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so he asked if it would be all right if he drove the body to the office so Daddy could pronounce him dead. And Daddy agreed, so he came driving up with a corpse sitting up beside him.” A hearse picked the body up, and the man took his truck and went off to work, she reported.
A lot of Dr. Snead’s practice was in the hollows where moonshiners worked and were suspicious of outsiders. Judge Snead reported that one night his brother went to answer a call for someone who had been shot. He went as far as he could in his car and started walking. “A man was standing in the middle of the road with a shotgun trained on him,” Judge Snead said. “He said, ‘If you come any further I’m going to shoot.’John said, ‘Well, shoot away, but I got a call that somebody had been shot up here and I'm going in to treat him.’ The man let him pass.”
Mrs. Lindsey reported that her father also treated the victims of knife fights. One bitter cold night he found his patient lying down with his intestines spilled out and frozen to the ground. “He got them thawed out and cleaned up, put them back in and sewed him up,” she said.
Some of Dr. Snead’s patients didn’t have anything wrong with them. Mary
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