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Doctor Don't Have to Move: Absent Treatment
Volume 1, entries 883. 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 883
[Two classes of persons were not included in the preceding margin-titles regarding consultation: the first being those who use religious shrines; the second those who approach the doctor by letter. Religious shrines I must present under separate subsection Saints-Candles-Altars. Material about doctors working by correspondence or at a distance is scattered (see No. 858, p.296, and No. 886 p.319, and Distance or Absent Treatment in Index) but here is an example:] Well, they say a man was livin' in Kingstree, South Carolina, could do that. You jis' had to write him - an' jis' write him an' tell him that your [his] wife had left him, you know, an' he wanted her back. So this man wrote back to him an' told him to give him seven dollah an' send to him. Sure enough, he sold chickens an' things like that an' hogs until he got seven dollah, an' he mailed it to him. An' he sent him a letter back - jis' writin'. He say, "That's all you got to do, jis' send me de money." He say, "I charge you seven dollah."] He say, "I even don't have to move' - he wouldn't come up dere. An' he say, "Your wife will come back." An' sure enough she did.