Show r t fj ES J 4 I THEIR MODE OF LIFE tl 1 t I I HY BY JOHN W HARRINGTON J Coi right Mil 1301 by J I W Harrington It is the trade of ot the hospital fakir aUr to t fem ni ill Every ery hospital in th thI the I States kno d him and ht h will willI il ill I get into tn the war wari a where the be bela J are i clean dea n and the board is free as a a long as asti ti human nature is III prone to deceive the he V ital tal fakir plies his hi calling with the enthusiasm of the tramp a His Ris Is life lite holds hotch a charm whit h is all its own wn Its jiri 5 are board lodging lod and some sometimes some times a little alcohol It fascinates g the stimulator of strange too 1 cj MSO He Is ys s running liat at la lat s st t him hui h I III the really delightful risk ri k of be beng beill benig ng nig ill f und out He will permit the tar Mir ir goons he to do dom e e him with dl gu nix flux turf ture tu he will undergo ta m nt would i make a strong man un Hi Ii ra rather her than suffer detection as an all au arrant heaL He also likes the ut hi h ii h ht re ci es ea for it what hat ex ci cr i J onal vanity anity he e may have Ih c to tote toIe toe te Ie e interested and sometimes anxious ians over him brug struggling rug gling to to reconcile his often tory t ury symptoms H spital fakirs are arc it Jf f two 10 kinds kind the and the ign int mt The I he learned cne may have hae elV an ap apprenticeship as a drug t Ik l rk or a i tie He may have been an oP oPre e ls 1 boy y t fr r K a n or he may ma liae ha at one ne De tune tone actually studied The rhe cou tiu tiuI u I fakir generally readies reea n hm his hi de Ie degraded degraded graded condition through u t liquor or ur morphine The i Ignorant I simulator of or just takes a usually u u ut t ally Hy avail for lor be h l m pAses The he even of ot the ine medical ro roand roand roand and js is pro thrust f forth rth rom the hospital shelter Into j a cold worM world I Th re are professional nal fal ir nho ho take tike a pride in a an afi their u lh One ine f the known of et f them bom boms m LB s i ral yearS ears ago agu L lC Ce lf hi i i y He Ht had at i is c irmand 1 a aj I j tn of St f reminiscence w a et h ve mad as entertaining Look p I som um error of a country surgeon n who iho I attempted to set the man ma boUen broen arm aim 1 Ith eIth ut nt the necessary appliances Hl the thea theat I 1 fakir was set up for tiLe lite t is u jin an tui voa at t I Ih q tomi al a curiosity U i arri arnt utter t it hs h d l b een set net failed to unite limtt il ly y There was as a union c f I un The man who g ia la td under the name of Harmon Hannan could euld throw o his s member about at any angle u He lie r c ud u reach r hO around the small of gh his S I I back baik and caress the back o hi hii head headIn h ad adIn I In audition to this li hm nt he bp 1 had the power to un tin up ilu lI his lila pul pule at atvill atwill atI I I will vill ill M B tb some means meD which the tit rh l FK tans could never neer und 1 he te I fluid could n raeh h a number ol o hart haart beats ats I which would hardly ave seen lt Fible sible f ble in a normal human humin hum n being He Heas Heas vas as such an interesting fakir that boa hos hospitals 1 received him gladly in ord r that t the he physicians lans ne might sho JT N him in tn Dr E K J I Jin of jf New Nc Turk Yerk rk Mtv liv I w was a the to discover er r him himlie I He lie ha has hils a been the H t of r ss In clinics all al over oer the country nry I A of Diseases I Cne 1 ne of the staining examples of the g craft ot at c hospital taking faking is a dis dissimulator disc dissimulator c simulator of genius enit named He can at will be stricken with nearly arly arIy every malady known to tot toI ton t n ien e One of his special ties is an angina anI I I gina gnia in which rol role he is a ai at t i mutate actor He can ean without t I ui l arat effort eort develop d op a deathlike t pallu His pulse flutters rs and his fea lea features features tures turea assume the expression ion of o a man M who hi i f feels feets els that he is labout about to die Gra Gre Graham Graham ham takes keen kren delight in ins s saluting physicians who disco r his hlas i i fraud iud with vituperation which is far fart t fr urn feeble tebie le Pulse and even tempera temperature Lure ture are ire under his b l control and he has hasI hasI I the fae of ot regulating every muscle I i tr it fa fae e and an body bod Graham like sev BeV BeVIe I oral otter tiler u well nh known exemplars of his Ie f ass was originally a dug clerk cleric who I had a drug druy fiend liend It is his bis i habit ha to on ID the staff stall of every i 1 It tat tal In the large cities clUes which he JK i isit Asit iU His method is to fall fail in cen con in Ie some oI street in the central pirt lJ rt of lf the city and after having re d in a hospital as long hung as his de do is ia 1 DI to go to the th urban outskirts and become grievously tor tur in mind and body He lie thus K guts ts i L chance to spend a few days in inu u h of uI the th smaller hospitals It is isaid said bud that hat he is still through the th country cOO exhibiting his choice b l ool col I lo lc um of symptoms to th the medical fra y lever leer as the average hospital fakir is it in his art he most must eventually be aught taught The physician knows