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pamphlet entitled `16 to 1; or the
Poor Man's Vade-Mecum.'
`` `Madam' said I`it is clear to me that your husband is afflicted with
catalogitis.'
``At this the poor woman went into hystericsbewailing that she
should have lived to see the object of her affection the victim of a malady
so grievous as to require a Greek name. When she became calmer I
explained to her that the malady was by no means fataland that it yielded
readily to treatment.''
``Whatin plain terms'' asked Judge Methuen``is catalogitis?''
``I will explain briefly'' answered the doctor. ``You must know first
that every perfect human being is provided with two sets of bowels; he has
physical bowels and intellectual bowelsthe brain being the latter.
Hippocrates (since whose time the science of medicine has not advanced
even the two stadiafive parasangs of Xenophon)-- HippocratesI say
discovered that the brain is subject to those very same diseases to which
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the other and inferior bowels are liable.
``Galen confirmed this discovery and he records a case (Lib. xi.p.
318) wherein there were exhibited in the intellectual bowels symptoms
similar to those we find in appendicitis. The brain is wrought into certain
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