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A Little Earlier Could of Saved the Boy
Volume 1, entries 870. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → Consultation Technique. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 870
They said what they give him in the whiskey - it was a bird was in it, a bird grown in him and it laid and it done hatch. And after the bird hatch up, then the boy died. The root man told him.that if he'd got him a little earlier he could of saved the boy 'fore the bird hatched in him. [This is one of many excuses either to explain failure to cure or refusal to accept the case.] [Wilmington, N. Car., (245), 242:4; near Pinewood, S. Car.,1934.]