Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS. [ARTICLE]

SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS.

Onlou How a Has Feels Whan H« Know* Ha Needs a Doctor. “It fat curious,” said a men yesterday, “tbs variooa sensations a man experience* whan he goes to see a doctor or a den dot There la a long, preliminary Stage of mental agony, alternately exaggerating «Ujd belittling your ailment, nntQ finally In a moment of deepenlion yon decide to go and aee what Is the matter, anyway. Perhaps you hare a oold, which has settled on the lungs and dereloped a troublesome cough that keeps you awake nights. The cough itself is not so bad as the terrible possibilities It suggests. Visions Of swift demise from pneumonia or slow, wasting away with consumption rise np before your eyes, and every wheeze and cough confirms these terrible premonitions. If you could, yon 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 fled before the daylight, you put It off another day. Bnt finally decide to go, and witk firmness born of despair, march np to the medical man’s door to learn your fate. In the case 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 tell which one was aching. It Is the same way with a cough or other ailment As you go up to the door you secretly hope that the doctor la not at home. You pull the doorbell gently, and half wish that yon 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 as If you had been cheated out of one of your dearest hopes."—Washington Post