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advanced from town in the middle of the discussions. He was lively and joked with the men and had a few laughs also. In other words he seem to be at peace with the world both mentally and physically. He made no coment as to his destination; but we could plainly see that he followed the County Line south and disapeared over the hill and was on his way to Dr. Musser's Office which was a quarter mile away from where we first saw him. The Doctor must have had several patients that morning because it could not have been over twenty minute before some one from that office retraced Fred Foggy's steps and notified us that there were no Ifs or ands about it that Fred Foggy was really dead. 
He had looked as sound as a Dollar when the United States was on the Gold and Silver standard in 1914 when everybody demanded that there monotory claim be paid in American dollars. It was unbelievable that with all the Humor and mirth he had been unfortunate and had gotten a social contageous malady known as Veneral disease. His friends and the public were plenty excited and they did not circulate or perpetuate good will; as a matter of fact they wanted to crucify Dr. Musser. Dr. John H. Williams and Dr. C. G. Robinson lived in dwelling houses that were built by Reuben Gaines Sr; it was from these two Doctors that I derived some medical history so when I ask them why did Fred Foggy die? and they explained it in this manner,- "You perhaps know about the bottle or bag that the women hung up on side of the wall with a long rubber tubs attached to it; but in this situation it was used to give an intraveneous injection but the Doctor was negligent and made a gross error by not purging the rubber tube and cause and air space so when that air bubble flowed to the heart it stopped for the heart was designed to pump blood or fluid but not air
A few months prior to this time a cure for V. D. was on the market called 606 which I believe was laudnum (some kind of poison) mixed with other chemica which would kill the germs in the blood stream if the treatment was taken in time before any symptums occured, and if not the patient would be subject to spinal punctures to destroy the germs in the spine. I have often wondered if the Doctors at that time knew anything about electric impulse; resusitation or pumping the chest up and down to force air into the lungs; It is most like that they just stood there without any effort and watched the "dead" patient. 
After the public was better informed; tension lessened and they seem to understand that regardless of the Doctor's degree he was also human and to error is human and it was commendable to forgive and forget. 
Dr. Musser's age was difficult to determine because he dyed his hair although it had turned green; as a matter of fact it was the first person I had ever seen with green hair. His age could have been any where from 35 to 50 but his nurse was about my age and I am quite sure they had something goin He treated a long scratch on my wrist from a kid's finger nails that would no

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PAGE 24. Buxton. advanced from town in the middle of the discussions. He was lively and joked with the men and had a few laughs also. In other words he seem to be at peace with the world both mentally and physically. He made no coment as to his destination; but we could plainly see that he followed the County Line south and disapeared over the hill and was on his way to Dr. Musser's Office which was a quarter mile away from where we first saw him. The Doctor must have had several patients that morning because it could not have been over twenty minute before some one from that office retraced Fred Foggy's steps and notified us that there were no Ifs or ands about it that Fred Foggy was really dead. He had looked as sound as a Dollar when the United States was on the Gold and Silver standard in 1914 when everybody demanded that there monotory claim be paid in American dollars. It was unbelievable that with all the Humor and mirth he had been unfortunate and had gotten a social contageous malady known as Veneral disease. His friends and the public were plenty excited and they did not circulate or perpetuate good will; as a matter of fact they wanted to crucify Dr. Musser. Dr. John H. Williams and Dr. C. G. Robinson lived in dwelling houses that were built by Reuben Gaines Sr; it was from these two Doctors that I derived some medical history so when I ask them why did Fred Foggy die? and they explained it in this manner,- "You perhaps know about the bottle or bag that the women hung up on side of the wall with a long rubber tubs attached to it; but in this situation it was used to give an intraveneous injection but the Doctor was negligent and made a gross error by not purging the rubber tube and cause and air space so when that air bubble flowed to the heart it stopped for the heart was designed to pump blood or fluid but not air A few months prior to this time a cure for V. D. was on the market called 606 which I believe was laudnum (some kind of poison) mixed with other chemica which would kill the germs in the blood stream if the treatment was taken in time before any symptums occured, and if not the patient would be subject to spinal punctures to destroy the germs in the spine. I have often wondered if the Doctors at that time knew anything about electric impulse; resusitation or pumping the chest up and down to force air into the lungs; It is most like that they just stood there without any effort and watched the "dead" patient. After the public was better informed; tension lessened and they seem to understand that regardless of the Doctor's degree he was also human and to error is human and it was commendable to forgive and forget. Dr. Musser's age was difficult to determine because he dyed his hair although it had turned green; as a matter of fact it was the first person I had ever seen with green hair. His age could have been any where from 35 to 50 but his nurse was about my age and I am quite sure they had something goin He treated a long scratch on my wrist from a kid's finger nails that would no