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Doc Holliday Doc Holliday John Henry Holliday (a.k.a. Doc) was one of the most famous gunfighters of his time. He over came many tragedies throughout his life, many tragedies people today would not be able to cope with. Born August 14, 1851 to Alice and Henry Holliday, John Henry Holliday entered the world already at a disadvantage with a serious birth defect. The defect known as a cleft palate and a partially cleft lip basically made suckling his mother’s breast impossible. Dr. John S. Holliday, John’s uncle and an accomplished surgeon, delivered John, cleared his air passages, and taught his mother the proper way to feed the him due to the defect. With out the aid and instructions of Dr. Holliday, John could have easily choked to death as was common with children that had this genetic defect. Ironically one of the tools to feed the young child effectively was a shot glass, which in many ways never left his side. At only eight weeks old John was under the careful care of his uncle once again. Dr. John Holliday, along with family friend Dr. Crawford Long, operated on John’s mouth and lip with success. This was only the beginning of doc, john, holliday, time, earp, wyatt, henry, uncle, after, life, dr, dental, out, john’s, griffin, found, one, health, due, doc’s, became, yet, father, back, again, while, town, quickly, playing, men, left, kate, headed, although, shot, robert