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+                  A DOCTOR OF THE OLD SCHOOL
+
+                       by Ian Maclaren
+
+                   A GENERAL PRACTITIONER
+
+                          Book I.
+
+
+
+PREFACE
+
+It is with great good will that I write this short preface to the
+edition of "A Doctor of the Old School" (which has been illustrated by
+Mr. Gordon after an admirable and understanding fashion) because there
+are two things that I should like to say to my readers, being also my
+friends.
+
+One, is to answer a question that has been often and fairly asked. Was
+there ever any doctor so self-forgetful and so utterly Christian as
+William MacLure? To which I am proud to reply, on my conscience: Not one
+man, but many in Scotland and in the South country. I will dare prophecy
+also across the sea.
+
+It has been one man's good fortune to know four country doctors, not one
+of whom was without his faults--Weelum was not perfect--but who, each
+one, might have sat for my hero. Three are now resting from their
+labors, and the fourth, if he ever should see these lines, would never
+identify himself.
+
+Then I desire to thank my readers, and chiefly the medical profession
+for the reception given to the Doctor of Drumtochty.
+
+For many years I have desired to pay some tribute to a class whose
+service to the community was known to every countryman, but after the
+tale had gone forth my heart failed. For it might have been despised
+for the little grace of letters in the style and because of the outward
+roughness of the man. But neither his biographer nor his circumstances
+have been able to obscure MacLure who has himself won all honest hearts,
+and received afresh the recognition of his more distinguished brethren.
+From all parts of the English-speaking world letters have come in
+commendation of Weelum MacLure, and many were from doctors who had
+received new courage. It is surely more honor than a new writer could
+ever have deserved to receive the approbation of a profession whose
+charity puts us all to shame.
+
+May I take this first opportunity to declare how deeply my heart has
+been touched by the favor shown to a simple book by the American people,
+and to express my hope that one day it may be given me to see you face
+to face.
+
+IAN MACLAREN. Liverpool, Oct. 4, 1895.
+
+
+
+
+                        A GENERAL PRACTITIONER
+
+
+
+I
+
+A GENERAL PRACTITIONER
+
+Drumtochty was accustomed to break every law of health, except wholesome
+food and fresh air, and yet had reduced the Psalmist's farthest limit to
+an average life-rate. Our men made no difference in their clothes for
+summer or winter, Drumsheugh and one or two of the larger farmers
+condescending to a topcoat on Sabbath, as a penalty of their position,
+and without regard to temperature. They wore their blacks at a funeral,
+refusing to cover them with anything, out of respect to the deceased,
+and standing longest in the kirkyard when the north wind was blowing
+across a hundred miles of snow. If the rain was pouring at the Junction,
+then Drumtochty stood two minutes longer through sheer native dourness
+till each man had a cascade from the tail of his coat, and hazarded the
+suggestion, halfway to Kildrummie, that it had been "a bit scrowie,"
+a "scrowie" being as far short of a "shoor" as a "shoor" fell below
+"weet."
+
+[Illustration: SANDY STEWART "NAPPED" STONES]
+
+This sustained defiance of the elements provoked occasional judgments in
+the shape of a "hoast" (cough), and the head of the house was then
+exhorted by his women folk to "change his feet" if he had happened to
+walk through a burn on his way home, and was pestered generally with
+sanitary precautions. It is right to add that the  gudeman treated such
+advice with contempt, regarding it as suitable for the effeminacy of
+towns, but not seriously intended for Drumtochty. Sandy Stewart "napped"
+stones on the road in his shirt sleeves, wet or fair, summer and winter,
+till he was persuaded to retire from active duty at eighty-five, and he
+spent ten years more in regretting his hastiness and criticising his
+successor. The ordinary course of life, with fine air and contented
+minds, was to do a full share of work till seventy, and then to look
+after "orra" jobs well into the eighties, and to "slip awa" within sight
+of ninety. Persons above ninety were understood to be acquitting
+themselves with credit, and assumed airs of authority, brushing aside
+the opinions of seventy as immature, and confirming their conclusions
+with illustrations drawn from the end of last century.
+
+When Hillocks' brother so far forgot himself as to "slip awa"
+at sixty, that worthy man was scandalized, and offered laboured
+explanations at the "beerial."
+
+"It's an awfu' business ony wy ye look at it, an' a sair trial tae us
+a'. A' never heard tell o' sic a thing in oor family afore, an' it's no
+easy accoontin' for't.
