances armed with
stethescope, spoons, bowls, and dressings. We accumulated a congregation
of "regulars," who came to be dressed every day--gathered feet,
suppurating glands, eczema, etc.
One old mother with a bad leg was bandaged up with boracic ointment and
told to come back in two days. She came. Jo undid the bandage. All the
old lady's fleas had swarmed to the boracic till it looked like a
fly-paper. After which we used Vermigeli.
All wore brightly woven belts, sometimes two or three, each a yard and a
half long, tightly wound round their bodies, thus making their waists
wider than their hips. One girl was black and blue with the pattern
showing on her skin, and many men were suffering from the evils of tight
lacing.
The village priest received belts as fees from the peasants when he
married them. He sent us a message to say he had some for sale, so we
went in a body to his house, were received by his daughter, who looked
like a cow-girl, turned over a basketful of belts, and bought largely.
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