est parts of the islands.

Many rough places were smoothed by Mr. W.G. Hinson, of James Island, who
did much to lighten the work of the Red Cross representatives in his
locality, and it is always a pleasure to look back upon his efforts to
help the people in their affliction.

One of the great evils existing upon the islands is the charlatanism
practiced upon the ignorant.

"Traveling doctors," who never saw a materia medica, infest the country
and sell every imaginable cure, as well as cures which are not
imaginable.

Removing lizards, toads and various other things from various parts of
the body is one form and perhaps the highest type of medical fraud. The
"doctor" will declare the patient "conjured," and at once contract to
remove the offending spirit, the usual fee being five dollars; in 90 per
cent of such cases, he takes a lien on a cow, horse, or pig, and
finally, by foreclosure, gets the animal, for by the present unjust
system of trial justices, almost any verdict may be rendered.

I was asked to see a case one evening which was described to be a sore
arm. It was four miles distant, but the husband of the patient had
driven over for me because "de pain is powerful bad, sir."

I found the woman sitting in a chair, her right arm resting on a barrel
that had been rolled in for the occasion, an immense poultice of bread,
meal, feathers and numerous other ingredients wrapped around the arm,
the whole weighing about three pounds. As I lifted the cloth I found a
mass of the ordinary ground worms dead upon the surface. With a cry of
pleasure, the couple said, "Dat 'em! Dat 'em! He tole us dat arm full of
worm and sho' 'nuf he come out."

Could anything appeal more piteously; could it be more pathetic? Think,
at our very doors exists such barbarity, while each year thousands upon
thousands of dollars go as many miles to help a people far beyond some
of the people of our own country.

I removed the poultice, washed the arm, and found a compound
communicated fracture of both bones of the forearm.

Who could stand 