CONTENTS.
The Yankee amongst the Mermaids; a Yarn by a Cape Codder, with an illustration—Leap Year; or, A Woman's Privilege—The Two Pigs, a Swinish Colloquy—Thaumaturgia; Part First. The Yankee in Hell, with an illustration; Part Second, The Resurrectionists; Part Third, The Canal-boat; Part Fourth, The Last and the Least—My First Fight, with an illustration—Immiscible Immigration, a petty Peter Pindaric—Sam Weller, a Soliloquy in Verse—The Pic-Nic Party, with two illustrations—The Poetry of Niagara—A Wet Day at a Watering Place—My First Punch, with an illustration—The Scapegrace and the Scapegoat, a Matter-of-fact Sketch—The Old Dutchman and his Long Box, with an illustration—The Man in the Big Boots—Dickey Doddicombe, with an illustration—Philadelphia in the Dog-days—&c. &c.
"The drollest specimen of waggery that ever emanated from that drollest of men, Burton."—The City Item.
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ODD LEAVES FROM THE LIFE
OF A
LOUISIANA "SWAMP DOCTOR."
BY MADISON TENSAS, M. D.
EX V. P. M. S. U. KY.
CONTENTS.
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—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.