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Doctor Refuses to Fight Doctor
Volume 1, entries 919. 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 919
I had a son named Addison and he and myself was away in Pennsylvania and he went to New Jersey. And when he got out of a job I wrote him a letter to come on out here [where the father was in Pennsylvania] and he'd get all the work he Wanted. And he came then. And he taken with going with a young lady and this lady fixed him. And I brought him home [to Stafford County, Virginia]. And when I brought him home he breaken out with sores all over one side. This girl told him that if he didn't marry her he wouldn't do nobody no good. And I taken him to a fortune teller and he ask the boy what he wanted done. And the boy told him he wanted this taken off of him and put on /the person who put it on him. And I said to him [the fortune tellerl. "What could you do with a person three or four hundred miles away from here?" And he say, "I could send this just as far as the wind blowed." And I said, "Don't let it come close to me." But he said, "I can't get the one who fixed this [doctor who prepared the spell] but I will get the one [girl] who put it down for you." This girl what put it down for you." This girl what put it down, she was rolling up her sleeves to wash her clothes and she fell backwards and died right there.