On his way to a patient, one day in 1914, Dr. James Thomas Clack, country doctor of Wadley, Ala. (pop. 527), saw swirling red spots before his eyes. When he got to his call, he found he could not even read his thermometer. Realizing that he was losing his sight, he groped his way home, decided that retinal hemorrhages were ending his career.
But his patients did not agree. Neither did his wife. On his next call she went with him, examined the patient's symptoms as he diagnosed them. When a wound needed stitching, Mrs. Clack went at it like a...
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