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thers, Dr. Snead never used a horse for house calls. “He would buy a Ford or Chevy and wear it out every year or two,” Judge Snead said. “The country roads were really rough on cars.”
Everyone agrees that one of the most demanding parts of Dr. Snead’s early practice was the home delivery of babies. Judge Snead tells of one delivery in a home without electricity. The mother of the woman having the baby was there to assist, holding up a coal oU lamp to provide light. “It was a difficult delivery,” Judge Snead reported, “and John had to use forceps. The mother fainted and fell on the bed, setting the bed on fire. They had to stop the delivery to put the fire out, but the baby was safely delivered.”
Dr. Snead’s daughter Betty Lindsey recalls a much easier delivery. When her father arrived the woman he had assumed was his patient was sitting on the porch in a rocking chair smoking a pipe. She told him she didn’t need a doctor to deliver her baby, she had delivered him by herself, like all her other babies. She added, “But I understand he needs draps in his eyes, so go in and put in draps.” The baby got his eyedrops and was fine, Mrs. Lindsey said.
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