Life — August 6, 1896 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: THE NECESSARY PART. WHE: Can you let me have the money for my new wheel? Huspanp: But I gave you $100 last week for that purpose. ‘True, my dear, but I wanted to be sure of my costume first.” NOT AN UNCOMMON COMPLAINT. EGACEPHALOMANIA, or Swelled Head.—A disease prevalent in many parts of North America, not common, as a rule, to urban districts, but finding its sway in the larger cities and seeming to be ap- parently the outcome of certain influences and environments. It is usually fatal in its character and few have been known to recover from its effects. As the name implies it is purely a brain disease, the first symptoms being an exhaltation of mind, the patient imagining that others see him as he sees himself. It differs however, from paresis, acute mania and other forms of cerebral hypermatamorphosis in that it has no serious effects upon the patient himself; those who know him being the real sufferers. It is more usual among artists and literary men, attacking these classes with great violence. The first symptoms WONDERFUL. Mother; Wry, CONSTANCE AMELIA, WHERE have YOU BEE WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO You ? C. A.: 1 WENT TO THE BARN AND FELL ASLEEP ON A BAG OF FERTILIZING POWDERS! usually are seen after the patient has pro- duced some work that has cither been favorably or unfavorably noticed—it makes little difference which so long as it has become prominent. In this first stage there asa rule, some effort discernable on the part of the victim to overcome this insidious malady, but in the second stage all sense of its deadly power seems to be lost, and in the third and final stage, the case is utterly hopeless. When in this condition, it is better to avoid the patient. Not that this will make any difference to him, but it will relieve your own sufferings. MORE ETIQUETTE. Ww" EN a boy, stabbed to the heart, asked a drug- gist the other day to attend to him the druggist answered, ‘* Weare not allowed to dress wounds; that is for doctors.” Thereupon the dying boy went out and hunted for a physician. Is this another example of medical etiquette? If strictly followed it undoubtedly brings many jobs to doctors that otherwise would fall to the druggist, but it means unnecessary death to a host of SAP the Shah of Teheran: patients. There has been for long years, and there still is a sus- “Now tell me if you can, picion in the community, that when a question arises between med- Why a man himself encumbers cal etiquette and the patient, the patient suffers. This may be an With wives in plural numbers unjust suspicion, but it is a prevalent one, and the incident referred When he has but one short life ; to certainly strengthens it. And even one small wife The druggist depends upon the doctor for the fattest part of his Can make it seem ten thousand clon- business and so cannot afford to thwart him. If a patient happens gated years of strife.” to bleed to death now and then in consequence, so much the worse Then he swore, the worthy man. for the patient. comicbooks.com