Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1881 — Marrying in Ill-Health. [ARTICLE]

Marrying in Ill-Health.

A prominent Eastern physician has related that he was consulted by two consumptives as to the propriety of marrying. They were both weakly in constitution, but intellectually brilliant, and their tastes were harmonious. They loved each other ardently, and could not be happy apart. He counseled them to marry, and they did so. They lived together most pleasantly for about a dozen years, and died at about the same time. According to the physical school of thinkers, they should have remained single, each dragging out the twelve years in solitary discontent. Of course there can bp no general rule for cases in which disease exists; each instance must be judged on its own merits, ftati (/Witte,