Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — What Napoleon Said to His Doctor. [ARTICLE]

What Napoleon Said to His Doctor.

Doctor, how delightful is reatl The bed has become a place of luxury to me. I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. What mi alteration! How fhllen am I! I, whose activity was boundless, whose mind never slumbered, am now plunged in a lethargic stupor, and must moke an effort even to raise my eyelids. I sometimes dictated upon different subjects to four or five secretaries who wrote as fast as words could be uttered; but then I was Napoleon, now I am no longer anything. My strength, my faculties forsake me. Ido not live; I merely exist. Yon are aware, doctor, that the art oi healing consists in lulling and calming the imagination. That is the reason why the ancients dressed up in robes and adopted a costume striking and imposing. ' That costume you have unadvisedly abandoned; ana you no longer exercise the same Powerful influence over your patients. Who knows whether, if you were suddenly to appear before me with an enormous wig, a cap and long train, I should not take yon for the god of health, whereas you are only the god of medicine. Judo* W. T. Fiddet, of Pittsfield, this State, was. cured of severe rheumatism by. St. Jacobs Oil. — Springfield, Mass., Republican.