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I'm More of a Specialist
Volume 1, entries 801. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → THE DOCTORS THEMSELVES: BIRTH TO DEATH: DESCRIBED BY LAYMEN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 801
Practically what I know, you understand, I illustrate that, you know, plainly.
(I see. Well, do you call yourself a root doctor?)
No, nol I don't call myself a root doctor. I'm more of a specialist - I make every kind of medicine in the world but castor oil, according to Hoyle. (I see.) And I'm known to cure anything in that respect that I know of - understand, what my father taught me years ago - but I don't like dat name root doctor. No.
(Oh, you don't like that name.)
No, I don't like dat name.
(What's wrong with that name?)
Well, the practical reason. It's okay. It's just like that that I don't like that common, you know, expression here. There you are. People get 'fraid of you - think if you are a root doctor, person like in my predicament in life. My people especially, they get 'fraid of you when dey think dat - you know what I mean.
(They think that you are going to put a spell on them?)
Yeah, sure - some of that predicament. Yeah. (And then there are so many fakes, I suppose that they are afraid of you. I see.) Sure, certainly.
The speaker claims a curing capacity within what they know and were taught; this is not a verified cure.