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Chas. D. Dixon, M. D.
"The doctor knew his business, all right, for almost the
day that I began living on what he wanted me to, the peo-
ple at the office began to be more agreeable. They had
gotten over their grouch, and it wasn't any time until I
was clapping them on the back and again calling them Tom
and Ted. But if I hadn't insisted, the doctor would have
tried to put me off with indigestion and never have made
the second examination when he found what was really the
matter with me. Doctors are all right, but you've got to
watch them."
Isn't it strange what a name will do? Our overcoats are
advertised as English cut, and "Meladies" gowns and hats
must at least be said to be of the very latest Parisian style,
while we pay the extra price at the fashionable restaurants
for "Pomme de Terre," knowing all the while they are just
ordinary potatoes. In the very same way we like to speak
of a severe stomach ache as a slight attack of appendicitis.
But it does not make any difference whether we call it
just plain belly ache or by some other name, it is all the
same in Dutch.101
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Dixon, Chas. D. (Charles D.). The Menace, an Exposition of Quackery Nostrum Exploitation and Reminiscences of a Country Doctor, book, 1914; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143569/m1/119/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.