American Western lore has spawned many stereotypical depictions of men and women in various professions ranging from sheriffs to prostitutes to men of medicine. None is more poignant than the sometimes humorous and always pitiful image of the hard drinking medical or dental practitioner. Three major examples come to mind, two involving the famous dentist-turned-gambler and gunfighter John Henry Holliday. The first, an early cinematic depiction of the consumptive, explosive and erratically
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