Doctor Lucius Peabody

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Doctor Lucius Peabody
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Peabody, Doctor Lucius
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Upper Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Professional
Specific Job: 
Physician
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Doctor Peabody is the local doctor, a recurring figure in the Yoknapatawpha novels and stories. In this novel, Ab sends Ratliff to him to purchase "a bottle of whiskey" (44). (Because Mississippi was a 'dry' state until 1966, doctors - who were allowed to prescribe alcohol for medicinal purporses and so often kept a supply on hand - were sometimes used as a source for it.)

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