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Doctor of Medicine [M.D.]
Volume 1, entries 641. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → DOCTOR AND DOCTOR: TWO OPPOSING SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 641
You getting a medical doctor, a medical doctor and you say [for example] I'm sick - I feel bad and I'm hurting and hurting or something. You get a doctor and the doctor will come. He'll come maybe once or twice and he'll tell you, after his medicine don't take no 'fect, tell you, say, "You have to get somebody else know more than I know." Then you got'a wander around and first thing you goin' find your mind on hoodoo, and you goin' get a hoodoo den. Well, a hoodoo, den he goin' come and tell you, 'Yeah, there's something done to you. You say, "Well, I want you to git it off. How much you charge me?" "Well, I charge four or five or ten dollars." Well, you goin' give him four, five or ten dollars and he goin' get it off. Well, he's the same one what put it on you. [Yet, see margin-title, Doctor Unable to Cast and Cure Same Spell.]
The account hypothetically contrasts failed medical treatment with promised paid removal; neither outcome is verified.