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The Menace
finished, 'you have a spanking pair of kidneys. Your
trouble is here,' tapping my head. 'All the matter with you
is that you have quackeritis and pink imaginitis.'
"'Well I knew that it had something to do with pink,'
I said, and then he laughed until he had to reach for his
handerkerchief. But I couldn't see anything to laugh
about. Doctors have such a provoking way of laughing
when there isn't anything to laugh about.
IT'S ALL IN A NAME.
"Gradually something about my stomach began to get out
of fix. Something seemed to be working loose. After a
meal my stomach felt as if something had tossed in a couple
of marbles. The people at the office began to be disagree-
able. I hadn't noticed in all the years that I had been there,
what unpleasant people we had at the office until my
stomach began to get moody.
"One day my stomach would feel fine and the next day
I could hardly live in the same house with it. It would seize
the slightest pretext to make trouble. If I ate French fried
potatoes it was certain to want them Hollandaise, and if I
ate English waffles it was sure to sulk because I hadn't
taken German pot roast. I could do nothing to please my
stomach.
"Restaurants that I had patronized for years suddenly
began to serve unbearable food. It was a disgrace the
odds and ends brought in and set before me as food. It was
a puzzle to me how they kept their trade. At other tables
were people laughing and making merry; to me it seemed
wrong to laugh in such a den of gloom. I could have stood
the way the people at the office and the rowdies at the
restaurant acted, but when my own family began to get un-
pleasant it was more than I could stand. When I couldn't
stand it any longer the way people were acting, I went to
see my doctor.
"'You have indigestion,' he announced unpleasantly. I
told him that it couldn't be, I just had disagreeable associ-98
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Dixon, Chas. D. (Charles D.). The Menace, an Exposition of Quackery Nostrum Exploitation and Reminiscences of a Country Doctor, book, 1914; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143569/m1/116/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.