Junior science refresher magazine
Junior sciencerefresher magazine published this article page no 12 it lay dormant long enough for him to complete his classical education and graduate from dentistry school before symptoms began to appear. after his diagnosis he was told he had a few months perhaps a year to live. he was 20 years old. climate was the only treatment anyone could recommend for tuberculosis in the middle of the 19th century. seeking drier hotter weather doc went west. dying or not he still had to make a living. good dental hygiene however was not a priority for most cowboys so doc decided to try his hand at gambling. some historians have suggested that doc deliberately put himself in harms way over the course of his life out of a desire to die a quick if bloody death rather than waste away as the result of his disease. whether or not this is true he certainly seemed to have the devils luck (good or bad) protecting him. though he was sickly scrawny famously quarrelsome and habitually in a state if of mortal danger he always managed to survive bright group of publications junior science refresher.
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