Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-02
Doctor Diagnoses Some Cases OF.
hand on the Streets in Mar.
yellOus Fashion.
THEN THE REPORTER HAS A TRY
Officer McGinty, However, Begs to Dit.
fer and Gathers in a Very
Interesting Case.

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sides on the east side and as he waited,
satchcl In hand-that squat, long, black
grip, which made every woman shud-
der AS IT caught her cye-on the clock
corner he Killed time by taking snap
shot diagnoses among the throng that
was passing along the sidewalk.
This Is how It started.
Doctor, how Is It that occasionally
one sees sn individual with comic
opera locks Of gnow white hair tucked
away among a wig Of ordinary oolor2"
"Well, that's easy. lie Is a neurot-
ic,"
"a what? / should think that he
would have gray hair carrying such
a thing about with him. But, seriously,
doctor, can the average medical man
ten u complaint on.hand?'
INTERESTING PERSONS.
Tbe doctor went on to tell Of what
he called interesting persons per.
sons who were carrying around within
their bodies secrets which a doctor
alone Guesses and in many cases they
themselves are not aware Of,
Now, what Is the matter with that
fellow7' was asked as a w~ell-known
figure Of Salt Lakes streets drifted
painfully by all askcw and at stated
Intervals calling Papers"
"He has a beautiful case Of spastic
paraplegia," was the answer, This Is
a disease Of the spinal cord. The pa
ticnt walks with his toes turned in,
they catch In one another and trip him
up-thtn he clings,'
CAN TELL BY THEIR WALK.
you can tell a number Of diseases
Just by the manner in which a man
or woman walks. That man over there
who is lifting his feet so carefully and
putting them down again with great
dellberatIou, | should diagnose as SUI
foring from alcoholic neurItes. Then
there Is the man with ~sclatica who Is
extremely careful not 10 put his heel to
the ground, and who always sits with
| one hip straight and his foot curled
Under MIN. The man who walks with
a sort of circular sweep and a stamp,
he has locomotor ataxia, BY the pose
Of the body also one can tell whether a
subject is suffering from kidney trout
| bic. Other diseases such as-(hero he
named Il number that ATE not alluded
to save in whispers), you can pick out
almost every time by the walk and
department generally of those affict-
ed
Continuing he said; 'One only has
10 use his eyes to penetrate some OF
ones neighbors' secrets, There goes
a lady, not the one IN the blue dress,
that one with the anaemic complexion
| and tho puffy pouches under her eyes,
You will probably chronicle her death
within the next two years. She Is
suffering undoubtedly from Brights
disease
ASTOUNDING NAMES.
II was all very interesting and the
names Of the complaints which some
| people carried around with them were
astounding. When IL came 10 spelling
them that was another question For
instance when one sees q man with q
ctrlously curved hand the poor fellow
generally has muscular atrophy- that's
easy. but what about mySoedema ana
the loss Of the thyroid gland. When
a person has that they have patches OF
hair missing from their scalp and wear
n curious bloated cast of countenance.
Then there Is the man who Is the proud
possessor Of aortic reorganization. You
can tell him whenever he sits down,
He crosses his legs and his free foot
heats the air regularly, Then there Is
the man who carries his hands In front
| of him and seems to be continually en-
agcged in rolling imaginary cigarettes.
lie has the palsy.
SIGNS EVERYWHERE,
There are signs everywhere. There
Is the dun look OF the eplleptic. the
wild look OF the maniac, who always
wears his hair as though 1t were "A hay
stack, the downcast hypochondriac, the
silly glance of the imbeclle, There Is
the man who when he gets excited talks
RAPIDLY and his lower lip gives the im-
| IIfNNlNIl AlNAl lt - Ah'hN W. . w
ing closer one observes that the pupils
of his eyes are Of Il different size, This
Is the commencement OF the general
! paralysis Of the insane.
Had the doctor remained much long.
or he might have tackled Il %seven.syl-
| liable complaint on To the querist, but
Just at that junCture the Sixth street
| car came along and with u nod he and
his satchel boarded the platform and
went sailing W East Temple street,
WRONG DIAGNOSIS,
At that moment a wild-eyed indlvid-
ual with orratic gait and hair askew
hove across the vision OF the reporter.
1t was an interesting case, SO stupen .
duus was his complaint that he occu-
pied the entire width Of the sidewalk
simultaneously. From the opposite d.
re2tlon Officer McGinty bore down upon
him and gathered him In,
II will call the hospital ambulance,
Slegfus,' volunteered the reporter. this
is quite an Interesting case, the poor
fellow has ncurotic, spinal myxoe-
demn.'
"Neurootlc ~ returned McGinty
%savagely, 'Youse quit yer dOmmed tom.
fOOlery or III run yer IN too. an XII
Doe Sol Kimhall ter treat yer fer chron.
&c t|ip.lipitis,'