Octavia Butler Quote

He didn't look all right to me. Has anyone gone for the doctor?
Marse Tom don't hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding and blistering and purging and puking and making folks sicker than they was to start.

Chapter 5, The Storm section 3 (p. 202) - Kindred (1979)

He didn't look all right to me. Has anyone gone for the doctor? Marse Tom don't hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding...

He didn't look all right to me. Has anyone gone for the doctor? Marse Tom don't hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding...

He didn't look all right to me. Has anyone gone for the doctor? Marse Tom don't hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding...

He didn't look all right to me. Has anyone gone for the doctor? Marse Tom don't hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding...