Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-11-12
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lou Will ARISE dC Il regular nOuT-ieC
us say seven o'clock. You will then take
three drops of the medicine in a wine
glass of water-the glass must be full
to the brim. Then go out of doors and
walk slowly for Is minutes in the sun
niest spot available, not for exercise,
of course, but in order to have the cir
culation at it's best to promote the &C
ton of the delicately powerful combi-
nation of drugs. I will arrange with
Mrs. Clark for your breakfast diet.
After breakfast you will sit in the open
air for an hour, at the end of which
time you will take walk or ride. Don't
return from it until the dinner hour,
when you may take second dose. Rest
for an hour after dinner, and then pass
your time as you please out of doors.
"A third dose should be taken at sup
iper-time, and q fourth before retiring.
I rely upon you to carry out these di-
rections to the letter.
Indeed I WILL she promised. and
then her face fell, and she leaned toward
me as she asked: Doctor, have I q
tuberculous diathesis? There was q
Frenchman, such delightful man I
thought at first, who talked SO beau
tifully about that. Tell me, truly, do
you think have one?"
"Mrs. Loring," 1 declared. earnestly,
stake my word for it, you have nothing
to fear on that score"
s'But there was that London DOCTOR"
she persisted, 'he said that I was
nnaemic; and he looked so wise, with
his great white beard like an ancient
sage. Ii it had not been for the snuff,
perhaps-but. doctor, do please tell me
If he was mistaken; 1 had to give him
up; really, doctor. I had to; the snuff
was too much.''
Another instance of groundless
fears said /.
'And hereditary tendencies? So
many advisers have spoken of them,
doctor, but always so indefinitely; that
is, all but one was indefinite, and he
would you believe it, doctor ?-he in
sisted that there must be govt in the
family, and he would have it so, though
I knew, doctor. knew he must be mis-
taken. for I never Observation-Disclosures,
doctor, neyer-my father suffered in
his feet but once, and then, doctor,
knew it was chilblains; I'm sure IL
was, DOCTOR"
: "Really, Mrs. Loring," I urged, "you
have no cause of complaint against
your ancestors. except, possibly in that
you inherit from them susceptibilities
of unusual keenness. There can hardly
be an escape from some of the penalties
nature exacts from the possessor of an
artistic temperament. The finest por-
celain demands the gentlest handling.
I think you catch my meaning"
"Just as l have thought so many.
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of delight. You put it so feelingly
doctor-so feelingly. You can't realize
how rejoiced 1 am to know that am
under your treatment. I shall expect
you to accomplish wonders. doctor,
really wonders
1--WE shall do our best. you and 1.
and much can be counted on from
the medicine you are to take. But re-
member, please, that the directions for
its use are to be followed exactly"
Her face frightened.
"You won't mind showing me the pre-
scription, will you?' she said. II dear
ly love TO see them. although of course
I can't read them. They're like the
hieroglyphics in the museum. so in
teresting and Instructive; don't yon
think SO, doctor?"
why certainly you can see it, said
1, scribbling away on sheet of my note
book. Here it is
She took the paper. and surveyed it
with something approaching awe, in
spite of her long acquaintance with
such documents.
Probably it was we'll for both of us
that she could make nothing of it.