Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — Why Doctors Give Poisons. [ARTICLE]

Why Doctors Give Poisons.

There is a small, kilted boy In Harlem who has some advanced ideas that may prove sugggestive to the medical fraternity. He stood in his mamma's sick room one day, looking at the doctor's open medicine erase, with Its fascinating rows of little bottles filled with white pellets, Interspersed with others In more artistic tints of yellow, pink, gray or green. “Don’t give mamma any of zat kind, please,” said Benny finally, pointing to a bottle filled with green tablets. “Why not, my son,” said the doctor. “Because,” promptly replied the child, “they’d poison her.” “And so you think I poison people, do you?” said the now amused physician. “Oh, yes,” said this Infant philosopher, with great cheerfulness; “when people are very sick and can’t get well you give ’em poison an' zey die nice and easy and go straight to Heaven,” and Benny clasped his hands, with an angelic look of rapture expressive of the state of bliss of patients thus summarily disposed of. The doctor retired thoughtfully.