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Doctor in Upper Largo until 1946
My grandfather was the doctor in Upper Largo from 1908 to his death in 1946. All sorts of tales are told about him and about his eldest son. For instance he once sewed the tip of a tongue back on again, and the patient was later to say it was as good as new! And he is also said to have once amputated a leg using whisky as an anaesthetic: "It was wartime, you see?"
As for his son, he was bedridden for a year and a half, and when he was finally able to get up he is said to have used an arrow with a string attached to it in order to snatch a breakfast roll from the open horse-driven cart passing under his window!
Surely there are descendents of neighbours of his whose parents mentioned the above incidents to them. How nice it would be to have them corroborated.
