The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West / Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character
Containing The Whole Of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks Of Squatter Life; And Far-Western Scenes; In A Series Of Forty-Two Humorous Southern And Western Sketches, Descriptive Of Incidents And Character.
CONTENTS
The city physician, or the country doctor of an old-settled locality, with all the appliances of cultivated and refined life around them; possessing all the numberless conveniences and luxuries of the sick-room; capable of controlling the many adverse circumstances that exert such a pernicious influence upon successful practice; having at command the assistance, in critical and anomalous cases, of scientific and experienced coadjutors; the facilities of good roads; the advantages of comfortable dwellings, easy carriages, and the pleasures of commingling with a cultivated, mild, refined society, cannot fully realize and appreciate the condition of their less favoured, humble brethren, who, impelled by youthfulness, poverty, defective education, or the reckless spirit of adventure, have taken up their lot with society nearly in its primitive condition, and dispense the blessings of their profession to the inhabitants of a country, where the obscure bridle-path, the unbridged water-courses, the deadened forest trees, the ringing of the woodman's axe, the humble log cabin, the homespun dress, and all the many sober, hard realities of pioneer life, attest the youthfulness of the settlement.
The city physician may be of timorous nature and weak and effeminate constitution: the “swamp doctor,” whose midnight ride is often saluted by the scream of the panther, must be of courageous nature, and in physical endurance as hardy as one of his own grand alluvial oaks, whose canopy of leaves is many a night his only shelter.
The city physician may be of fastidious taste, and exquisiteness of feeling; the swamp doctor must have the unconcernedness of the dissecting-room, and be prepared to swallow his peck of dirt all at once.
John S. Robb
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THE SWAMP DOCTOR'S ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH-WEST.
Illustrated by Darley.
1858
THE CITY PHYSICIAN versus THE SWAMP DOCTOR.
MY EARLY LIFE.
GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE MEDICINES.
A TIGHT RACE CONSIDERIN'.
TAKING GOOD ADVICE.
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.
A RATTLESNAKE ON A STEAMBOAT.
FRANK AND THE PROFESSOR.
THE CURIOUS WIDOW.
THE MISSISSIPPI PATENT PLAN FOR PULLING TEETH.
VALERIAN AND THE PANTHER.
SEEKING A LOCATION
CUPPING AN IRISHMAN.
BEING EXAMINED FOR MY DEGREE.
STEALING A BABY.
THE “SWAMP DOCTOR” TO ESCULAPIUS.
THE SWAMP DOCTOR TO ESCULAPIUS.
MY FIRST CALL IN THE SWAMP.
THE MAN OF ARISTOCRATIC DISEASES.
THE INDEFATIGABLE BEAR-HUNTER.
LOVE IN A GARDEN.
HOW TO CURE FITS.
A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
THE END.
STREAKS OF SQUATTER LIFE, AND FAR-WEST SCENES.
1846
PREFACE.
STREAKS OF SQUATTER LIFE, AND FAR-WEST SCENES.
THE WESTERN WANDERINGS OF A TYPO.
CHAPTER I. THE WAY HE WAS “BROUGHT UP.”
CHAPTER II. AN ADVENTURE AMONG THE OFFICIALS.
CHAPTER III. JOHN'S EDITORIAL CAREER.
CHAPTER IV. HIS WANDERINGS THROUGH THE PRAIRIES.
CHAPTER V. HIS ENCOUNTER WITH OLD FRIENDS.
“NOT A DROP MORE, MAJOR, UNLESS IT'S SWEETEN'D.”
NETTLE BOTTOM BALL; OR, BETSY JONES' TUMBLE IN THE MUSH PAN.
A “CAT” STORY, WHICH MUST NOT BE CUR-TAILED.
A SPIRITUAL SISTER, HER ENCOUNTER WITH A DOUBTFUL SMITH.
HOSS ALLEN'S APOLOGY; OR, THE CANDIDATE'S NIGHT IN A MUSQUITO SWAMP!
NATURAL ACTING! DAN MARBLE'S FIRST APPEARANCE AT GRAND RIVER, MICHIGAN.
A CANAL ADVENTURE.
THE STANDING CANDIDATE. HIS EXCUSE FOR BEING A BACHELOR.
AN EMIGRANT'S PERILS; OR, A FLYING TICKET ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
FUN WITH A “BAB.” A NIGHT ADVENTURE ON THE MISSOURI.
TELEGRAPHING AN EXPRESS. A NIGHT'S ADVENTURE IN THE AMERICAN BOTTOM.
THE PRE-EMPTION RIGHT; OR, DICK KELSY'S SIGNATURE TO HIS LAND CLAIM.
YALLEK PLEDGES; OR, THE FIGHT ABOUT SALLY SPILLMAN.
GEORGE MUNDAY, THE HATLESS PROPHET.
COURTING IN FRENCH HOLLOW.
THE SECOND ADVENT! TOM BANGALL, THE ENGINEER, AND MILLERISM.
SETTLEMENT FUN. BILL SAPPER'S LETTER TO HIS COUSIN.
Liberti, Missury, May 6t. 18 forty 5.
“DOING” A LANDLORD. A STORY OF SHAPE AND TALENT.
WHO IS SIR GEORGE SIMPSON? AN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE ABOUT HIM.
LETTERS FROM A BABY. BY A FORWARD CHILD.
NO. II.-BUB IN PERIL.
NO. III.—BUB RESCUED.
NO. IV.—BUB FLOURISHING.
NO. V.-BUB AGAIN IN DANGER.
SETH TINDER'S FIRST COURTSHIP, HOW HIS FLAME WAS QUENCHED!
THE DEATH STRUGGLE; OR, THE WAY SMITH DID UP JONES.
“WHO ARE THEY?” A QUESTION OF VITAL IMPORT.
THE END.
