Originally Posted by
cjemc
No I only just read it about 20 minutes ago.
Reminds me of the book "Three men in a boat" by Jerome K. Jerome where, at the outset, the story goes
With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all.
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I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch — hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into -...
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I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn’t I got housemaid’s knee? Why this invidious reservation?
Here it is, the book: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/jer.../chapter1.html
That said, seeing a doctor might be a good start, but not to think too much of the various symptoms you might pick up on the Internet.