The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-04
A VERY HOT PATIENT.
He LIKEWISE WAS A MAN WITH A
VERY QUEER TASTE.

The Singular Case OF n Gcniua Who
Was 4" Good Health Apparently
While the Thermometer RcgIster-
ed His Temperature ut 1875.
"There are any number OF mnlinyerers
i'll town began the attending physi-
clan ut an east side hospital. They
have the ability to fcign diseases.
throw Tits on the street, get picked up
by the ambulance and sometimes they
impose upon the house physician and
the nurses and are allowed IL STAY a
little while in Il hospital. knew OF
one man who WAS really an expert nj
the business. He puzzled the doctors
anu lived for the greater part OF three
years ut various hospitals. WAS one
Of his luprS
II had :! hurry call IL II houSr on Soc
ond avenue. On the second noor |
found my man lying unconscious. With
blood upon his mouth rclt his pulse
and found there wasn't anything un
usual about thnt. Then. in tearing of
his clothes to make Il hurricd cXalnI,u-
ton. found that his ribs on the lrCt
side were Ill pasted up with co,irt
p!;Stcr. i'll strips JUS. as any doctor
WoGls. i.A UP iiiuhtll r.iS.
"'rlnt'.; where tlr blood co:;,ri
from. said IT onc.. ',lnr ot .l.
fractured ribs has Slipped ai.d punc.
tnrrd tie lung
Il gave him >omrllus 10 yinp the
b!ecdi:,,: and Il hylm'.'rri.,. njc ion in
lri;l:; linn out. and iiN.i l'niiu,. ,ip IN
ol,rn lf;'uii. | discovered on his elbow
While hr MAS rH''o,ei ~. consciousness
i took his icnipnr:i.llr anl found ii,
away Up los and iuH Sos. He nor.
NAL .rinn.'l:,t,l!r "t :; ii'''nail being j.,
nS.; III the worse c,>,.., uf rnr;;-
mnna we don't expect "a find il over
iG..
just then The nlan came tn and tried
10 make n!r understand what liaI hap.
prncu 10 him. got Il German ia from
across the hall to interpret. The pa"
ticnt said he had fallen through an
open hatch sin II schooner bound from
Baltimore 10 New York about ii nontl,
ago; that he had been attended Ivy Il
physician OH his arrival here and had
got along all right until NOW when
he had suddenly collapsed. Ills tenn
peraturc showed me that | had n scri.
ous case on my hands. though
couldn't tell for the life OF me what
was the matter with him.
IL hurried him into the hospital. put
him to bed and explained the extraor-
dinury feature OF hi, ease to the
house The house took his tcinpcra-
turc again. and it WIS Ill! Then VIC
druggcd him and dru"gctl him ana
gave his feet cold baths AMI took his
temperature again. 1t lad run up ~
113. And there didn't seem To l,c any
thing the matter with him outside OF
that.
'iivrryi,udy i'll the hospital got to
talking about the case. When the at
tending went through the ward the
house hurried him by that German.
He didn't want 10 confess that he was
staggered. The patient didn't grow
any worse. He maintained IL constant
ly high temperature anywhere between
40 and l25, and we kept up the drugs
and the cold foot bnths.
''Onc day the attending noticed the
case and asked how long that man was
going to be kept in bed to cure "A sore
elbow. Then the nurse told him. Take
his temperature,' said the attending
THE nurse put the thermometer in
the mans mouth under the tongue anil
the doctor watched narrowly. All Of n
sudden he walked up to the bed. Get
out OF here! Get up and dress and
don't let me see you again. he snid
stcrnly to the patient.
-'Ani in ialf aii hour the nun was
out Oh the sidewalk You see that
doctor was an older man than any Of
us. He saw the man was taking, that
he manipulated the THERMOMETERS in his
mouth SO that by friction he could run
it up as high as lie pleased.
'"Tllc next day this same man was
picked up Oh the street and taken to
another hospital, and the same doctor
who was attending ut both places
caught him there tho very first thing.
For three years | heard Of that Ger
man. of and on, always with the same
patched ribs, sore elbow and cXtraor-
dlnary temperature. Why, one doctor
UP in Connecticut wrote n paper for Il
medical review in which he said he
had found Il man apparently III normal
health with n temperature OF 1877. 1t
was cur il.a!!siscrcr.
ut couldn't have been any fun I'll.
thcr. The doctors were always at him
with hypodermics, cold water and SO
on. He had queer taste."-Ncw York
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