A young doctor settles in a small but healthy town. No patients. He hires a "tough guy" to scatter banana peels throughout the neighborhood. This brings comedy and patients.
An unscrupulous doctor tries to drum up business by having the sidewalk in front of his house covered with banana skins, inviting slip-and-fall injuries. Guess you couldn't get sued for that in 1913. Later, he mistakenly gives a patient some poison for medicine, causing her father to blackjack the quack.—WesternOne