Show difficult to inflict pain tha doctor smoked slowly on bis cigar it was plain that ho had something to say 1 I was thinking of my early college days ho said and of a peculiar incident that happened very soon after I 1 began my studies tho professor was instructing the class one day on the corpuscles corpus cles of the blood in order to get bome fresh blood for examination each student was ordered to tie a rag around his forefinger and strike the top of the finger suddenly with a needle with sufficient force to draw blood seems easy 4 do you know there a man in the class that did it at tho first attempt it was funny to watch some of choso embryo surgeons loiso poiso the needle with a determined air and launch it to within a hair space 0 the flesh and there stop dead others tried to force the needle in slowly but paused very shortly with an expression of pain bommen to that of an amputation I 1 myself aavo it up as a bad job and hacked a cavity in my thumb with a penknife and found it easier the fact that we were very young and inexperienced is no explanation for this peculiarity as I 1 have since found by personal almost everybody exhibited the same to inflicting pain in that manner try it yourself the other man tried and succeeded on the fourth trial now york sun |