When Dr. M. returned, the child was asleep in a light perspiration, without a suspicion of fever. "You did what I told you?" he asked, assured by the child's condition. "No, sir; we did what --- --- told us." "Then --- --- knows more of the treatment of fevers than I do," said the physician, withdrawing.
A physician was called in to see a sick child; before he left the house, having prescribed, he saw the oldest girl going across the fields towards the house of the conjur-man; next day the infant was better; the course of its progress being exactly in line with the physician's medicament; The doctor shook his head with a rueful smile: "I shall not get any credit," he said. "The spell of the conjur-doctor healed the child." I found this to be the verdict of the settlement.
After the doctor regular has attended the sick man and left medicine and advice, off go the relatives to
consult the witch-doctor. He prescribes, works a spell; if the man recovers he gets the glory; if he grows worse
the doctor physician is blamed for interference...had he not taken the medicine of the white doctor instead of
the medicine of the conjur-doctor, he would have got well; but he took the white man's medicine, and the drugs
of the witch-doctor were inoperative, this voiding their virtues.
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