Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-01-26

done good service. Dressings were sp-
piled, repeated and repeated again, but
still the sick man lay in stupor. "1t
has done no good; hadn't we better
send for the doctor?" seggested the
wife.
Just then the eyes of H opened,
and he looked with half stupid surprise
from face to face of the anxious group
that surrounded the bed. ''What in
the mischief is the matter?" be al
length said. At the same time, feeling
strange sensation about his head, he
placed bis hand rather heavily thereon.
"Heavens and earthl' he was now
fully in his senses. "Hesvens and
earth, what ails my head?" "Fo,
mercy's sake keep quiet" said the wife,
the glad tears gushing over her face
"You have been very i'll; there, there
nowl" and she spoke soothingly, "don't
say word, but lie very still" "But
my headp' whats the mater with
my head? 1t feels as if scalded.-
Where's my hair! Heavens and earth
Sarah, dent understand this. And
my arm, what's my arm tied up in this
way for?" "Be quiet, my dear hus-
band, and I'll explain it all. Oh, be
very quiet; your life depends upon it."
Mr.. H sank back upon the pill
low from which he had risen, and closed
his eyes to think. He put his hand to
his head and felt it tenderly all over,
from temple to temple, and from nape
to forehead.
"Is it blister?" he at length asked.
eyes, dear; you have been very i'll; we
feared for your life," said Mrs. H,
affectionately; "there have been two
physicians in attendance"
H closed his eyes again; his lips
moved. Those nearest were not much
edited by the whispered words that
issued therefrom. They would have
sounded very strangely in church, or
to ears polite and refined. After this
he lay for some time quiet. "Threat-
ened with apoplexy, 1 supposed" he
said interrogatively. eyes, DEAR" re-
piled his wife. 81 found you lying
insensible upon the floor, on happening
to come into your room. 1t was most
providential that l discovered you when
l did, or you would certainly have
died."
H shut his eyes and muttered
something with an air of impatience;
but its meaning was not understood
Finding him out of danger, friends and
relatives retired, and the sick man was
left alone with his family.
"Sarah," he said. "why in the name
of goodness did you permit the doctors
to butcher me up in this way? I'm
laid up for a week or two, and all for
nothing"
at was to save your life, dear"
"Save the devil"
"H-u-s-h! there, do for mercy's sake
be quiet; every thing depends upon it."
With gesture of impatience H
shut his eyes, teeth, and hands, and lay
perfectly still for some minutes. Then
he turned his face to the wall, muttering
in low petulent voice, "too bad! too
badl"
1 had not erred in my first and last
of HIS disease; neither had
DR.. S., although he used very extra
ordinary mode of treatment.
The facts of the case were these:-
H had weakness; he could not
taste wine nor strong drink without
being tempted into excess. Both him
self and friends were grieved and NOR
tilted at this; and they, by admonition,
and he, by good resolutions, tried to
bring about reform; but to see was to
taste, and to taste was to fall. At last
his friends urged him to shut himself
up at home for certain time, and see
if total abstinence would not give him
strength. He got on pretty well for a
few days, particularly so as his coach
man kept well-illed bottle for him in
the carriage-house, to which he not un-
resorted; but too ardent
devotion to this bottle brought on the
apoplexy. DR.. S. was right
in his mode of treating the disease after
all, and did not err in supposing that it
would reach the pre-disposition. The
cure was efectual.
H kept quiet on the subject,
and bore his shaved head upon his
shoulders with as much philosophy as
he could muster. A wig, after the
sores made by the blister had disap-
peared, concealed the barber's work
until his own hair grew again. He
never ventured upon wine or brandy
again for fear of apoplexy. When the
truth leaked out, as leak out such things
always will, the friends of H had
many hearty laugh; but they wisely
concealed from the object of their mer-
riment the fact that they knew anything
more than appeared of the cause of his
illness.
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