of many b symptoms which can not be consist eon consistently feigned The members member of the guild who whon van rn control their pulses pUI es and andt andl l ij t have the ever present nt knowledge and the presence pre o of mind to keep up the appearances of o illness ilIne indefinitely are art t few human instinct the awkward awkard fakir at once and the detection of even the 1111 st accomplished one UDe is Ii only a mat it tr r of time There The a appeared in a Buffalo hospital 6 5 seral eral years year ago a man mall respectably diesa leSS il d who told a story atory of hard bard luck ai i ill III health He had be he said a am ma malad malady lad lady o the stomach which made J life lite unendurable to hint him The physicians did everything in their power for him Th finally decided that tot there was wu wasi i 1 Mining thing wrong with any of his lata organs ant and they the planned ed to get rW of 0 Mm him himMl Mj Ml oM friend II said the chief of staff 4 1 I think that tt you yuu need exercise Sup pus pos that you take that broom and andS sneer S tto tae thO hall The patient swept sel the halt Ita h once and andI v vien I en tile the physician told him to begin begina a nil II oer 0 again n he threw th down the broom mom in at I 1 aiR ain iR through he said I am on onto onto n nto to your yur game gain and you ou are on to mine Frequently the fakir is ill piled pHed with ap l er and tonics wm d df develop deveo a ara ravenous ra eno hunger The physicians phy then f I 2 git give git e him bum barely enough food to ass sus sustain tain tam life and he skips y a Favorite Fake Bake f Probably the tho disease ea most moat often orten counterfeited U Is epilepsy Many lany of the thet fakirs select prominent J street corners t 4 in th the cities dUell where they chuck a dummy to use their own vernacular it The purpose e is twofold The TIlt s mpa 1 crowd which collects coU falls faUs an prey jurey I y to the KerM partner r v who h Is a professional ant and an aV a ar PI k pocket The fakir him hims s lf If is ported to a hospital where if he has hl good luck he lie may be enter entertained entertained tamed for a while free of cost co t Very Ver often however the epileptic forgets to tou u observe ob erv some of Q the simple details It the man with a false fit lit straightens out his hl thumbs when he be helenc lenc hes his fists lists in convulsions The Theman Theman Theman man w who ho has hag a genuine e attack of epi c lepa lepsy always has his hie thumbs tightly in Jh closed do in m the fist list Many a fakir has been brett Ingloriously ushered out of ofa a hos hospital hospital pital he has neglected neg this simple Dimple thumb rule The Fhe hurler hurle of false fe 1 fits generally tarries carries in his Locket a Ii emelI quantity qu of soap which he uses wies to represent ent froth at the mouth month while h gnashes his teeth It is i nt for the fakir if a wHy wily physician phy a st saponaceous om pound in the 1 epileptics klI waistcoat pocket ket ketMan ManY Man of o the craft pretend to be in Iii a state tate of coma The They are art not so 80 far Kinf however that they cannot near hear u n fl They often have bae to lii I remarks mark about 5 t en M to I 0 knives es and quantities of blood which ire are It s C t to flow They will Rill Jim UH until they fee tee i ICI sc 1 I toying around their t wrists Under Uncle such trying dr ole they have hare berti 10 to tou u lear the operating t le e with Io a sin single gle le bound This jm knife f test aner Wy Succeeds succeeds where ordeals ordea ala C Paralysis is regarded as u a luxury b the hospital fakir The Tb skilled me hesitates to attempt it but Ut the If HI ho hobo bt I cv ill rush ruh into a state of par pars paraL their lint lim where knowing knoWD wais aL as s dI 4 1 1 1 8 i fear to tread t Often otta men with wUk normal temperatures respiration tion and aDd normal pulses praise pu have ve bad had the shallow ballow effrontery to f paralysis The prick of a pin or the sodden appU application cation of an electrode is t to dots d abuse their minds of 01 the b that they are fooling the surgeons Fatal Imaginary R IR There are many persons pe who wIto affect hydrophobia Very ery often they a sea aN e in such a state Rate of hris that tat t they be liMe here they haV have lIMn best by bya a dog doe There sk ight to a prominent New York City Ity hospital a year or so ago so a veterinary surgeon who 00 showed some symptoms of hydro hydrophobia phobia hobi He said aid id that he had gone to visit a friend who woo was wu tn 11 He lIe found upon his arrival that the tb invalid inv had died cUed in the tile night nt He averred that a ae large e mastiff stood tood guard over the body The animal attacked attached him The surgeons could see lee no marks of canine teeth The patient threw himself into I convulsions barked like s a dog and then choked bolted and gsg P gagged d At M the tile sight of water ater He suM said that he had been bitten the day before ort he was s brought to the institution The surgeons a eon con concluded eluded that he was shamming sha m when they saw him devour a full tuU meal with greet great relish for hydrophobia constricts eon the glottis and prevents the patient from swallowing From a friend of the veterinarian who visited the institution institution tion later