MORBUS SABBATICUS OR SUNDAY SICKNESS.

Waiapu Church Times, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 August 1907, Page 14

MORBUS SABBATICUS OR SUNDAY SICKNESS.

The disease is peculiar to Church people, and the attack comes on suddenly every Sunday morning. No symptoms are felt on Saturday evening_; the patient sleeps well, awakes feeling well, eats a hearty breakfast ; but about Church time the attack comes on, and continues till service is over for the morning ; at dinner the patient feels easier and makes a good meal. In the afternoon the patient feels so much better that he can take a walk, talk politics, and read the newspapers. His tea is taken with quite a relish, but another sudden attack comes on when the bell rings for evensong, and he stays at home, retires early to rest, sleeps well, and wakes up on Monday morning as well as can be. No further symptoms appear till the following Sunday. Its chief peculiarities are : — 1. Never appears except on Sundays and only lasts 24 hours. 2. Symptoms vary, but never affect sleep, meals, or pleasure. 3. No physician is ever called m. 4. Always proves fatal m the end —to the soul. 5. It is becoming fearfully prevalent. 6. Religion, taken every day "m the week m doses, usually staves off the Sunday attack. 7. Only remedy discovered yet is Prayer, which seems to kill the bacillus, and saves the patient from premature death.— Exchange.