Hey, this is Aunt Bea writing to you from my Mayberry kitchen. It's December 26, 1966, Season 7, episode 201, called New Doctor in Town. Episode plot summary: "Nobody in Mayberry wants to be the first to see if the town's new doctor is qualified, until Andy shows his faith in the young doctor by letting him remove Opie's tonsils."
* The doctor is played by William Christopher who later played Father Mulcahy on the television version of M*A*S*H."
No, wait. "Until Bethie shows her faith by letting the young doctor feed Magic-Cure Tarwater Tonic to her husband to cure his SPIDER bite."
What? There are entire law firms devoted solely to taking cases where doctors failed to correctly diagnose a THROMBOSIS?
Well, you get my drift.
The blood clot or infected vein--ooops, I mean the alleged spider bite (which, even under my magnifying glass, shows NO bite holes or red spot or central mark or NUTHIN), is still there. Swollen, red, hard.
But it hurts less. I think that's because he took the (I'm sorry I'm being so facetious, but I just can't believe the way this all went down) ANTIBIOTICS the doctor prescribed for the SPIDER BITE.
[Note to the reader: Antibiotics have no effect on basic spider bites.]
Well, he's better, a little, and we're watching it, so all is well for now. Except the twelve degrees outside and wind gusts of 80 MILES PER HOURS that we had all night long.
Love to all.
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