guerissant: More and more often I went alone when some stranger appeared suddenly in the dooryard, a

guerissant:

More and more often I went alone when some stranger appeared suddenly in the dooryard, asking for healer or midwife. Daniel Rawlings’s casebook began to acquire new entries, and the larder was enriched by the gifts of hams and venison haunches, bags of grain and bushels of apples, with which my patients repaid my attentions. I NEVER ASKED FOR PAYMENT, but something was always offered.