the liver, the stomach, the lungs, the heart, and the brain. “If you don’t believe me, just look at old Mary Lou here.”
“She’s never been sick a day in her life.” He also had many different ointments, lotions, syrups, and pastes
all made out of onion juice and different parts of the onion plant.
This one cured asthma. That one was for warts and pimples. Another was a remedy for arthritis.
He even had a special ointment which he claimed would cure baldness.
“Just rub it on your husband’s head every night when he’s sleeping, Mrs. Collingwood,
and soon his hair will be as thick and as long as Mary Lou’s tail.”
Doc Hawthorn did not resent Sam. The folks of Green Lake were afraid to take chances.
They would get regular medicine from Doc Hawthorn and onion concoctions from Sam.
After they got over their illness, no one could be sure, not even Doc Hawthorn, which of the two treatments had done the trick.
Doc Hawthorn was almost completely bald, and in the morning his head often smelled like onions.
Whenever Katherine Barlow bought onions, she always bought an extra one or two and would let Mary Lou eat them out of her hand.
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