As well as teachers, there
were other professionals in the village.
I was surprised the other day to learn that medical
research had discovered a direct connection between the smell of a person’s
wind release and certain ailments. Why it surprised me is that sixty years
ago Dr George McPheat told the women in our village that
they must not clean and 'air' the sick room before he came as he could tell the
moment he smelt the air what the patient was likely to be suffering from.
Dr George was quite a character, when
my father went into the local cottage hospital for a minor operation sixty
years ago, one of the men in the ward developed stomach cramps. While he was
examining the man, Dr George asked the matron what the patient had eaten and was
told stiffly, “Nothing that would do him any harm, Doctor. The food is very nutritious and he's had a spoon of castor
oil to keep his bowels moving.”
“Ah,” said the doctor, “it’s a great
thing the castor oil , I take it regularly myself, ---------------- once a
year.”
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