The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-12-05
AS YOU LIKE 1T.
How the Doctor Diagnosed Case and
the Result.

the same person" remarked tho phil-
osophical trainer oracularly. .'b,s
they seldom nre. II you whine us
the dogs do when their feet hurt after
hunt-or II Won limp or com ,lain. l.
doctor guesses what Is tho matter with
you. Then he guesses what will cure
you II both guesses are right you
are In luck. and he Is u skillful doctor.
In nine cases out OF ten he is giving
you something harmless while he. Is
taking second and third look ut you
lat your expense. OF course) 10 guess
over after himself"
His medical pcssimism and his surg
ical optimism amused and entertained
me. says q writer In Harpers Maya
zine. and encouraged him to 60 on.
Nov with surgeon it is different.
Surgery Is an exact science. Before I
took this position l was surgeons
assistant in hospital. In some places
we are called trained nurses. In our
place we werc called surgeons assist
ants. That's why / make such dis
tinction between doctors and surgeons.
I've seen the two work side by side so
long. I've seen some OF the funniest
mistakes made. and I've seen mistakes
that were not funny. I've seen post
norton examinations that would
have made surgeon ashamed
that no had ever been born,
looked upon by the doctor who
treated the case as not at all stranger
didn't stagger him bit in his own
opinion Of himself and his scientific
knowledge next time. 1 remember
one case. 1t was n Japanese boy. He
was as solid as u little OK, but he told
Dr. c.. that he'd been taking a
homeopathic prescription for u cold.
That was enough for DIR. c.. A
red rag in the van OF bovine animal
is nothing to the word HON npathic'
to DR. c.. Hydropathy gives him
fits, and electicism almost lays him
out. Not long ago he sat on jury
which sent a man to prison who had
failed In case OF mind cure. That.
gave deep delight to his regular soul.
Well DR.. O. questioned the little
Jap. who could not speak good Eng
lish. and had the national inclination
to agree with whatever you say. Ever
been to Japan? Mop Well. they arc
II droll lot. Always strive TO agree
with all you say or suggest.
"'Did you ever spit blood" asked
DIR. c.. by-and-by. after he could
find nothing else wrong except the lit
tie cold for which the HON Ipathic
physician was treating the boy.
Once. replied that youthful VIC
tim.
'"Aha! we are getting ut the root
OF this matter now said DIR. C..
Now tell me truly. Be careful Did
you spit much blood?'
"Yes, sir; good deal
The doctor sniffod. He always
knew that a HON ppathic humbug
could not diagnose case and would
be likely to get just about as near the
facts as light cold would come to tn
berculosis.
'''How long did this laste' he inquir-
! ed OF the smiling boy.
a. i think--it seem to mo-
"a half hour?" queried the doctor;
twenty minutcS!
~ think so. Yes, sir About half
an hour-twenty minutes. responded
the obliging youth.
Il heard that talk. Common. sense
told me the boys lungs were all right;
but it was none OF my business, and
so watched him treated. of and on
for lung trouble for over month be-
fore / got chance TO ask him any
questions. Then l asked, incident
ally:
"'What made you spit that blood
that time, Chip
:" i didn't know l ought to swallow
him.. he replied. wild-eyed and anx-
ious. Dentist pull tooth. He say to
me. Spit blood here" do like he
tell me. Your doctor say YER bad for
lungs, spit blood. Next time i swal-
low him.
Il helped another practitioner in
good and regular standing. TO examine
mans heart He found pretty bad
wheeze in the left side. had TO nurse
that man. He had been on bat and
all on earth that allied him was that
SPREE but he got treated for heart
trouble. 1t scared the man almost to
death.
I'D learned how heart should
sound. so one day tried his. He was
in bed then, and IL sounded all right,
so when the doctor came in. took
him aside. and told him that / didn't
want to interfere. but that man was
scared about to death over his heart,
and it seemed to me 1t was all right
sounded like other hearts-and his
Pulse was all right too. The doctor
was mad as March hare. though he
had told me TO make two or three
tests, and keep the record for him
against the timc OF his next visit.
Well, to make n long story short, the
final discovery was--the man don't
know it yet and he is going around in
dread OF dropping of at any minute
with heart failure--that at the first
examination the man had removed
only his coat and vest, and his new
suspepder on his starched shirt had
made tho squeak. That Is cold fact
and the man paid over eighty dollars
for the treatment he had for his