Show The Laugh Cure Laughter has often dissipated disease and preserved life by a sudden effort of nature We are told that the great Erasmus Eras-mus laughed so heartily at a satyrical remark re-mark that he broke a tumor and recovered recov-ered his health In a singular treatise on Laughter Joubert gives two similar instances A patient being very low the physician who had ordered a dose of rhubarb countermanded the medicine which was left on the table A monkey in th room jumping up discovered the goblet and having tasted made a terrible grimace Again putting only his tongue to it he perceived some sweetness of the dissolved manna while the rhubarb had sunk to the bottom Thus emboldened he swallowed the whole but found it such a nauseous potion that after maay strange and fantastic grimaces he ground his teeth in agony and in a violent fury threw the goblet on the floor The whole affair was so ludicrous that the sick man burst into repeated peals of laughter and the recovery of cheerfulness led to health |