My Mouth was Just Raw

Well the biggest thing was diphtheria. The doctor we had with us, like the guys that died with it, he tried to make a serum and innoculate the other guys with. I don’t know any medical, I don’t know the medical terms or anything but he was a very smart doctor. I had beri-beri and pellagra, but I didn’t have dysentery. Pellagra it causes sores, my mouth was just raw. And finally this doctor, he got hold of some garlic, and that cured the mouth, the rawness in your mouth. Cause you couldn’t hardly stand even to eat your rice, your mouth was just raw. I’ll tell you something that I had to go through. Like, I was never circumcised when I was a kid. And I was, beri-beri so bad that well my foreskin’s... so I couldn’t urinate. So he got four guys to sit on me and he cut my foreskin off, and it was a dull knife, I’ll tell you. And then I had nine teeth pulled without anaesthetic also, by him. And I, I don’t know, I broke out with boils, had lots of boils. But they wouldn’t let you stay sick, you had to keep working. Unless you were so sick you couldn’t walk. They had a hospital there, but you didn’t go to the hospital very often.