Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1898 — SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS. [ARTICLE]

SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS.

Curious How a Man Feels When HA Knows He Needs a Doctor, “It is curious,” said a men yesterday “the various sensations a man experiences when he goes to see a doctor or a lentist. There is a long, preliminary siege of mental agony, alternately exaggerating 2nd 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 Jungs 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 of slow, wasting away with consumption rise up before your eyes, and every wheeze and cough confirms these terri ble premonitions. If you could, you would go then Id a hurry, but in the morning you feel better. “The cough is still there, but the tenon of the imagination have fled before the daylight, you put it off another 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 case of toothache every one knows how a tooth will hop and lump and smart all day until you get io the dentist’s, an< 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 is not at home. You pull the doorbell gently, and half wish that you had not come. Then the funniest part of it all is bow mad you will get when you find the doctor is not at home, aqd feel as if you had been cheated out of one of your dearest fiopee.”— Washington Post,