She collected and disseminated medicinal herbs and personal gossip.

She was in every regard indispensable to the intellectual life of the neighborhood.

In the matter of her medical skill we cannot express an opinion, for her "yarbs" are not to be found in the pharmacopoeia of science.
What took Ralph's breath was to find Dr.Small's fine, faultless horse standing at the door.

What did Henry Small want to visit this old quack for?
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