+
+"The gudewife was sayin' he wes never the same sin' a weet nicht he lost
+himsel on the muir and slept below a bush; but that's neither here nor
+there. A'm thinkin' he sappit his constitution thae twa years he wes
+grieve aboot England. That wes thirty years syne, but ye're never the
+same aifter thae foreign climates."
+
+Drumtochty listened patiently to Hillocks' apology, but was not
+satisfied.
+
+"It's clean havers about the muir. Losh keep's, we've a' sleepit oot and
+never been a hair the waur.
+
+"A' admit that England micht hae dune the job; it's no cannie stravagin'
+yon wy frae place tae place, but Drums never complained tae me if he hed
+been nippit in the Sooth."
+
+The parish had, in fact, lost confidence in Drums after his wayward
+experiment with a potato-digging machine, which turned out a lamentable
+failure, and his premature departure confirmed our vague impression of
+his character.
+
+"He's awa noo," Drumsheugh summed up, after opinion had time to form;
+"an' there were waur fouk than Drums, but there's nae doot he was a wee
+flichty."
+
+When illness had the audacity to attack a Drumtochty man, it was
+described as a "whup," and was treated by the men with a fine
+negligence. Hillocks was sitting in the post-office one afternoon when
+I looked in for my letters, and the right side of his face was blazing
+red. His subject of discourse was the prospects of the turnip "breer,"
+but he casually explained that he was waiting for medical advice.
+
+"The gudewife is keepin' up a ding-dong frae mornin' till nicht aboot ma
+face, and a'm fair deaved (deafened), so a'm watchin' for MacLure tae
+get a bottle as he comes wast; yon's him noo."
+
+The doctor made his diagnosis from horseback on sight, and stated the
+result with that admirable clearness which endeared him to Drumtochty.
+
+"Confoond ye, Hillocks, what are ye ploiterin' aboot here for in the
+weet wi' a face like a boiled beet? Div ye no ken that ye've a titch o'
+the rose (erysipelas), and ocht tae be in the hoose? Gae hame wi' ye
+afore a' leave the bit, and send a haflin for some medicine. Ye donnerd
+idiot, are ye ettlin tae follow Drums afore yir time?" And the medical
+attendant of Drumtochty continued his invective till Hillocks started,
+and still pursued his  retreating figure with medical directions of a
+simple and practical character.
+
+[Illustration: "THE GUDEWIFE IS KEEPIN' UP A DING-DONG"]
+
+"A'm watchin', an' peety ye if ye pit aff time. Keep yir bed the
+mornin', and dinna show yir face in the fields till a' see ye. A'll gie
+ye a cry on Monday--sic an auld fule--but there's no are o' them tae
+mind anither in the hale pairish."
+
+Hillocks' wife informed the kirkyaird that the doctor "gied the gudeman
+an awfu' clear-in'," and that Hillocks "wes keepin' the hoose," which
+meant that the patient had tea breakfast, and at that time was wandering
+about the farm buildings in an easy undress with his head in a plaid.
+
+It was impossible for a doctor to earn even the most modest competence
+from a people of such scandalous health, and so MacLure had annexed
+neighbouring parishes. His house--little more than a cottage--stood on
+the roadside among the pines towards the head of our Glen, and from this
+base of operations he dominated the wild glen that broke the wall of the
+Grampians above Drumtochty--where the snow drifts were twelve feet deep
+in winter, and the only way of passage at times was the channel of the
+river--and the moorland district westwards till he came to the Dunleith
+sphere of influence, where there were four doctors and a hydropathic.
+Drumtochty in its length, which was eight miles, and its breadth, which
+was four, lay in his hand; besides a glen behind, unknown to the world,
+which in the night time he visited at the risk of life, for the way
+thereto was across the big moor with its peat holes and treacherous
+bogs. And he held the land eastwards towards Muirtown so far as Geordie,
+the Drumtochty post, travelled every day, and could carry word that the
+doctor was wanted. He did his best for the need of every man, woman and
+child in this wild, straggling district, year in, year out, in the snow
+and in the heat, in the dark and in the light, without rest, and without
+holiday for forty years.
