Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1910 — Not a Parallel Case. [ARTICLE]

Not a Parallel Case.

Jokes on the doctor are tempting If the doctor suffers no injustice from them. He 1b usually a good, as well as a good-natured target for assorted witticisms. A writer In the Argonaut has recently related a variation of an old Jest, the victim of which Ib the medical man. Among the patients In a certain hospital there was one disposed to take a dark view of his chances for recovery. “Cheer-,np, old man!" admonished the youthful Intern attached to the ward wherein the patient lay. "Your symptoms are Identical with those of my own case four years ago. I was Just as Bick as you are. Look at me now!" The patient ran his eye over the physician’s stalwart frame. "What doctor did you haver* he finally asked, feebly.