Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-06-11

morning, in which courtesy and OBJ
stinacy were finely blended, when Mrs.
Loripg and her medical adviser came
together for discussion of her case.
The points at issue were the length,
particuIarlty and minuteness with
which she should describe her symp-
toms, real or imagined, the systems of
treatment TO which she had been sub
1ected, the effects, good, bad or Inc
different, produced by them, and the
opinions thereof, weiYhty or yalueless,
of many persons unknown TO her
auditor. II WIS contest, valiant but
unequal, and at last the woman had
the man at her mercy.
ooh, doctor, dear Doctor" she rat
tied on, you can't imagine how pleased
yes, rejoiced-I am to be under your
care. 1 wish / could tell you, describe
10 you, the miseries I've suffered, the
horrors I've undergone at the hands Of
those wretchcs. Ugh it makes me
shiver 70 think of them. But l can't tell
you can't bear even to think of them.
Now there was that last one, 80 highly
recommended, too. went 10 him, doc
tor-picture my going 70 him-abso-
lutely putting my life in his charge,
doctor-just otter had escaped from
that quack who had made me take
electric shocks and ride q horse-such
a6readfully hard trotting horse, too
four hours every day. And what. doc
tor, do you imagine that next wretch
did2 Think of it, He thrust me into
what he called a 'rest-curej' Absolutely
nothing to do, nothing TO see, nobody
70 speak TO. Why, doctor, IT was mad
dcnlng, simply mnddcningl"
MY dear Mrs. Loring," I broke In,
"pray do not agitate yourself with
such memories. II you please"
But she had regained breath and
was again In full career. Rest-cures,
water-cues, millf-cures, steam-cures,
drenchings internal and external, pills,
pads and plasters; sea air, mountain
air; massage, culisthenics, and cut
door excrdEe; drugs by wholesale,
diets without number, treatments rep
resenting p range from die latest and
best IN the medical science TO close app
proach 10 the superstltions of voudoo-
ism-all these she had survived. For
two long hours her tale flowed ON in
d flood which overwhelmed all inter
.uptions, and when she paused Mt last
IL was rather from weariness than from
On exhausted subject
For woman of such experiences
she looked remarkably well. Her com
plcxion was pale and sallow, and her
nerves were ION edge, ,"sas she herself
phrased 1t; but the stethoscope showed
that her lungs were not affected, and
there was nothing 10 cause alarm in tho
action of the heart. Her digestion was
weaIs--it could hardly have been other
wise after the trials to which IL had
been put for so many years-and un-
questionnbly she had had some genu-
Inc twinges OF rheumatVm. but these
were not very weighty reasons for
traipsing about two hemispheres. As
many of my predecessors had prob
ably decided, ii seemed clear 10 me
that the best plan TO pursue was TO let
her entertain herself with some harm
less dose, and To strive to induce her
10 forget that she believed herself an in
valid.
"Your case, Mrs. Loring, Is most in
tercstiug," said l, gravely.
"And complicpted," said she, earnest
ly. 80 many physicians have spoken
OF complications
They could hardly avoid -. But
that is not the point just now. / shall
have 10 usk you 10 submit implicitly 20
my guidance. / shall give you pre-
scription Of great efficacy, but one
which must be used with rigid care
You win arise at n regular hour-let US
say scvcp o'clock. You will then take
three drops of the medicine in wine
gluss of water-the glass must be full
10 the bI1m. Then 30 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
rulntion at It's best 70 promote the ne.
tion OF the dclicatcly powerful combi-
nntion of drugs | viii 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 Srom IL until the dinner hour,
when you may take a second dose. Rest
for un hour nfter dinner, and then pass
your time as you please out of doors
A third dose should bc taken at sup
Dcr-timc. ond fourth before retiring.
I rely upon you 10 carry out these di-
rcctions 20 the letter"
Indeed I will" she promised. and
then her face fell. and she leaned toward
me MS she asked. Doctor, have / n
tubcrculous diathesis? There was n
Frenchman, such q delightful man ]
Thought "a first, who talked so beau
tifully about that. Tell me. truly, do
You think have opc2"
"Mrs. Loring," | declared, earnestly,
"talle my word for 81, you have nothing
10 fear on that score"
"But there was that London doctor"
Hhe persisted, "he said that ! was
auncmic; and he looked so wise, with
his great white beard like an ancient
snge. n It had not been for the SNUFF,
pcrhnps-but, doctor, do please tell mc
II he was mistaken; ! had TO give him
up; really, doctor. had to; the snuff
was too much"
Another instance of groundlcss
fears" spid |.
"And hereditary tendencie82 So
many udviqcrs have spoken Of them,