.... story from Bosworth, this time about a patient of my grandfather’s, Dr.
John Waddington Hubbard, the husband of Emma Evans.
All the country people at that time were extremely poor and ignorant, and their
descriptions of their symptoms must have been very confusing, An old woman came
to my grandfather asking him to come and see her husband who was suffering from
"a rising of the lights”. My grandfather could not go immediately, but did so as
soon as he could. When he got to the cottage the old woman met him saying that
her husband was much better, she had given him what he had asked for, and it had
done him a power of good. On my grandfather’s inquiring as to what it was that
she had given the patient, he was informed that he had swallowed half a pound of
buckshot, and it had settled his lights something wonderful, Once again history
does not record the closing phase of the incident.
Frances Ann Roper (née HUBBARD) does not write much about the Hubbard family as such. She always used to say they were 'dreadfully dull and boring.' She was far happier with the Evans/Dickinson/Phelps side and her mother's family the Vizards/Foleys.
I hope to redress this!