The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1817-10-29
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From DC. Ewells Medical Companion.
aYpocHoNDRIc DISEASE,

ssM"9"sy eoHeo PdFoTs V <sow orfrHs.
This complaint chiefly occurs in the male,
sad that at advanced life and il is con.iaed
for the most partte persons Of sendea,a,y
or studaus disposition especially ,uch ss
have indulged grief or anxiety.
Some Hypochondriscs have fspcied them
selves miserably afflicted 10 Que way, snd
some In snulhef---somc have insisted the,
they wesc TEA Pors, and some that they
were TOWN cLocKs--This, that he had
b,g belly, add tnst, had glass icss--one, thar
he was extremely ill, and soolher that he
wrs actually dying. But have never heard
OF sny of this blue Devil. class, whose ex-
travsgsnce ever yct came up the following,
which. was related TO inc ty my noble heart
cd old FREUD, the late Dr., Stevenson, of Bal
'imofe, whose very nams always sounds ia
my sats, as she summary Of every maaIy vir-
tue.
This Hypochonriac, who, by tho bye, was
patient of Dr.. Stevenson, alter ringing tho
cnaugS on every mad sonceit that ever tor.
mentsd a crazy brain, would have it at iss,
that he was dead, actually dead. Dr.. Stew.
enson having been sent for one morning in
great haste, by the wife Of his patient, has,en-
ed ta his bed side, where he found him
sttstched out full length, his bands across
his beast, his great toes IN contact, bis eyes
aed mouth closely shut, and his looks endav-
eroas f
"WelI, sir, how do you do how do you
this morning :" asked DR.. Stevenson 10 his
biusl ering, jovial way approaching his bed.
{" How do do J" replied the Hypocho0dfisc
fainrly~-"a pretty question 10 ask dead
man" Dead J" replied tho Doctor.
Yes, sir, dead, quite dead. ! died last
night sbnu, iwelse o'clock"
Qlirh as lightening, Dr.. Stevenson caught
his cue, which was to strike him on the
string Of his character, on which the Doctor
happily reeollscted no was very tender.
Having gently put his hand oo the forehead
Of tho Hypochond,iae, as II to ascertain
whe'hcr IL was colo, and felt his pulse, ho
exclaimed in a doleful note, "Yes, tho poor
msn is dead enough, il is al, over with him,
and nov tho seoacf he can DO buried the bet
ter Thea sleeping up to his wifc ADD
wispc'ing her NOT 10 be frightened at the
mcasnfcs he was about to take, he called to
The servant" My boy, your poor master Is
dSyAs sssd ssh- rfoopsr. he ~uDs6s pnt in the
ground ihc be,ter.---Run To Mr. c---m, FOR I
kaow he always keeps ew-EpciaDd csffios
by him ready made, end do you hear, bIiBg
makes stout corps, and having died last
night, and the weather warm, will SOON begin
| 10 smell"
Awoy went the servant and soon reiuIned
With proper coffin. The wife and family
having got their lesson from tho Doctor,
eathc, ed arouod him, and howicd not li,tie
while they were putting the body in coffin.
Presently tho pail beavers, who were quickly
provided aud t, into the secret, started with
the Hypochond'iac for the church yard.
They bud 40, gone fer, before they were met
by one OF the towo' people. who having been
properly drilled by the fsmsss Stevenson,
crivd out, An, Doctor what poor soul have
you got Ihete!
"Poor Mr.. b." sighed tho Doctor
lef, rs Last n'gh'"
"Grcst pny he had no, left US 20 years
ago" replied the other, for he was bad
Ioon,"
Presently, aoo,ber Of the townsmen met
them with the sane question:" And what
poor soul have you got there, Doctor :"
Poor Mr.. B." answered the Dsstor q.
gain els dead"
Ab, indeed % said the other, " and so the
Devil has got his own at last"
ooh william !" exclaimed the mao In the
colin, I" lfI l was not dead, how l would pay
you for that"
Som afrer this, whilethe pail bearers we're
resting themselves near the church.yard,
another one stepped up with the old ques-
ton again." What poor soul have you got
there, Doctor %
"Poor Me-. b." be replied, ais gone"
"Yos, and 10 h--ll," said the othes, O. fot
IL he is GOT gone there, see not what use
there 10 for such place." Here the dead
man bofaing on the lido the coin, which
had been pofposely leit loose, lesped out, ex-
claimed, Oh, you villain, am gone to h-h,
am I!-WciI, have come back again to pay
such upgratefoI rsscsis 90 you sre." race
was Immediately commenced between the
dead maa an the living, to the petrifying eo"'
s,ernssioo Of corps bursting from the coffio,
in ali the horrors Of the winding sheet, rae.
log through the streets. After having ex-
ercised himself in;o very eopious persprs-
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