Avram Davidson - Blunt

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AVRAM DAVIDSON

BLUNT

Recent books of Mr. Davidsoh's include The Boss in the Wall and the upcoming

collections The Avram Davidson Treasury and The Investigations of Avram

Davidson.

HE HAD THE USUAL MOUNTAIN boyhood in one of those mountainous counties below the

Mason-Dixon line -differing from most other such counties only in being one of

the few that regularly voted Republican -- where there was not much schooling;

but somewhere in the course of what schooling there was, Huey P. Blunt read a

piece about yellow fever and the Panama Canal and how one was conquered so the

other could be built, and he decided to be an Army doctor. Someone {in after

years he tried to remember who first told him, but so many people had agreed and

repeated it and everyone took it for granted it was correct} told him that the

way to do it was to enlist soon's he was old enough and work his way up. Blunt

wasn't talkative and he was six months in the Army before anyone there knew of

his plans, and before he learned what they were worth. What they were worth

officially, that is. He made them worth something, after all, by an illegal

conversion of knowledge. He listened, he watched, he read, he worked; and he

learned much. The Army Medical Corps taught him more than it planned to. Blunt

had deft hands and a good memory.

After his enlistment expired he went back to the hills, to his home country.

There was a very old man practicing medicine there, his name was Elnathan

Wisonant, and he had never been to college either, having picked up all his

knowledge of medicine as apprentice to his father, a "doctor" of similar status.

At one time there were many practitioners of that kind around-- it would not be

accurate or fair to call them quacks -they represented an older tradition in

native medicine than the A.M.A. -they supplied the only"care available at a time

when medical schools were few, and not too well thought of, either. Gradually

they became extinct. For the last forty years o[ his career old Wisonant had

been protected by a state law that exempted all those in the trade at the time

the law was passed from having to meet the qualifications required thereafter.

Blunt became his assistant, which meant that he very shortly took over most of

the hard work while old Wisonant sat by watching and advising, and speaking ill

of "college doctors."

"Horse-leeches," he called them; "bumshavers, quacksalvers, peddlers of snake

oil and pink aspirin.

"A trust, a vile and contemptible monopoly, a guild of grave robbers aping their

betters among the natural philosophers," he would snarl.

One morning the old phlebotomist was found on the floor of his office, white

beard pointing to the ceiling. Although urged by the hill people to carry on and

the hell with them city doctors and their laws, Blunt declined. Roads were

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