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Show SYMPTOMS PLAIN TO HIM Elderly Medical Man Had His Own Idea of Diagnosing Case in Which He Was Interested. "What is your diagnosis?" asked the older physician of his young confrere, con-frere, who is earnest but inexperienced, inexperi-enced, and who has been called in consultation. "Well," says the younger medico, "there doesn't seem to be much the matter. The patient has a slight fever and some light tightness of the chest. 1 should say there was nothing more than a cold bothering him." "My boy," said the older man, kindly, kind-ly, "you have gone about it wrong. Note these symptoms: A white marble mar-ble stairway in the entrance-hall, gold furniture in the parlor, cut-glass and silver galore in the dining room, two automobiles in the side yard, a solid mahogany " "But what has that got to do with the sickness of Mr. Gumpurse?" "It has lots to do with it. The man has congestion of the bank account, and the proper move for us to make is to relieve that as much as possible." |