Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-01-25

sICKHEss 4 TRADE.
ssIt takes all kinds of people to
make world,n is common saw
ing, and it has been proven beyond
doubt that there are people in
thickly settled counties like in
cities that make sickness a trade
to secure a lazy living. How
many such people live in country
districts, investigation has not re-
vealed. Playing .sold SOLDIER ia
the army was well known trick,
but until recently it was not gener-
ally known that city hospitals have
a good many inmates that make.
pretend sickness a trade. The
Chicago Inter Ocean sent a repre-
sentative into the hospitals on a
special mission to learn something
about those who have taken up
pretended sickness as trade and
by it get lazy living in the hos
pitals. He found a number of
cases. Here is case Of
HEART DISEASE,
He was middle aged man, and
he made his living out of his trick.
When he is hungry or cold, needs
ii hair cut, he simply has an at
tack and falls in heap on some
street corner. A policeman sends
in hurry call, an ambulance
dashes up, and Bowling is soon
lying in a cool hospital cot and
sucking broth through a straw.
Sometimes he is SO weak that he
needs glass of invigorating port
wine to brace him up. Of late he
has been complaining of hard times.
The police have come to know him,
and sometimes they do not appre-
ciate his enterprise. Here is the
case OF a woman with
MANUFACTURED TUMOR.
A doctor in another hospital
tells of woman who was able to
raise what is known as phantom
tumOr. She was admitted to the
institution suffering, apparently,
from a small swelling which was
diagnosed as a tumOr. She Occu
pied a bed in a ward for some time,
while various means for the reduc-
tion of the lump were practiced.
Finally it was decided to operate,
and the patient was put under
ether. When the doctors leaned
forward to make the first incisiOn,
10 and behold the tumOr was gone.
They thought this rather curious
and decided to postpone the Oper-
alton. When the woman was al
lowed to revive and was question
ed she stoutly maintained that she
had the tumOr and pointed to it in
proof. Sure enough, it was there.
She was put under the influence
of ether again, but this time the
swelling was watched, and as the
drug began to take effect it was
seen slowly to recede. The patient
was, therefore, put back to bed,
and the hospital authorities at
tempted to look up her antece,
dents. After some research it was
! found that she was known in near
ly every hospital in London and to
q few in New York. She could
raise the lump at will merely by
exercising certain muscles, and she
got her living by the imposition or
! hospital authorities. Here is one
! who
FEIGNED LAME LEGS.
At another hospital the doctors
tell how they got rid of a man wht
feigncd paralysis Of the legs Tbs
man affirmed that he could moi
walk, and lay apparently helpless
at the mercy of a tremendous ap
petite. One summers day wheI
the man had to be wheeled out OF
a veranda, the physicians rigget
up a hose at the foot of the para
lytic's bed, fixing the nozzle il
SuCu d HuduuCT ludt = oSlCAn "
water would strike the man neal
the neck. That night, while th'
patient was asleep, the faucet con
Meeting with the hose was turnet
on. Several doctors were in thu
office awaiting developments. Al
most instantly the yells of the mai
awakened nearly every one in th'
hospital, and in a moment he wa
jumping down stairs three steps a
a time. He made great Outcry
but the authorities did not have t.
persuade him to leave. He wen
on his own accord, and nothing bu
padded cell could have held hin
back. Here is one who
WANTED TO LIVE IN A HOSPITAL.
.'There was another fellow VIII
; was admitted to this hospital suffer
ing with stomach trouble, so b.
said, and his description of tn
general symptoms of a certain dis
ease was so accurate that it wa
decided to operate Oh him. HI
was put under ether and cut opel
, and examined, only to be fount
quite healthy. 1t took him SOM
, time to get well, and things wen
easily wita him meanwhile. Whel
, the cut had almost healed he be
gan complaining again, and in tn
end q second operation was per
formed, with no other result thai
to insure him a bed and board TO
a month or more We found tina
man had a record. He was vel
.. read in the symptoms of diseases
He knew just how to act in orde