Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-01-15
Erom lie llone Journal,
What tho Doctor has TO say:


Where you ever ill-srnuusly, dangerously IN
mean you, dear reader Of the Home JOmnli.-
Was there ever O time when You thought at first
TINT yo had taken cOll-and then, ihnlIlIe couch
would be more comfortable Than The aimed chair,
aud the little llaiteiS which, ii nofnns; you said
must he attended 10 to-day, you concluded 10 let
pass until lulnOrf0wi a strange anI altogether
new sensation had taken possession OF yoI--cUld,
like ants, cam. creeping over you; perhaps the
head grew dizzy, The eyes were weak, aud warm
drinks were grateful. By.alld by there was q
q clangc-a glowing warmth petvaIird the Sys'en;
you throw back The covering ani say y0n ME bet,
ter nov, aud attempted 10 Use, When O sickeng
sense Of dispair came over you-tliings around
yousrew illdlSlinct, aud you lell back upon your
COUCH TO become unconscious for time end then
awake as lfom uneasy sleep, aud lind yOnlsel lLir'
" in bed aud to be told that The doctor was ca.
peclcd S0Un
What change has come over you now! The
ioctot-tlc man Of I,aisrati"g stuilS-you begin
10 ngad IN guile different light; even his met.
cineS, you llld, ate moi near us bad Us you had
supposed them 10 b.. But time goes On, AMI yOu
grow more and mote III. llpw soon yOn have
learned 10 Distinguish tho sound Of The doctors
coming, MS he dives up 10 yOmt door, rom the
thousand o,htts that 20 rollons ly; even the ing
at the doot. bell II you chance 10 br where yo,l
can hear II, you SOM kiow,-aid his footsteps you
easily recognise.
There is hrelbing cheering IN The tuctoIS pies.
ence nov, aud you wonder that you never dlscov.
rted il before, yOu look more clet tful, aud you
cl lin That you ieel much bellet than you did a
little while ago. lie puts the tips Of his fingers
on yOut wrist, mud looks al Ills watch, aud counts
the Uraiins VI your hca,l liz suiooils the lIaIr
upOn yuut forehead, aud you think ke dots 1t pei.
inyly, while he asctf;alils whether there IL too
mutl heat ~ your head. lie does tt 81 aud 9Th.
" things 50 gently, that you think the doctor must
lave ctaill edj that lie has become nilder alld
Il Letter man IN mind But no! II is YOU tint have
sadly nnll softowlul!y changed, fol the w0lse, IN
holy; You are very III.
Time goes on. What his lccoIlc Of That indie.
drndence IN spl,i which brayll eyefyhns'--
that suli.reliuncu Mhich gave y0n dignity, aud
carried you eject III The Image VI the GJd allct
IS hun you were fonmtdi Where are those am.
bilious plans uyet which you had lie incialed
long and cafclullyl ,luSe duties yon had deict.
mined 10 attend ,Oi the Ilin4s yui had said must
BE- done! Like you, bodily Ind mentally, they
ulcnll lying prJsfdtc- fallen to the cafe Ut other
lmLdsl
II IS sad thing 10 see sifong mnl OF proud
woman stricken Iowa, u hc lifted about AMI liur.
sed Us Il weak child; but "le wind IS tempered
10 the sllofiI lamb, aud We fud il .aShI than we
snppUSe 10 Geht what, it0in olr nattlfe, must De
endured, Sucn SceueS as these ate most common
to the phY cian's eye; aud, although liz may bear
II Tough exterior, they soften his heat. Bat we
5, ldoM discover II until we SEE nai nj our own
SICK led side.
InE DucO1R.