The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-31
BLUsHING CAN BE CURED.
Physicians Who Make Specially OF
Relieving the Embarrassed.

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Perhaps there is no question which
editors have to deal with more ire
ouently than the cure of blushing, IL
is NOT 70 be wondered at, therefore,
that there are now in London two or
three ladies and gentlemen who have
| made this interesting ailment their
special study. AS to the actual moue
F, OF cure we will say nothing, but un-
| doubtedly among the patients of the
..blushing doctor there are some sorely
| afflicted, and yet withal interesting
| individuals in all classes Of society
Let the doStor speak for himself.
zone of my first patients was
captain of crack cavalry regiment,
who. though perfectly at his ease when
conversing- with men, was in the pres
ence of ladies' covered with confusion
and color. This, as you may imagine,
was q constant source of grief to him,
and he actually declared that II he
| were not cured of blushing he shouid
| have to resign his commission.
| "Of course, l number scores of cler-
| gymen among my patients. ohe-a
curate-plaintively said that When
| called upon to read the lessons, ne IN
variably stood before ms consreta.,oi' ;,o
with his face the color of ripe toma-
TO. His white surplice heightened the
| effect. and frivolous members ot his
| congregation had not hesitated to com
| pare him to a candle that had just
! been blown out, leaving glowing
red spark at the top. Instead OF being
| edited by his discourse. therefore the
members of the congregation We're III
| sore danger of being led into levity.
| And this thought gave him great pain.
Even more serious, in a certain
sense, was the case of q young man
employed in a large diapers shop was
was actually discharged by his irate
employer, simply because whenever
asked by q lady customer to show
goods, he was in the habit of b!ushing
/ and stammering violently. Further
| more, In the case of certain goods he
was wholly unable to transact any
business at all. Several complaints
| had been made of this weakness on the
part of the young man, and the mat
| ter eliminated in his receiving his
| weeks wages and his dismissal, to say
nothing of torrent OF abuse from his
! late master.
| "A very interesting case was that of
! a young lady who recently wrote to me
| in great distress. She, too, was in the
| habit of blushng to the roots of h"r
hair whenever spoken to; and her chiel
| trouble lay in the fact that, owing to
this same blushing habit, several young
men Of her Cqua!ntance-with the con-
| ceit of youth--rather fancied that she
| was in love with them, whereas. she
| regarded them with perfect indiffer-
ence. This was a really difficult case.
"You would think that commercial
| travellers We're the very last men in the
world to need my treatment, yet NUM-
Der among my patients savera! knishts
| of the road. Now, clearly, the persua-
siye topgrs and alluring samples of the
traveller avail him nothing IL he can
not refrain from becoming q lively
crimson directly he confronts pos
| sible buyer"
1t is an interesting fact that the
| number of blushing doctors Is increas-
| ing. and it Is, undoubtedly, better
paying profession than that of the or
| dinary medical practitioner