+
+One horse could not do the work of this man, but we liked best to see
+him on his old white mare, who died the week after her master, and the
+passing of the two did our hearts good. It was not that he rode
+beautifully, for he broke every canon of art, flying with his arms,
+stooping till he seemed to be speaking into Jess's ears, and rising in
+the saddle beyond all necessity. But he could rise faster, stay longer
+in the saddle, and had a firmer grip with his knees than any one I ever
+met, and it was all for mercy's sake. When the reapers in harvest time
+saw a figure whirling past in a cloud of dust, or the family at the foot
+of Glen Urtach, gathered round the fire on a winter's night, heard the
+rattle of a horse's hoofs on the road, or the shepherds, out after the
+sheep, traced a black speck moving across the snow to the upper glen,
+they knew it was the doctor, and, without being conscious of it, wished
+him God speed.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Before and behind his saddle were strapped the instruments and medicines
+the doctor might want, for he never knew what was before him. There were
+no specialists in Drumtochty, so this man had to do everything as best
+he could, and as quickly. He was chest doctor and doctor for every other
+organ as well; he was accoucheur and surgeon; he was oculist and aurist;
+he was dentist and chloroformist, besides being chemist and druggist.
+It was often told how he was far up Glen Urtach when the feeders of the
+threshing mill caught young Burnbrae, and how he only stopped to change
+horses at his house, and galloped all the way to Burnbrae, and flung
+himself off his horse and amputated the arm, and saved the lad's life.
+
+"You wud hae thocht that every meenut was an hour," said Jamie Soutar,
+who had been at the threshing, "an' a'll never forget the puir lad lying
+as white as deith on the floor o' the loft, wi' his head on a sheaf, an'
+Burnbrae haudin' the bandage ticht an' prayin' a' the while, and the
+mither greetin' in the corner.
+
+"'Will he never come?' she cries, an' a' heard the soond o' the horse's
+feet on the road a mile awa in the frosty air.
+
+"'The Lord be praised!' said Burnbrae, and a' slippit doon the ladder
+as the doctor came skelpin' intae the close, the foam fleein' frae his
+horse's mooth.
+
+"Whar is he?' wes a' that passed his lips, an' in five meenuts he hed
+him on the feedin' board, and wes at his wark--sic wark, neeburs--but he
+did it weel. An' ae thing a' thocht rael thochtfu' o' him: he first sent
+aff the laddie's mither tae get a bed ready.
+
+"Noo that's feenished, and his constitution 'ill dae the rest," and he
+carried the lad doon the ladder in his airms like a bairn, and laid him
+in his bed, and waits aside him till he wes sleepin', and then says he:
+'Burnbrae, yir gey lad never tae say 'Collie, will yelick?' for a' hevna
+tasted meat for saxteen hoors.'
+
+"It was michty tae see him come intae the yaird that day, neeburs; the
+verra look o' him wes victory."
+
+[Illustration: "THE VERRA LOOK O' HIM WES VICTORY"]
+
+Jamie's cynicism slipped off in the enthusiasm of this reminiscence, and
+he expressed the feeling of Drumtochty. No one sent for MacLure save in
+great straits, and the sight of him put courage in sinking hearts. But
+this was not by the grace of his appearance, or the advantage of a good
+bedside manner. A tall, gaunt, loosely made man, without an ounce of
+superfluous flesh on his body, his face burned a dark brick color by
+constant exposure to the weather, red hair and beard turning grey,
+honest blue eyes that look you ever in the face, huge hands with wrist
+bones like the shank of a ham, and a voice that hurled his salutations
+across two fields, he suggested the moor rather  than the drawing-room.
+But what a clever hand it was in an operation, as delicate as a woman's,
+and what a kindly voice it was in the humble room where the shepherd's
+wife was weeping by her man's bedside. He was "ill pitten the gither" to
+begin with, but many of his physical defects were the penalties of his
+work, and endeared him to the Glen. That ugly scar that cut into his
+right eyebrow and gave him such a sinister expression, was got one night
+Jess slipped on the ice and laid him insensible eight miles from home.
+His limp marked the big snowstorm in the fifties, when his horse missed
+the road in Glen Urtach, and they rolled together in a drift. MacLure
+escaped with a broken leg and the fracture of three ribs, but he never
+walked like other men again. He could not swing himself into the saddle
+without making two attempts and holding Jess's mane. Neither can you
+"warstle" through the peat bogs and snow drifts for forty winters
+without a touch of rheumatism. But they were honorable scars, and for
+such risks of life men get the Victoria Cross in other fields.