laier I ier the surgeons learned that the story of the mastiff ma was waa a myth The Theman Theman Theman man was simply hysterical He Rb H made so much noise nol e that he w was s sent to the alcoholic ward Wh where ere his hill l arking would not disturb the patients as a much muchas I as ag in the division where fie he was w placed The strangest part of o the wry tory h is that three hours later the tile stan man died be believing believing believing lieving to the last that he hail bed hydro hydra hydrophobia phobia I There was taken to a hospital ho aI in i New York City two years ago a boy bo 1 w who ho barked like a dog dOC The Tho surgeons i found he was merely hysterical Whenever he barked they made liberal use of an electric battery He was cured after several applications and sad he has never had bad any desire to bark since discharge dl from rom the hospital he He had never been bitten by a dog doc but had caught can all the hydrophobia he be had from front reading of mad dog bites in the newspapers Within a few ew blocks of a 11 large city hospital there was a hostler hoarier a tall broad shouldered fellow who got IrOt the angina an na pectoris habit He was for a month or so taken in an ambulance to the hospital pital bo every three days ys The Th surgeons learned his name and pedigree gree t by y rote rate and aDd gave hint him stomach pump treatment which effectually dissuaded him from riding ridin In ambulances ambulances lances He did not successfully simu simulate simulate late la te a single symptom of the disease dl ea yet he always insisted Isted that tbt he had bad it itHe itHe itHe He is still sWI plying his hili vocation as hostler hustler and aDd is a highly h healthy organ organIsm organism Ism Jam I Heroic Remedies for fsr Fakirs There is not DOt a more effective remedy I for tor faking than the stomach pump Many a man sian who pretends to have ve all alt kinds of strange diseases will wilt waken aken under this heroic treatment arc ar lve ie the hospital where it is employed em a aIde wide Ide berth forever Afterwards remedy is especially tf cf in the case f f persons v no de do desire desire sire hospital lodging from Saturday night until the following Monday Mm flY morning It is also helpful n se e of f prisoners who woo to avoid going to the hp workhouse for five days make su suh l ch chI h howling declarations v f nl ery im t t the I keeper of the prison tails calls all a sa a umbu I lance Ince and ships them to the hospital bo to get set rid of them Very often otten the prison fakir gains his point and stays slays in a cot cit until his workhouse sentence has hasa I elapsed a There are some of the guild who are areso aret areso I t so 80 devoted to their supposed ills that tha t I I the stomach pumps and drastic and bitter hitter medicines have no terrors for forth I them th m There was WU once onoe OD e a fakir fahir who ho for eight ht days submitted to doses es of quinine ipecac I and Kv Ev Every ry morning his bis stomach was washed uh OUt OIK an attention which is hi worse than ten devils of seasickness One day there were so many bones to set that he was w overlooked Doctor Dector came a voice Yoi from the cot eat where he lay I have been neglected led Nobody gave me my toy medicine and I 1 get my stomach h washed Many of the fakirs fakira burn themselves superficially with carbolic acM acid band bandage bandage age the burned arm or leg teg and then hurry to a hospital with a pitiful story of accident nt The surgeons su generally 0 send such persons Jer ons to the dispensaries Some Seine men and women despairing dea rinK on account a nt of or hunger go 0 to the hospitals hospital ho and d declare that they the are ill III The physicians find it very difficult to diagnose diagnose nose the malady of these theae unfortunate and fakirs for the rea reason son that they the feign no symptoms They have hae genuine caseb casell of general misery These Thee persons ons per are often otten detained for weeks It is not oot an infrequent thing for them to get t well and strong trong under hospital care are and then go out and make tusks a successful tight light in the battle of life Many of the professional fakirs by reason of their devotion to their call lug ing develop nervous disorders Soine Sone So e of them I actually become hypochondriacs hypochondriacs hypochondriacs There have been n cases caes on re ord where w ihs Die r who ho has feigned disease d fIe has JIa become tIa a sufferer su from the i i malady which be he has successfully counterfeited Nature frequently I upon such sub a one a terrible retribution There are in the almshouses outcasts j who were once une successful hospital I fakirs They are like the beggar be r w who I affected blindness until his eyeballs were seared ared and useless Many of the men who scheme to be befool l I fool ambulance surgeons have origin originally originally ally nervous disorders dl They are in an hysterical condition which gives them thema thenia a facility in feigning misery ery mt to which a person in normal health could rould ne nev never r attain There are those who after a study stud of sj symptom s 8 can actually hyp hn hypnotize noti themselves into a belief that ave are suffering from tile the diseases of ef 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