I don't think he can last long." "What do you know about it?
Let me see him." Well, he saw him and did wonderful things.

That tin box of his was full of medicines and surgical instruments, which latter he boiled before he used them.

Also he washed his hands till I thought the skin would come off them, using up more soap than I could spare.

First he gave poor Charlie a dose of something that seemed to kill him; he said he had that drug from the Kaffirs.

Then he opened up those wounds upon his thigh and cleaned them out and bandaged them with boiled herbs.