+
+[Illustration: "FOR SUCH RISKS OF LIFE MEN GET THE VICTORIA CROSS IN
+OTHER FIELDS"]
+
+MacLure got nothing but the secret affection of the Glen, which knew
+that none had ever done one-tenth as much for it as this ungainly,
+twisted, battered figure, and I have  seen a Drumtochty face
+soften at the sight of MacLure limping to his horse.
+
+Mr. Hopps earned the ill-will of the Glen for ever by criticising
+the doctor's dress, but indeed it would have filled any townsman with
+amazement. Black he wore once a year, on Sacrament Sunday, and, if
+possible, at a funeral; topcoat or waterproof never. His jacket and
+waistcoat were rough homespun of Glen Urtach wool, which threw off the
+wet like a duck's back, and below he was clad in shepherd's tartan
+trousers, which disappeared into unpolished riding boots. His shirt was
+grey flannel, and he was uncertain about a collar, but certain as to a
+tie which he never had, his beard doing instead, and his hat was soft
+felt of four colors and seven different shapes. His point of distinction
+in dress was the trousers, and they were the subject of unending
+speculation.
+
+"Some threep that he's worn thae eedentical pair the last twenty year,
+an' a' mind masel him gettin' a tear ahint, when he was crossin' oor
+palin', and the mend's still veesible.
+
+"Ithers declare 'at he's got a wab o' claith, and hes a new pair made in
+Muirtown aince in the twa year maybe, and keeps them in the garden till
+the new look wears aff.
+
+"For ma ain pairt," Soutar used to declare, "a' canna mak up my mind,
+but there's ae thing sure, the Glen wud not like tae see him withoot
+them: it wud be a shock tae confidence. There's no muckle o' the check
+left, but ye can aye tell it, and when ye see thae breeks comin' in ye
+ken that if human pooer can save yir bairn's life it 'ill be dune."
+
+The confidence of the Glen--and tributary states--was unbounded, and
+rested partly on long experience of the doctor's resources, and partly
+on his hereditary connection.
+
+"His father was here afore him," Mrs. Macfadyen used to explain; "atween
+them they've hed the countyside for weel on tae a century; if MacLure
+disna understand oor constitution, wha dis, a' wud like tae ask?"
+
+For Drumtochty had its own constitution and a special throat disease, as
+became a parish which was quite self-contained between the woods and the
+hills, and not dependent on the lowlands either for its diseases or its
+doctors.
+
+"He's a skilly man, Doctor MacLure," continued my friend Mrs. Macfayden,
+whose judgment on sermons or anything else was seldom at fault; "an'
+a kind-hearted, though o' coorse he hes his faults like us a', an' he
+disna tribble the Kirk often.
+
+"He aye can tell what's wrang wi' a body, an' maistly he can put ye
+richt, and there's nae new-fangled wys wi' him: a blister for the
+ootside an' Epsom salts for the inside dis his wark, an' they say
+there's no an herb on the hills he disna ken.
+
+"If we're tae dee, we're tae dee; an' if we're tae live, we're tae live,"
+concluded Elspeth, with sound Calvinistic logic; "but a'll say this
+for the doctor, that whether yir tae live or dee, he can aye keep up a
+sharp meisture on the skin."
+
+"But he's no veera ceevil gin ye bring him when there's naethin' wrang,"
+and Mrs. Macfayden's face reflected another of Mr. Hopps' misadventures
+of which Hillocks held the copyright.
+
+"Hopps' laddie ate grosarts (gooseberries) till they hed to sit up a'
+nicht wi' him, an' naethin' wud do but they maun hae the doctor, an' he
+writes 'immediately' on a slip o' paper.
+
+"Weel, MacLure had been awa a' nicht wi' a shepherd's wife Dunleith wy,
+and he comes here withoot drawin' bridle, mud up tae the cen.
+
+"'What's a dae here, Hillocks?" he cries; 'it's no an accident, is't?'
+and when he got aff his horse he cud hardly stand wi' stiffness and
+tire.
+
+"'It's nane o' us, doctor; it's Hopps' laddie; he's been eatin' ower
+mony berries.'
+
+[Illustration: "HOPPS' LADDIE ATE GROSARTS"]
+
+"If he didna turn on me like a tiger.
+
+"Div ye mean tae say----'
+
+"'Weesht, weesht,' an' I tried tae quiet him, for Hopps wes comin' oot.
