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Well, we made the best preparations that we could, although of these I did not see much, since all that day my time was occupied in attending to the wounded with the help of my son and a few rough orderlies, whose experience in doctoring had for the most part been confined to cattle. A pitiful business it proved without the aid of anæsthetics or a proper supply of bandages and other appliances.
He knows best how to cure his wound, by the application of a few simples; and by thus making off has relieved us of the trouble and responsibility of trying our hands at civilized doctoring. "Young man," retorted Jo, gravely, "I'd have you to know that the family of the Bumpuses is an old and a honorable one.
Caroline was fortunate in finding Stephens the gardener, who was considered very skilful in doctoring sick animals; at anyrate, he had set the leg of one of her chickens when it was broken, and managed to bring Neptune through a severe illness, therefore it was to be supposed he could cure the donkey also.
How can you do without a surgeon?" said Captain Brine. "Mere fleabites, sir nothing to signify. The doctor has patched up my side, and says I shall do well; and the lads I wish to take with me are only slightly hurt, and don't want doctoring."
"You'll do all you can for him I know, doctor," he added, addressing the surgeon, who, with the aid of the master and another officer, had already lifted up the young stranger. "He wants nourishment more than doctoring," answered the surgeon. While the midshipman was being carried into the cabin, the assistant-surgeon was examining the other men.
"That's utopian, Louise, but it isn't generally practicable." "Then make it individually practicable, uncle just this time. Pshaw! I don't believe you're half-trying to argue. Why, when Boyar bucked you off that time and ran into the barb-wire, then he didn't need doctoring for that awful cut on his shoulder, because he had done wrong." "That is no parallel, Louise. Boyar didn't know any better.
Money buys air and sunshine, in which children grow up more kindly, of course, than in close, back streets; it buys country-places to give them happy and healthy summers, good nursing, good doctoring, and the best cuts of beef and mutton. When the spring-chickens come to market I beg your pardon, that is not what I was going to speak of.
I can't stop the machines for half an hour, can I, just to let you have the chance of doctoring your leader? If you thought it wrong to write it, you ought never to have written it; now it's written it must certainly stand. Ernest sank into a chair, and said nothing; but he turned so deadly pale that Mr.
Except for the toad-powder and the peremptory drastics, one might have borne up against this herb doctoring as well as against some more modern styles of medication.
And I say, Sir, perhaps, as no doubt you have been living in town, and know more of newfangled notions than I do, perhaps you can tell us whether or not it is all humbug, that new way of doctoring people." LEONARD. "What new way, sir. There are so many." SQUIRE. "Are there? Folks in London do look uncommonly sickly. PARSON. "Homoeopathist." SQUIRE. "That's it.
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