Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-22
A NAN WITH A BAD LIVER.

There lives upon the river Sioux man
whose liver 10 out Of order. The case Is
becoming chronic one, and the bile which
that wofully diseased organ falls to secrete
10 beginning to smell bad in the nostrils of
his neighbors. The effluvia has reached
this portion of the country, and those who
hsye to breathe the obnoxious atmosphere
earnestly hope that the patients stomach
may yet be got into condition where 1t
will retain few healing doses. to tho end
that the ailmsnt may be dissipated and Q
healthy condition of the internal functions
induced. A consultation of doctors was
held week or 20 ago, and BY their order .
pill was administered to the patient. 1t
was skillfully compounded. the best results
Of perfect eciencs being considered before
its ingredients, and the proportion of one
to the other, were decided upon. Much
labor and time had been devoted to its con-
struction, and when completed, it was con.
sidered very perfect sort Of . pill. and one
which, il permitted to operate, would not
fail to work havoc with tho horrible disor-
der with which this sufferer from the Sioux
is afflicted. As the sick man is troubled
with bad taste in his mouth, it was De.
cided to sugar-coat the morsel. This was .
happy thought, ~ the saccharine covering
enabled the patient to place himself outside
the dose without any of those mental and
muscular contortions and convulsions
which the school of learned pby-
siciaus had feared would ensue.
There was no visible change for the
worse after the dose was administered, .
seemingly happy calm and tranquility ex-
listing in the region lwhere the specific had
found lodgment. The council of dsctors
agreed that no risk would be incurred from
days stage journey, and the subject of
their scientific meditations was carefully
shipped to his home on the Sioux. But
either the jolting Of the stage over the rough
hubs Of the road or the violent opposition
of his system to the introduction of 20 for
eign substance induced stomachic friction
which deprived the pill Of its sweet favored
coating. The soothing effect of the COM
pound was gone and the doctors were sixty
miles away. A violent revulsion ensued
and when it was over the poor stomach Of
the sick man had elected the pill and the
saving work Of the faculty ended in the com.
plets failure Of 6zz and . sputter as the
specific came up. The liver Of the unfor-
tuns:e man has since been growing worse
instead Of better. His system turns out
more bile than it did before and the sscre.
tive organ has utterly failed to perform it,
duty. The old morbid mental
condition aff1icts the patient.
He is all sensitiveness, and imag.
ines that the eyes of every one are upon him
and that the universal finger Of derision i,
leveled at him because he took the pill pre-
scribed BY he.-doctors. He sometimes feels
glad that he threw it up, but with the hap
py sensation is mingled its antidote, keer
grief, that there are no more pills for iii
stomach to reject 1t makes no di8erenc.
that his friends tell him that his liver car
never be cured BY such fragrant violation.
of the fixed laws Of nature. His system
must absorb these specifics, they must pen..
trate his whole being, must be carried to the
uttermost ends Of his organization through
thechannels Of the veins, if he would recover
His morbid mental and physical condition
renders him the prey Of all sorts of halluci.
nations, chiefest of which is the idea ths,
mans mission here on earth is to be in ,
continuous controversy with some othe,
man or men. In his natural, healthy con.
dition he possesses none of these unhappy
peculiarities, but his disease has changed his
entire nature and he and his liver are ar.
rayed against the whole wsrld. We pity
this nick man on the Sioux and hope, most
ardently, that he may yet be rescued from
the horrors which are daily thickeninr
about him.