Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-02-15
MissfIiausnas.
parkinson,s case.
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49, al.ss
By MAX ADELER.

fFrom the washington Capital.l
Parkinson is not as earnest an adj
vocate of the devotion of women to the
study ofmedicine as he was.. His opin-
ions have undergone change. Park
insonss views OF the subject have been
modified, as itwere, by some very in
teresting personal experience of the
consequences OF the enthusiastic applica-
ton of woman (whom we here take oc-
casion to pronounce Heavens first gift
to MANI to the practical details of the
science. Parkinson married a blue
eyed and Beautiful being, who had
come triumphantly through course of
instruction IN bones with q calm and
serene confidence in her ability to in
dulge iudieiously in. the despensation
of squills to the afflicted. She touched
the heart of Parkinson by exciting activ-
ity in his liver; and he demanded her
her hand because he mad observed its
.dexterity and steadiness when it re-
moved a caFbunele from the Shoulder
Of his aunt. HeIOved her for the blis-
tiers she had spread; and when she ac-
cepted professorship in the Woman's
Medical College he felt secret joy as
he reflected thatat last she could in
pensity for cutting up remains.
But all that is changed now. That
dream of ParEdnson's concerning am
putated legs, and billiousness, and such
pleasures is ssipated-rudely disSipa-
ted by the unfeeling conduct of his
wife.
He had a habit of lying on the sofa
in the eveEng for the purpose oftaking
I1a
awoke until midnight, and then he al
ways noticed that there was a certain
feeling of heaviness in his head and a
queer smell of drugs in the room.
When he questioned Mrs. Parkinson
about it, that being with a cerculean
eyes invariably colored and look con-
fused, and said he must have eaten
something which disagreed with him
Ultimately the suspicious of Parkinson
were aroused. He suspected something
wrong. A horrible thought crossed his
mind thatMrS. Parkinson intended Il
poison him for his skelet0n--to sacri
fee him so that she could dangle hi;
bones on string before her class, anC
explain TO the seekers after medica
truth the peculiarities of construction
which enabled the framework Of Park
inson 20 move around in society.
$50 Parkinson revealed his suspi
cions to his brother and engaged hin
to secret himself in closet in the room
while he took his usual nap one evening
upon the sofa.
When that night arrived Mrs. Park
inson pretended to have the 'tsewin,
circle'' from the church up in the parloI
whileher husband~ent to sleep in th
sitting-room withthez vigilanJ reIati
of his ON guard. About nine o'cIoc
Mr.. Parkinson's brother was surprise
to observe Mrs. Parkinson softly steal
ing up stairs, with the members of tn
'ssewing circlen following her noiseles:
ly in single file. In her hand Mr.:
!. Parkinson carried q volume which be
brother-in-law thought might possibl
contain the tender strains of som
sweet singer in whose rythmical ser
tences and amid whose glowing image
ry this lovely being Teveled with a
the ecstacy of a sensitive and poetic ns
ture. But her brother-in-law wa
wrong, for the book was intitle
Thompson on Rhematism;n Will
those lines, traced in delicate femaI
hand upon the perfumed note paper an
carried by Mrs. Parkinson, so far froy
embodying the gentle expression of tn
most sacred emotions of her woman
heart, were merely the diagnosis of a
aggravated case of fatty degenerate
of the heart.
When the whole party had entere
the room, Mrs. Parkinson closed tf
door and applied chloroform to her hu
bands nose. As soon as he becanl
completely insensibIe, the sewing
the hands of the ladies was quickly lai
aside, and to Parkinson,s secrete
brother disclosed the alarmin
fact that this was a class ofstuden
from the college.
The professor began her lecture vii
some very able and interesting renarl
upon the nervous system, and in ord,
todemonstrate her meaning more plail
ly she attached galvnaic battery
Parkinson's tOeso that she InightmaE
him wiggle before the class. And |
did wiggle. That professor with ii
azure orbs gave him about eightee
terrific shocks and poked him in Il
ribs with a ruler 10 make him jun
a-ound, while the students stood in
Tsemi-circle, with notebooks in han
and exclaimed, show very interes
ingin
Parkinson's brother thought it awfr
but he was afraid to come out when j
reflected that they might want d
skeletons up at that college.
Mrs. Parkinson then said that 81
would pursue this branch of the inyes
igation no further at that moment. b
cause Mr.. Parkinson's system WI