WHAT IS YOUR SPECTRE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2050, 24 May 1890, Page 3

WHAT IS YOUR SPECTRE.

Most people have one b*le noir which to them is the one harrowing evil to be avoided. One man dreads a fire, another the smallpox, a third a fever and so on. Unfortunately there are enough ills in the world to furnish to everyone a full-grown spectre. A New York physician was telling the writer of his first and last experience with Asiatic cholera. If there was one thing which he did not want to meet, in fact, had a horror of, it was cholera. He had attended coses of smallpox unnumbered over 600 patients in one epidemic. He has wrestled successfully with contagious and deadly diseases of all kinds and they bad no fears for him. But cholera he had never seen and oho'era be had no intention of willingly facing. This sentiment he nursed so carefully chat it became a part of his disposition. In the course of his travels once he found himself in Hong Kong. Being a physician he naturally desired to make a tour of the hospitals there, but he did not forget to impress on the mind of a fellow disciple of Esculapius, who was his host and guide, that he wanted to see everything worth seeing except cholera. At cholera he drew he drew a broad and thick line. In going the rounds of one of the hospitals his escort for the Mm” being was a “ fresh” young Scotchman. The cholera warning was again repeate I. Iho two came' to a man who was evidently dying. The American physician had never b-Tore seen a similar case and at once became intereeled in the sufferer. He examined him carefu'ly, placed bis ear on the man’s chest to catch the flattering of his heart, felt his weak-n----ing pulpe, and studied the pupi s of the eyes. When be s o d np the Scotch, man asked him what th' 1 case was, •* I never saw a similar case,” answered the Ara°rican, “ but if if I did not know that you would not lead me to a case of cholera I should say that this was cholera 1 ” “By St, Andra, mao, ye’re richt I ” cried the Scotchman, And the American ? Tie did just what you would have done, He got away from that hospital and then took quinine till his went round like a buzz-saw. He did not catch the cholera, but he is still waiting to meet the Scotchman.—New York Tribune.