Who knows the number of times that pioneers, cowboys, military men and others in the Old West suffered from afflictions of one sort or another that were untreatable for various reasons? A tragedy, not uncommon in the Old West, occurred when both the availability and the advancements in medical or surgical care were absent. With intolerable suffering, an afflicted person probably searched in vain for treatment, hung on until the bitter end or even took his own life. The most interesting cinema
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