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no better proof is required than that as you are aware
the poor fellow [died?] of his disease / Inflammation of the Lungs.
As to my charge for travelling being too high, you may ask
any medical man in Halifax, if they would perform
the same services cheaper, taking into account the state
of the travelling. Dr. Webster says that the Committee
thought I "charged too little for medicine". I of course
should find no fault with them for this, only if they thought
I charged too little, they ought in justice to have given me
more.

The other charge in the Afc is for a visit "to Lewis Tom
and dressing badly cut leg 40/_". Now the time I had
called on to see him was immediately after a very heavy
snowstorm, (another medical man having previously refused to visit
him at all on account of the travelling I presume). His
camp was in the woods on Frasers Mountain between the
old & new Merigomish roads, somewhat on the New Glasgow
side of "Farmer McLean's". The road up the mountain
was altogether impassable from snow-drifts. I had
to go down the little Harbor road and up Andrew Marshalls
firewood road to his house, then through the fields and
snow-drifts as best I could, until I got to "Farmer McLeans"
where I left my horse, and then travelled on foot for better
than a mile through the woods, having no track before
me, and the snow between 3 or 4 feet deep, to his camp.
Now, if Dr. Webster or any other Medical Gentleman
will perform that amount of travelling through the
snow, [take?] up and tie the "Anterior Tibial Artery"
which the poor fellow had cut, then I am satisfied. The
fact is Medical men in larger cities would charge more
than 40/_ for taking up and tying the Artery itself, which
is often an operation of no little difficulty and requiring a
considerable amount of professional knowledge. I think
this