Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — A Physician's Last Resort. [ARTICLE]

A Physician's Last Resort.

‘‘My doctor is a real joker,” said a Lewiston lady. “I didn’t know that my talking bothered him when he was writing prescriptions until yesterday. He never mentioned it, and I always asked him all sorts of questions while he was writing them out. Yesterday he examined me and sat down to write something. I kept talking. Suddenly he looked up and said : ‘How has your system been? Holdout your tongue.’ I put out that member and he began to write. He wrote and I held out my tongue, aud when he got through be said: 'That will do.’ ‘But,’ said I, ‘you haven’t looked at it.’ ‘No,’said he, ‘I didn’t care to. I only wanted to keep it still while I wrote the pre cription.’ ”