"You know he said we ought to have some in common stock that he could always rely upon in emergencies, and for use after the tule fever.

I didn't agree with him, and told him how I had brought Sam Denver through an attack with quinine and arrowroot, but he laughed and wanted to know if we'd 'resolved' that everybody should hereafter have the Denver constitution.

That's the trouble with those old army surgeons,--they never can get over the 'heroics' of their past.

Why he told Parson Jennings that he'd rather treat a man for jim-jams than one that was dying for want of stimulants.
However, the liquor is here, and one of the things we must settle tomorrow is the question if it ought not to be issued only on Duchesne's prescription.

When I made that point to him squarely, he grinned again, and wanted to know if I calculated to put the same restriction on the sale of patent medicines and drugs generally." "'N powder 'n shot," contributed the indifferent man.
"Perhaps you'd better take a look at the liquor, Saunders," said Parks, dismissing the ethical question.