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places. At one of the turns of the road there was [[underlined in red]] a motor car which had been thrown in the ditch. [[/underlined in red]] Two women were being carried away [[strikethrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] in a small [[strikethrough]] hos [[/strikethrough]] one horse buggy. Several men stood around the ditched motor car. One of them in Canadian French, the proprietor of the car, asked me to assist him. I soon saw that the car could [[underlined in red]] not be pulled [[/underlined in red]] out of the ditch. [[underlined in red]] by merely tying [[/underlined in red]] it to mine. but I offered him [[underlined in red]] to go to Berthier to fetch help. [[/underlined in red]] He accepted my offer and joined me in my car. [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] His card read: [[underlined in red]] Le Docteur N. A. Lirois [[/underlined in red]] from Sainte Anne de la Pocatière, which is characteristically French Canadian. Did not impress me much [[underlined in red]] as a physician, [[/underlined in red]] his talk was voluminous and ^[[indirect]] rather low mentality. He said he had
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started "une fameuse medicine patentée" and. "Bientot vous entendrez parler de moi". He urged me to join him to the physician in [[underlined in red]] Berthier [[/underlined in red]] where his wife and daughter had been sent. She had a [[underlined in red]] dislocated shoulder [[/underlined in red]] and chloroform had to be given to reset it, and I was asked to assist. The physician took off his right shoe then put his stockinged foot under the arm of the woman, then pulled of all his might [[underlined in red]] until we had the peculiar sound which indicated [[/underlined in red]] that the arm was again in [[underlined in red]] its articulation. [[/underlined in red]] After that I sped on but I had lost two hours with all this. At about 5 P.M arrived at Trois-Rivières, quite a bustling town, well paved, many new stores and new buildings; seems quite prosperous. There is a hotel

Transcription Notes:
Berthier was located between the north suburbs of Montreal and Trois-Rivi?es. Sainte Anne de la Pocati?e is a parish in Qu?ec. "une fameuse medicine patent?" and "Bientot vous entendrez parler de moi" can be translated: "a famous patent medicine" and "Soon you will hear from me"