Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1897 — SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS. [ARTICLE]

SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS.

fnrious How a Sian Feel* When tit- : known He Need* a Doctor.' 1 “It is curious,” said a men yesterday, i “the various sensations a man expert- ! #n<r-s when he goes to see a doctor or a j dentist. There is a long, preliminary ! ■lege of mental agony, alternately exag geratlng 2nd belittling your ailment until finally In a moment of despera Bon you decide to go an l see what Is the matter, anyway. Perhaps you have a j cold, which has settled on the lungs and developed 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 consuinptiol rise up before your eyes, and every wheeze and cough confirms those terrible premonitions. If you could, yon would go then In a hurry, bnt In the morning yon feel better. “The cough Is still there, but the terrors of the imagination hav, fled be fore the daylight, you put it off another day. But finally decide to go,.and wist firmness born of despair, march up to the medical man’s door to learn your fate. In the case of toothache everyone knows how a tooth w r ili bop and Jump and smart nil day until you got to the dentist's, and then calm down so quiet and painless that you can’t tell which one was acliiug. It is the same way with a cough or other ailment. As you go up to the door you secretly hope that the doctor Is not at home. You pull the doorbell gently, and half wish that you bad not come. Then the funniest part of it all is how mad you wiM get when you find the doctor Is not a* home, and feel as If you had been cheated out of one of your dearest hopes.”—Washington Post,