+
+"'Well, doctor,' begins he, as brisk as a magpie, 'you're here at last;
+there's no hurry with you Scotchmen. My boy has been sick all night, and
+I've never had one wink of sleep. You might have come a little quicker,
+that's all I've got to say.'
+
+"We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a
+sair stomach,' and a' saw MacLure wes roosed.
+
+"'I'm astonished to hear you speak. Our doctor at home always says to
+Mrs. 'Opps "Look on me as a family friend, Mrs. 'Opps, and send for me
+though it be only a headache."'
+
+"'He'd be mair sparin' o' his offers if he hed four and twenty mile tae
+look aifter. There's naethin' wrang wi' yir laddie but greed. Gie him a
+gude dose o' castor oil and stop his meat for a day, an' he 'ill be a'
+richt the morn.'
+
+"'He 'ill not take castor oil, doctor. We have given up those barbarous
+medicines.'
+
+"'Whatna kind o' medicines hae ye noo in the Sooth?'
+
+"'Well, you see, Dr. MacLure, we're homoeopathists, and I've my little
+chest here,' and oot Hopps comes wi' his boxy.
+
+"'Let's see't,' an' MacLure sits doon and taks oot the bit bottles, and
+he reads the names wi' a lauch every time.
+
+"'Belladonna; did ye ever hear the like? Aconite; it cowes a'. Nux
+Vomica. What next? Weel, ma mannie,' he says tae Hopps, 'it's a fine
+ploy, and ye 'ill better gang on wi' the Nux till it's dune, and gie him
+ony ither o' the sweeties he fancies.
+
+"'Noo, Hillocks, a' maun be aff tae see Drumsheugh's grieve, for he's
+doon wi' the fever, and it's tae be a teuch fecht. A' hinna time tae
+wait for dinner; gie me some cheese an' cake in ma haund, and Jess 'ill
+tak a pail o' meal an' water.
+
+"'Fee; a'm no wantin' yir fees, man; wi' that boxy ye dinna need a
+doctor; na, na, gie yir siller tae some puir body, Maister Hopps,' an'
+he was doon the road as hard as he cud lick."
+
+His fees were pretty much what the folk chose to give him, and he
+collected them once a year at Kildrummie fair.
+
+"Well, doctor, what am a' awin' ye for the wife and bairn? Ye 'ill need
+three notes for that nicht ye stayed in the hoose an' a' the veesits."
+
+"Havers," MacLure would answer, "prices are low, a'm hearing; gie's
+thirty shillings."
+
+"No, a'll no, or the wife 'ill tak ma ears off," and it was settled for
+two pounds. Lord Kilspindie gave him a free house and fields, and one
+way or other, Drumsheugh told me, the doctor might get in about L150.
+a year, out of which he had to pay his old housekeeper's wages and a
+boy's, and keep two horses, besides the cost of instruments and books,
+which he bought through a friend in Edinburgh with much judgment.
+
+There was only one man who ever complained of the doctor's charges, and
+that was the new farmer of Milton, who was so good that he was above
+both churches, and held a meeting in his barn. (It was Milton the Glen
+supposed at first to be a Mormon, but I can't go into that now.) He
+offered MacLure a pound less than he asked, and two tracts, whereupon
+MacLure expressed his opinion of Milton, both from a theological and
+social standpoint, with such vigor and frankness that an attentive
+audience of Drumtochty men could hardly contain themselves. Jamie Soutar
+was selling his pig at the time, and missed the meeting, but he hastened
+to condole with Milton, who was complaining everywhere of the doctor's
+language.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Ye did richt tae resist him; it 'ill maybe roose the Glen tae mak a
+stand; he fair hands them in bondage.
+
+"Thirty shillings for twal veesits, and him no mair than seeven mile
+awa, an' a'm telt there werena mair than four at nicht.
+
+"Ye 'ill hae the sympathy o' the Glen, for a' body kens yir as free wi'
+yir siller as yir tracts.
+
+"Wes't 'Beware o' gude warks' ye offered him? Man, ye choose it weel,
+for he's been colleckin' sae mony thae forty years, a'm feared for him.
+
+"A've often thocht oor doctor's little better than the Gude Samaritan,
+an' the Pharisees didna think muckle o' his chance aither in this warld
+or that which is tae come."
+
+
+
+
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