Arizona republican., 1898-07-01

which she should describe her symp- toms, real or imagined, the systems of treatment to which she had been sub jected, the effects, good, bad or in 1 different, produced by them, and the opinions thereof, weighty or valueless. of many persons unknown to her auditor. It was a contest, valiant but unequal, and at last the woman had the man at her mercy.
 "Oh, doctor, dear doctor" she ras- tied on, you can't imagine how pleased yes, rejoiced-I am to be under your care. I wish could tell you, describe to you, the miseries I've suffered, the horrors I've undergone at the hands of those wretches. Ugh! it makes me shiver to think of them. But can't tell you; I can't bear even to think of them. Now there was that last one, so highly recommended, too. I went to him, doc tor-picture my going to him-abso- lutely putting my life in his charge, doctor-just after I had escaped from that quacE who had made me take electric shocks and ride horse-such a dreadfully hard trotting horse. too four hours every day. And what, doc tor, do you imagine that next wretch did? Think of it! He thrust me into what he called a 'rest-cure;' absolutel:: nothing to do, nothing to see, nobody to speak to. Why, doctor, it was mad dening, simply maddening!"
 'My dear Mrs. Loring," I broke in. "pray do not agitate yourself with |
 But she had regained breath and was again in full career. Rest-cures. water-cures, milk-cures, steam-cures: drenchines internal and external, pills. pads and plasters; sea air, mountain air; massage, calisthenics, and ou.- door exercise: drugs by wholesale. diets without number, treatments rep resenting a range from the latest and best in the medical science to close ap. proach to the superstitions of voudoo- | ism-alT these she had survived. For two long hours her tale flowed on in flood which overwhelmed all inter ruptions. and when she paused at last it was rather from weariness than from an exhausted subject.
 1 For a woman of such experiences | she looked remarkably well. Her com pleXion was pale and sallow, and her nerves were lon edge" as she herself 1 phrased it; but the stethoscope showed that her lungs were not affected. and there was nothing to cause alarm in thu, action of the heart. Her digestion w..S weak-it could hardly have been other wise after the trials to which it had been put for so many years-and un- | occasionally she had had some genu- inc twinges of rheumatism, but these were not very weighty reasons for traipsing about two hemispheres. As many of my predecessors had prob ably decided, it seemed clear to me that the best plan to pursue was to let her entertain herself win some harm less dose, and to strive to induce her to forget that she believed herself an in- valid.
 "Your case, Mrs. Loring, is most in teresting," said I, gravely.
 And complicated" said she, earnest ly. ''So many physicians have spoken of complications"
 ''They could hardly avoid it. But that is not the point just now. shall ' have to ask you to submit implicitly to my guidance. I shall give you a pre- scription of great efficacy, but one which must be used with rigid care. You will arise at regular hour-let 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 15 minutes in the sun niest spot available, not for exercise, of course, but in order to have the cir culation at its best to promote the ac- tion of the delicately powerful combi- nation of drugs. 1 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 a second dose. Rest for an hour after dinner, and then pass your time as you please out of doors third dose should be taken at sup per-time, and fourth before retiring. l rely upon you to carry out these di- Iections to the letter.
 AhNANNN " III, SlC DIOullSeu, sbuu then her face fell, and she leaned toward me as she asked: Doctor, have I a tuberculous diathesis? There was q Frenchman, such delightful man I thought at first, who talked so beau .ifully about that. Tell me, truly, do you think I have one?'
 'sMrs. Loring," 1 declared, earnestly, stake my word for it. YOU have nothin,r to fear on that score''
 ''But there was that London doctor" she persisted, ''he said that I was anaemic; and he looked so wise, with his great white beard like an ancient sage. If it had not been for the snuff. rerhaps-hut. doctor, do please tell ne ii he was mistaken; had to give him up; really. doctor, I had to; the snuff was too much"
 Another instance of groundless fears," said l.