Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1900-01-10
A VERY HOT PATIENT.
HE LIKEWISE WAS A MAN WITH
VERY QUEER TASTE.

Tho Singular Case 81 q Genius who
Was I'm Good Health Apparently
While the Thersno.,ctcr Register
ell His Temperature at I25.
There are any number OF malingerers
In town. began the attending physi-
clan at an east side hospital They
have the ability to reign diseases.
throw fits ON the street. get picked ND
by the ambulance and sometimes they
Impose upon the house physician aud
the nurses and are allowed to stay
little while in a hospital knew OF
que s-en who was really an expert at
I ile business. IT rrz1ir,i ;s:@ doctors
ana lived FOR the ~ at.- part Of three
years NJ various hospitals was one
Of his dupes
4 Il had a hurry call 20 n house on Sec
f ond avenue. ON the second floor |
found my man lying unconscious. with
blood upon his mouth. ! felt his pulse
and found there wasn't anything un-
usual about that. Then in tearing Off
his clothes TO make hurried examina-
i ton. found that his ribs on the left
side were all pasted mp with court
plaster. In strips. just as any doctor
wouli tx up broken ribs
That's where the blood comes
from. / said at once. 'Oue Of the
fractured ribs has slipped and pune
tured tle lung
Il gave him somctbiu. to stop the
bleeding anG % hypodormic injection to
bring him out. and tlen bound up an
open i,uiSc discovered on his elbow.
While ne wa- .oVering consciousness
I took his temperature aud found II
away uu- Jos and lu9 Now. tlc nor
NAL temperature ol % human being is
9S.4. In tLn wo.-. co~e> of pneu-
uonia wc don't expect to fnd il over
. 100.
''I~si then thr rnau caue 1o and tried
10 maf- mc understand what had hap
pened 90 hin. I 60; a German in from
acro-s the hau To- interpret. The pa
tient said be had fallen through an
open hatch ou a schooner bound from
Baltimore to Ncw York. about 80 month
ago. that Le had heen attended 10y
physician on hiS arrival here aui had
got alou- all right until now HGon
he had suddenly collapsed. His tenn
pcraturc showed me that had a seri-
I 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 10 bed uni explained the cxtraor-
dinary feature of his case 20 the
house The house took his tempera-
ture again. and il was III. Then we
/ druGScl him and drugged him and
7 gave LiS feet cold baths and took his
I temperature again IL had run up 70
lib And There d.dn't seem 20 bc ans
thing the matter with him outside OF
that.
Everybody iu thc hospital got TO
talking about the case. When the at
tending went through the ward the
I house hurried him by that German.
He didn't want 90 confess that he was
staggered. The patient didn't grow
any worse. He maintained constant
I iy hisA temperature anywhere between
10 2nd I'D. aul we kept up the drugs
and tAc cold foot baths
"Ono day the attending noticed the
case ana asked how long that man was
going 20 be Keep, In bed TO cure n sore
elbow. Then thc nurse told him. Take
his tcmpc0rure' said the attending
"rhc nurse pUt the thermometer i'm
the mans mouth under the tongue AMI
the doctor watched narrowly. All OF a
sudden he Waih>i up 10 the bed. Ger
ont ca here. Get up and dress and
don't let me see YOU again he said
| stcrnly 10 the patient
And Ia half an hour the man was
out on the sidewalk. You see that
doctor was an older man than any OF
us. lie saw the man was taking. thar
hr manipulated the thermometer i'm his
mouth So that by friction he could run
II up as high as he pleased.
The next day this same man was
picked up on the street and taken To
another hospital and the same doctor
who was attending at both places
caught him there the very first thing.
For three years / heard OF that Ger
man. Oft and on. always with the same
patched ribs. sore elbow and extraor-
dinary temperature. Why. one doctor
up in Connecticut wrote paper for a
medical review In which he said he
had found man apparently in normal
health with = tcmpera ture Of I3T. It
was our malingcrcr
1T c0ullns have been any run Ell
ther. The doctors were always at him
with hypodermics. cold water and SO
on. lie had queer taste.''-New-YOrk
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