Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — Queer Patients. [ARTICLE]

Queer Patients.

A person with a diseased imagination finds no difficulty In being sick. Commenting on the general tendency of humanity to Indulge In fancy diseases, a well known doctor of Philadelphia says that half his patients were not in the slightest need of medicine. Some of them, ho said, were tired and worn out, but all they needed was a little rest, und If ho refused to prescribe ho would surely be discharged. He has a special remedy for all such cases, and while the prescription looks formidable, the apothecary understands it as a little bread with just enough soap added to give it flavor and to keep the bread in the form of a pill. That doctor knows his business. He does not destroy his patients with medicine, but keeps them alive to pay for being doctored.