The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-08
ALL VERY ILL.
a Sudden Epidemic of High Temper;
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The following story is told by one
who youches for its truth:
! DIR. Blank is popular physician in
+ one Of our suburban towns He is
adored by the ladies. and his charges
! TO his fair constituency art not heavy,
| and when he says person is sick there
is no use in denying it. Not long ago
/ prominent business man went home
suffering from severe cold. The next
/ morning he was worse, and his wife
would not let him come to his Office in
/ Boston.
| You must have DR.. Blank" she
( said; "a stitch in time saves nine"
/ The business man sat by the fire
( toasting his shins when the physician
/ arrived.
Lets see your tongue. Any fever?
/ Yes, little. You must go to bed"
DR.. Blank made a rapid diagnosis of his
/ patient ''How's your temperature?
/ What. 125? Why. you are great deal
/ sicker man than you are aware of
Temperature 1a5 degrees indeed. Mrs
A. you must get this man to bed or ne
VIII die"
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man allowed himself to be put to bed.
For ten days he fingered there. feeling,
to be sure. not so very i'll, but with his
temperature at that most dangerous
point The wife meanwhile grew more
and more nervous. Her husband did
not seem very sick He ate well and
slept well; but that temperature. And
the doctor said no one had ever been
known to get well with a emperature
like that.
Finally, without consulting any one,
she sent in town for the old family
physician He was a bluff, hearty old
fellow, never wasting words or mincing
matters. He drove out to A S and went
into the sick room.
Whats the matter? What are you
shut up here for?" was his greeting.
Il don't know, doctor" feebly re-
sponded the business man. 81 am going
to die"
The old physician examined his pulse
and inspected his tongue.
Notrouble. There-you re all right"
he said.
But my temperature, persisted the
sick man. You have't taken my tenn
perature. 1t is 1875"
"A hundred and nothing" bluffly re-
piled the doctor. whipping out his Their
mometer and applying it to his patient.
Your temperature is normal he
said, at last. Get up and dress your
self, and tomorrow go to your Office.
There's been nothing the matter with
you but the cold everyone is having"
Mr.. A. obeyed. That afternoon they
heard of several other cases in that sub
urb, all under the care of the popular
DR.. Blank. who were dangerously i'll,
and all having temperature of 125 de-
grees-
At night Mrs. A. went round to DR..
Blanks and told him what she had
done; that her husband was up and
dressed, and that he would return to
business in the morning. But she did
not feel well herself. Perhaps she was
tired out. She didn't know. DR.. Blank
looked at her. She did look tired. He
felt her pulse It beat rather fast. He
took her temperature. 1t was 125 de-
grees
Why, you are very Ill. he said.
''You should be at home and in bed.
Your temperature is 125 degrees"
DR. Blank looked anxious
There isn't anything the matter
with that thermometer, is there?" Mrs.
\. asked.
DR. Blank placed it under his own
tongue
And l declare! So is mine" he cried.
Doctor, let me look at it, said Mrs.
A. taking the little instrument that
had sent twenty or thirty people to bed
that week to await near and certain
death. And in half minute this little
woman had solved the mystery of this
sudden epidemic of high temperatures.
The thermometer was broken.-Boston
Journal