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Effervescent Tablet Trick
Volume 1, entries 790. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → Tricks. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 790
He [doctor] jis' come dere an' he put his hand down, he spread down newspapah - he up heah tuh Middlewood nahow [now] - spread down newspapah an' he giben [given] her a glass - he give me duh glass an' tole me to git a glass of watah from de pump. An' ah pumped it from de pump an' brung it tuh him an' he took dat glass, an' dat watah jes' boiled jes lak he'd put it in a pot an' he tole her to drink it. She drunk it an' put her laig on dat newspapah an' he said somepin other an' dat snaked crawled out dere through de skin [sleight of hand].
(You saw that?)
Yes sir, looking at it, me an' Dave - brother Dave, Clara an' Miz [Somebody], all of us looking at it. [This happened out in the country.]