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Twelve Months Late: Case Refused
Volume 1, entries 874. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → Consultation Technique. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 874
(I see. Can you tell me what happened - just how it was done or how they were cured? What happened?) Was no cure to dis.
(Oh, I see. You know how it was done, though?) Yes. (All right - suppose you tell me that?) Hit was - (Go ahead - go ahead.)
It was a girl friend of mine. She was hurt. Well, she went to a doctor and the doctor say she have to be operated on. Well, she went through the operation and come back home and about a year - she lingered and lingered about a year after the operation. Well, her father say, "Well, I'm going to take you to a lady that I know could tell me something concerning your trouble." So he carried her.
(Where did this happen - here in Vicksburg?)
No, sir.
(Where did this happen?)
In Louisiana - way over in Louisiana. And he said, "I'm goin' carry you to a lady that kin tell me more about your trouble. And he carried her to the lady and she told him, say, "Look, you twelve months late with this girl," say, "her insides is eat up - her insides is fulla holes just like a sifter, and it's done into her by brass pins." She'd taken them there rags, you know.
(A woman's rags?)
Yes, sir.
(Monthly rags?)
Yes, sir. She took them pins and that brass pin in there and buried it and eight-penny nails - about twelve eight-penny nails. That's what she told him.
(How many brass pins did he put in?)
Twelve and twelve nails.
(Well, what did he do with that rag then, after he put those nails in it?)
Buried it.
(Where did this happen in Louisiana?)
Near Leesville, Louisiana.
(Near Leesville, Louisiana. How many years ago would that be?)
That was in '29 [1929].
The reported account names brass pins and separately nails. The alleged practice and injury are not authenticated, and pins are not relabeled as needles.