My Dad was a physician from the old school. After graduation
from U of Illinois’ Med school in Chicago, he did graduate work in microbiology
for the meat packing industry and delivered babies in Cicero. He told many
stories and I saw some of it firsthand. I followed him around on house calls
and hospital rounds, waiting in the car of course from the time I was 4 or 5
years old. The second hand cigar smoke was great and so were the stories.
One such tale involved a class mate of his who went into
practice in a small town in Texas. Obesity was a problem as it is today and
this young doctor had a solution. In secret he cut segments of the readily available
beef tape worm and placed them in capsules dispensing them to his obese
patients. (Emphatically not recommended) This was highly effective and when the
patient became skinny enough he purged them with pumpkin seeds. It was not
long, however, before the locals caught on. An outraged citizenry took matters
into their own hands; they tared and feathered the poor doctor and rode him out
of town on the rail.
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