TYPHOID FEVER. 



A student was called before his class to examine a 

 case of suspected typhoid fever. The student was 

 somewhat embarrassed, and this may have accounted for 

 the somewhat remarkable diagnosis, which ran as fol- 

 lows: 



Case one (this was his first case). Irish parents 

 age 24 not hereditary, brunette tongue, coated and 

 accustomed to working out by the day. Was suddenly 

 seized with vertigo of the head in the occiput near the 

 post-office, no temperature though inward fever, other 

 functions normal. Case diagnosed as dramatic sprain 

 of the main leader of the left leg. The young man 

 wrote the following prescription on the blackboard. 

 Cranberry poultice, veratroidine and milk diet to the 

 affected part. The strain was too much, and the next 

 day the professor said the student himself was threat- 

 ened with typhoid fever, because he had heard him 

 talking in his sleep, and at times singing national airs 

 so familiar to all. The writer was once discharged be- 

 cause he would not give something for this particular 

 feature of a case (singing), but it seemed to him then 

 and does now that if, as claimed by many, Key really 

 wrote the "Star Spangled Banner' 7 on the head of a 

 barrel, the patient had a right to whoop ? er up if he 

 wanted to. The professor thought the student \v,-i> 



