Cured; the 70 adventures of a dyspeptic . course, I consented; it would be great in pajamas, a blanket and a pair of slipperson my feet, I was wheeled down to the lecture-room. There Jenkins, looking as wise as anowl, introduced me to the class of about of the students was a pretty, black-eyedgirl, who hailed from Kentucky (as I after-wards ascertained). I made up my mind toraise no objection to her taking my pulse evenif she were not yet a doctor. Jenkins laid meout on a couch with the skill of a bag mandisplaying his samples, and took off my pajamacoat. I was n
Cured; the 70 adventures of a dyspeptic . course, I consented; it would be great in pajamas, a blanket and a pair of slipperson my feet, I was wheeled down to the lecture-room. There Jenkins, looking as wise as anowl, introduced me to the class of about of the students was a pretty, black-eyedgirl, who hailed from Kentucky (as I after-wards ascertained). I made up my mind toraise no objection to her taking my pulse evenif she were not yet a doctor. Jenkins laid meout on a couch with the skill of a bag mandisplaying his samples, and took off my pajamacoat. I was not embarrassed, but the Kentuckygirl flushed slightly as I gazed at her. Then Ibegan to blush on my chest, whereupon Jenkinscalled attention to it. The students gatheredaround me whilst Jenkins discoursed on dilatedstomachs. He wished to prove that a stomachmay be dilated by the gaseous distensionmethod without the stomachs being dilatedpermanently. It was the same old experiment, and the en-tire class laughed at the wry face I made when. CURED 211 I swallowed the second potion. Jenkinswhipped out his stethoscope and prepared totake notes on the balloon ascension my stomachwas about to make. But a surprising thinghappened. I felt neither distension nor more than if I had taken a glass of soda!Jenkins told the class to listen to my stomach,and at once a whole battery of stethoscopeswere thrown over the gastric border. But therewas no violent distension. Jenkins, with a dis-appointed and surprised expression, admittedthat the demonstration had been a failure. Hewhispered to me, Thats mighty good for you;youve improved a lot. Before letting me go,Jenkins showed the students how to demon-strate a stricture of the esophagus. He mademe swallow a few ounces of water. With astop-watch in hand and a stethoscope over myepigastrium, he noted the time it took before heheard the water splash into my of the students put their fingers on mythroat as I swallowed, and I
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