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Folkard mentions an instance in Cuba where, "thirteen cloves of garlic at the end of a cord, worn round the neck for thirteen days, are considered a safeguard against jaundice."
"No, kid," he answered, "if I was peeved at you, you'd learn it without askin' questions." He turned slowly away. "Maybe I got jaundice, boys," he said to the crowd, "but it seems to me I see something kind of yellow around here!" The delightful subtlety of this remark roused another side-shaking burst of merriment.
Went to No. 10 C.C.S. to see if Ellis' brother of the 7th Battalion had been wounded no news of him but arranged to have any information telephoned, and that he be sent for by Captain Stokes saw the spirochaete of epidemic jaundice. General Porter there, and chatted to him for a minute. On the way back we stopped at Mt. Rouge and saw the German lines.
To-day he's in the City, or one of the squares. Lady Edbury's ah! detained in town with the jaundice or toothache. He said he was sending to France for a dentist: or was it Germany, for some lady's eyes? I am sure I don't know. Well or ill, so long as you're anything to him, he will abound. Pocket and purse! You know him by this time, Mr. Harry. Oh, my heart!
His love distressed his liver, and gave him a jaundice once or twice, but where his love yields its poor ghost to his philosophy, yours begins its labours. That everlasting Horace! He is the versifier of the cushioned enemy, not of us who march along flinty ways: the piper of the bourgeois in soul, poet of the conforming unbelievers!
His young face changed. Persons about the courts were sometimes frightened as they looked at his viperish, flat head, his slit mouth, his eyes gleaming through glasses, and heard his sharp, persistent voice which rasped their nerves. His muddy skin, with its sickly tones of green and yellow, expressed the jaundice of his balked ambition, his perpetual disappointments and his hidden wretchedness.
The last attack showed few well-defined delusions, as patient was in a bewildered and incoherent state. One statement is characteristic: if patient had remained in Denmark, he might have inherited the throne. The autopsy showed most extensive arteriosclerosis, including basal cerebral. Death from general anasarca and jaundice.
I do but mention it; the intensity and daily deepening of the jaundice, the fruitlessness of all treatment, and the grave illness of the child, even though no bleeding should occur, render it impossible to confound this hopeless condition with the trivial ailment of which I have been speaking.
In the dreary waste of speculative discussion it is cheering, however, to observe Gilbert's positive recognition of the sphere of percussion indicated in the passage: "Et venter percussus sonat ad modum utris semipleni aqua et venta." Ycteritia or jaundice receives equally thorough discussion through eight weary pages, including the usual polypharmacal treatment.
We also give quantities of luncheons and teas, and are sick of going to each other's entertainments; yet we're so furious if there's anything we're not invited to, we nearly get jaundice. I do myself though I hate running about promiscuously; and I spend hours thinking up ingenious lies to squeeze out of accepting invitations I'd have been ill with rage not to get.
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