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Jack of Diamonds
Volume 1, entries 847–848. 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 847
["A real root doctor - had a bottle - rubbed on hair, etc.- the bottle he had could do or cure anything - only item - several pages of talk torn up Introduction Notes. "836 - man 60 [[I correct this later after I learned his real age]] - root doctor - 88 yrs old - had a bottle - rubbed liquid on face, hair - by Mack" - Numbers Book 823-884. This man was found and brought by my automobile man Mack:] Now, you wants -
(Call you what?)
Jack of Di'monds - calls me the Jack of Di'monds.
(Oh, they call you Jack of Diamonds.)
This is Jack of Di'monds - that's my name, Jack of Di'monds -
(What? Mecklin County, Virginia?)
Born in Mecklinburg, Virginia - born in Virginia - county seat, Mecklinburg.
Entry 848
[Among other doctors with special names are: Dog Face or Dog Head (I describe in Introduction my efforts to find him in his tin-can-covered shed on a public dump) - Humpadee [= Humpty-Dumpty] of Richmond - Ready Money - Turkey Gobbler - Zorro - Doctor Buzzard - and others. "Mama Mary on Bowling Green Road [[north out of Richmond either helped or defended]] woman killed man - cut from under left arm, underwear - 5 or 6 needles and some cotton and part of towel they had used in intercourse - needles stuck in this underclothes and towel - put in bottle - and hair from privates - hole in cork - drips out - he died - Richmond, Va., (389), 336:3. Informant described as: "389 - b. Richmond - gum chewer" - gum chewer perhaps reason why I did not transcribe story - Numbers Book 340-442.]