Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1906 — Curions Medical Phenomena. [ARTICLE]

Curions Medical Phenomena.

A Philadelphia physician, while making a social visit at the house of q friend, chanced to meet a colleague. After some general conversation, a remark was made that gave a professional turn to the talk. The first physician said:

“You know one may look into the throat of a child and determine upon which foot it is standing merely by the way in which the blood collects on the other side of the body.” “A more remarkable fact than that,” observed the second doctor, “is that by manual training you can actually increase the size of the brain of a stupid child, so that by proper mental exercise it develops a marked degree of intelligence.”

It is probable that the host began to suspect that his medical friends were trying to “chaff” him; at any rate, he, as a layman, contributed the following extraordinary addition to the stock of medical knowledge: “Gentlemen,” said he, “the facts you mention are nothing compared to one coming under my own obesrvation. I have actually seen a man who by looking in his pocketbook eould tell you what he was to have for dinner!” — Success Magazine.