Show SniUIATI IJSJS STRANGE CASES Jinr WITH BV 1llYSlCIAKS ANA V iTJIIIs AN-A man apinrently great bodi ly pain was found lying upon Use sidewalk 11t Front Il Chestnut l streets by a policvmau The man had fallen afs in a heap and his tory was that he had been waylaid ana beaten A patrol wagon was summoned but when an attempt was made to place him In the vehicle ve-hicle he complained of such ci iiulslte pain it was found necessary to discard hill rro Onnec amid to carry the man on a statelier to a hospital On arriving at the latter institution he was careful v removed from the stretcher to a cot in the receiving ward and although handled very tenderly Use change of position seemed to aggravate his suffering Singularly enough when the surgeon made an examination it was found that when a pin was stuck In any portion of the mans body below the neck lie apparently failed to feel it and the natural conclusion con-clusion under the circumstances was that hIS had suffered a spinal injury It was then proposed to place the patient under an oozes thctic with the view of performing an operation but wlicu the man heard this he lumped uGtV ien cot and darted quickly out of tho hospital hos-pital gate and was soon lost to view Ue had been ptylps posuni but for what reason w ill perhaps never be known TO AVOID TilE DIIAIT Such cases arc not infrequently met with by physicians III their regular practice and at ho pl lila and other charitable Institutions Institu-tions Kilher to excite sympathy or from othcy motives vple sometimes some-times cultivate the power of simulating simu-lating diseases Thcso Individuals arc knowu to the medical profession as malingerers and they become particularly numerous on certain occasion During the civil war at the time conscriptions were made it was surprising loses the number tf WeiR tfel of ablebodied men limping II along with cants and apparently suffering with riicuniatLm or other crippling aliment While it li not always easy even for au expert doctor to detect between real and simulated disease yet ho can generally dls tlligulMi bttueen IUg genuine and feigned rheumatism by the manner In which a man plants his cane ou the i avement To understand the difference it is only ueceary to watch a man who carrier a cane to as > ht him In walking amid one who flourishes a cane fur pleasure Among the disorders generally simulated are fainting and epller y Uoth have been so well counterfeited counter-feited as to have been mistaken fur genuine cases It tf only when heroic measures are propoted that the imi > osUIou is disclosed Nut long since an up tOWII physician while muusslmoz an ouen air relhIoii meeting on Rroaa Street had his attention attract to a middleaged noman apparently suffering I with n frF b an epileptic attack She wo mr rounded iy a group of symiotlulic men and womeu mid one of the hitter had procured from a migh lt ldrn Iioriug residence a pinch of suit use woman recovered consciousness conscious-ness however without the uv of the latter remedy Ou the following Sunday the physician 1 phy-sician noticed the same woman in church and thinking I she might IK seized with another spell took n seat several leave from her Sure enough an attack came ou to lit discomfiture of a number of ner TOU3 eople > The poor oman wax carried out to the votibule of the church and the physician followed TboMeiuinscpllcptlcseizu l rupasx j i Offtn about five minuto I JEldNINd JIKAlNKSS I Time next Sunday there was a rextitionoftbeattiik The woman I who was a stranger tu the congregation congrega-tion was again taken to the iMi bulc and tho physician who hd previously atteniletl her was again I called upon Thinking that the attack at-tack was simulated he Irolsl that settee should be prucureil and the woman carriiil through the street toa policvtation I III a twllll llng the woman sprang from the chair in which she had been placed hurried from the building and ha not since appeared at the church One f the mtUiodj adopted to mWead h to feign deafnej This Is one of list tricks reported to by men who desire to avoid Ulng placed OlIjurlI Generally however how-ever the judges are able to fathom time deception and by I the use of a little strategem It las easily exposed I Men who simulate deafness will cLvp au ear in the palm of the hand and lean forward as though tho auditory nerves were strained to catch what was said In an unguarded un-guarded moment the Mipi seU deaf man is io a question in mi or dinary tone to which lie generally l replies and his deception is unmasked un-masked As a rule however illness and other physical disabilities are simulated simu-lated by eople 1 who 1 wish 1 to avoid work or who desire to obtain admission ad-mission to some institution where they may live without cost to them selves and Homctlmes by convicts with the holo of Iwtttring their condition In fact very many diseases i dis-eases are feigned but in the hands of a skilful physician they are soon exiiotcd A common method of simulating I apoplexy fs by falling down as if deprived of sensation and consciousness Powerful stimulants stimu-lants an electric hock the application applica-tion of hot water or an irritation of the nostriLs quickly delect the Im osltion 1laladelplia tedyir |