Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS. [ARTICLE]

SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS.

Carious How a Man Feels When He Knows He Needs a Doctor. “It R curious,” said a men yesterday, “the various sensations a man experiences when he goes to see a doctor or a dentist. There is a long, preliminary siege of mental agony, alternately exaggerating and belittling your ailment, until finally In a moment of desperation you decide to go and see what Is the matter, anyway. Perhaps you have a cold, which has settled on the lungs and developed a troublesome cough that keeps you awake nights. The cough itself Is not so bad us the terrible possibilities it suggests. Visions of swift demise from pneumonia or slow, wasting away with consumption rise up before y nir eyes, and every wheeze and cough confirms these terrible premonitions. If you could, you would go then in a hurry, but in the morning you feel better. “The cough is still there, but the terrors of the imagination have lied ire fore the daylight, you put it off anoth. i day. But finally decide to go. and with firmness born of despair, march up to the medical man’s door to learn your fate. In the ease of toothache every one knows how a tooth will hop and Jump and smart all day until you get. to the dentist’s, and then calm down so quiet and painless that you can’t tel! which one was aching. It Is the saint way with a cough or other ailment. As you go up to the door you secretly hop* that the doctor is not at home. You pull the doorbell gently, nnzl half wish that you had not come. Then the funniest part of it all is how mad you will get when you find the doctor is not at home, and feel ns if you had been cheated out of one of your dearest hopes.”—Washington Post.