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ROOTMAN CAN ALSO FAIL
Volume 4, entries 7243. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → A FEW MORE DOCTORS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7243
Now, yo' take me, ah wuz fixed. Ah kin prove mine. Mah wife done it tuh me. But she done it, yo' know, wit mah private, yo' unnahstan'. Now it's [private is] no good fo' me. We had a fuss, yo' know, an' she jis' fixed me while ah wuz sleepin', see. An' now de whole haid of it's no good.
(I see. Well, what did she do to you?)
She put some HINDU STUFF on it. She sent tuh Chicago fo' it. (Well, what effect did this have or how does it act?) Well, it didn't verk on me fo' 'bout fo' [four] days; an' aftah ah found out whut it wuz, ah went tuh de rootman. See, mah mothah sent me tuh de root man an' he tole me he couldn't do me no good, ah wuz too fah [far] gone. Dat stuff had et [eaten] in dere, see. He couldn't do me no mo'[more] good.
(HAVE YOU EVER GONE TO A REGULAR DOCTOR ABOUT IT?)
YES, SIR, AH WENT TUH A REG'LAH DOCTAH.
(WHAT DID HE SAY ABOUT IT?)
SAID, DERE WUZN'T NUTHIN TUH DO BUT CUT IT OFF.
(Did he say it wuz any kind of disease or anything?)
No, jis' poisoned. Yes, sir, jis' poisoned.
(Well, what did your wife do then? Did she leave you or what?)
Ah lef' 'er [I left her].