The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-10
WHEN THE GIANT WAS ILL.

Town Doctor Knew What Was the
Matter but Forgot His Patient Was
SO Very Big.
Generally speaking" said the old
circus man, ''the great giant was as
well a man as ever knew, and he en-
5oyed his good health Immensely.
But, like the wellest of well men,
he did occasionally have his off day.
1t was a curious fact, though, that he
was never sick on the road; whether
1T was the constant excitement or what
that kept him keyed up in shape, I
don't know; but in all the years he
was with us there never was day
when the great giant failed to show as
advertised. 1t was when we got off
the road, in our winter quarters, where
he had nothing to do, that he would
have these occasional little turns.
What i really set out to tell you
about was a funny, queer sort of a
thing that did happen once when the
giant really got sick, when we were in
winter quarters. = ..... .-.
HE was good and sick this time, and
Of course, the. minute we realized this
fact vs. hustled for doctor on the
jump. And we had to get a doctor
from town Our own doctor, who
travelled with the show, and lived with
it, happened jus then to be away at
tending to some personal matter.
1--WE got, of course, the star man
there, and he came and looked the
giant over, going at it like a man that
knew just what he was about, and
then he wrote a prescription for him
rr-ys.sssssissff we got filled by our swiftest
rider, and SO we began doctoring the
giant, with that physicians coming
three times q day to look him over.
He seemed a wise man, sure enough
who knew just what he was doing, but
tie giant didn't improve; in fact, he
got sicker, and then the old man tele-
graphed to the shows doctor to come
and look after the giant
Why said our doctor as soon as
arrived I can't go in and push the
doctor that you've called right off the
map. You might want to call him
again, any time, and it wouldn't do,
anyway. We must observe the proprie-
ties. You must get him call me in
corsulaion'
The old man didn' fancy that much
bur he did it, and the town doctor
fancied this very much himself, but he
did, and In a. about a minute our doc
tor gave him a jolt that must have
made him change his opinion of cir
Gus doctors.
He listened with all due dignity and
decorun, and even with a touch of de-
ference, our doctor did to what the man
I from town had prescribed, and then
our doctor asked to see the prescription
and when he had scanned this.
Doctor, he said gravely and polite
Nv, and he could be grave and polite,
doctor, he said, your diagnosis of the
case, If you will permit me to say so,
does credit to our profession, and the
remedies you have prescribed are pre-
cisely those that I should have pre-
scrfbed myself, but think that you
have psrhaps overlooked one feature
of the case, and that is the patients
dimensions. The quantities called for
In your prescription are such as would
be administered to man 81 of normal
size, but this man is approximately
three times that size. think if you
would multiply the quantities in your
prescription by three you would find
the patient readily responding to treat
nlent.'
could see the great giants knees
Wriggling under his blanket-he enjoy
ed all better than the town doctor did;
but the doctor prescribed on the spot
In accordance with the consulting ply
sician's suggsstion-the two doctors
became friends, as a matter of fact,
after that-and in three days the giant
was around again as well as ever''-