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...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...displace the generating fluids. However, the interior of the head concerns physicians. As for the exterior, bring on 92 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birott...

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...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ...et, but positively luscious—a glance akin to the mixture which even clever physicians have to render palatable before they can induce a hesitant patie...

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...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...ful that they used to frighten the timid old gentleman her father, and the physicians declared his fits always occurred after one of her Ladyship’s se... ...y was saved, actually saved, by calomel, freely administered, when all the physicians in Paris had given the dear child up. And then she mentioned how... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- 658 V anity Fair male will permit the word breeches to be pro...

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...of England, half cured and very weak, determined to embark in spite of his physicians, and did so. The enemy’s vessels hats retired; so, at six o’cloc... ...for Forges only on the 6th of July. On Wednesday, the 21st of August, four physicians saw the King, but took care to do nothing except praise Fagon, w... ... Thursday, the 22nd of August, the King was still worse. He saw four other physicians, who, like the first four, did nothing but admire the learned an... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...ddi- tion to the domestics who served me, one of the best and most skilful physicians in Europe, who, moreover, was capital com- pany, and who did not... ...ll that he was obliged to have assistance. The most celebrated doctors and physicians were called in, with great secrecy. They shook their heads, and ...

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... to be expected from his usual somewhat worldly manners. A month since the physicians had named four weeks as the outside period during which breath c... ...be supported within the body of the dying man. At the end of the month the physicians wondered, and named another fort- night. The old man lived on wi... ...find a sufficiency of proper pabulum. Just then there was no talk of a new American president. No won- derful tragedies had occurred on railway trains...

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...of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fa... ...re than he himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermiss... ...ccordingly at- tended; but it was upon the same footing on which the first physicians are usually summoned to the bedside of some dy- ing man of rank;...

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...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha... ... continued to attend him, and the treatment was approved afterwards by the physicians consulted. All the clergy took their part in nursing, and the Me...

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... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w... ...now.’ She had been, by her master’s orders, exam- ined by two of the chief physicians of the kingdom, ‘baron- ets both.’ They advised total rest. As f...

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...ewport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the American Aristocracy. As a rule they spent a part of every Sab bath—after ... ...not get any great pleasure out of them, as a rule. Now the trouble with an American paper is that it has no discrimination; it rakes the whole earth f... ...s it strike you? 167 Mark Twain HOW TO TELL A STORY The Humorous Story an American Development.—Its Dif ference from Comic and Witty Stories I DO ... ...ind—the humorous. I will talk mainly about that one. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humoro... ...m. Will the reader longer marvel at the brutal ignorance that pervades the American nation when we tell him that we are informed upon perfectly good a... ...p Bromley, in the 50th year of his age. Affliction sore long time he bore, Physicians were in vain— Till God at last did hear him mourn, And eased him...

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...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...mitate ten years hence this practice of the English, if the clergy and the physicians will but give them leave to do it; or possibly our countrymen ma... ...ve professions. What is the reason why our magistrates, our law- yers, our physicians, and a great number of the clergy, are abler scholars, have a fi...

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...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...s. That unequaled spirit of enterprise, which signalizes the genius of the American merchants and naviga- tors, and which is in itself an inexhaustibl... ...nvites and our interests prompt us to aim at an ascendant in the system of American affairs. The world may politically, as well as geographically, be ... ...ger, after coolly revolving his situation, and the characters of different physicians, selects and calls in such of them as he judges most capable of ... ... capable of administering relief, and best entitled to his confidence. The physicians attend; the case of the patient is carefully examined; a consult...

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...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ...cuniary recompence, therefore, of painters and sculp- tors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more liberal; and it is so accordingly. The pr... ...me manner as that upon gold, or to give up working the greater part of the American mines which are now wrought. The gradual increase of the demand fo... ... be uncertain, whether, to the general market of Europe, the whole mass of American gold comes at a price nearer to the lowest for which it is possibl... ...portant, and some of the most frivolous professions; church- men, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, op... ...in which this natural distribution of things is violated. Some speculative physicians seem to have imagined that the health of the human body could be... ... first class, and that their encouragement, as well as that of lawyers and physicians, may safely be entrusted to the liber- ality of individuals, who...

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...ble effects of such weather. Johnson. ‘Sir, this is all imagination, which physicians encourage; for man lives in air, as a fish lives in water; so th... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments... ...not but be very obnoxious to Johnson, for he was not only a patriot but an American. He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of... ...lancholy; and I mentioned to him a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantage... ...read too grave a trea- tise. There is a general levity in the age. We have physicians now with bag-wigs; may we not have airy divines, at least somewh... ... bring Dr. Heberden; and I sent to Dr. Brocklesby, who is my neighbour. My physicians are very friendly, and give me great hopes; but you may imagine ... ...of former years. In consequence of Johnson’s request that I should ask our physicians about his case, and desire Sir Alexander Dick to send his opinio...

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... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...rgans,—not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. The laws of disease, physicians say, are as beautiful as the laws of health. Our philosophy is a... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...avior were as easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American population. When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters, though he b... ... Punic, in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living. In like manner we see literature best ... ... Temperament puts all di- vinity to rout. I know the mental proclivity of physicians. I hear the chuckle of the phrenologists. Theoretic kid- nappers... ...he grossest ignorance does not disgust like this impudent knowingness. The physicians say they are not material- ists; but they are:—Spirit is matter ... ...l this mighty order grew.’—’A very unreasonable postulate,’ said the meta- physicians, ‘and a plain begging of the question. Could you not prevail to ...

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...was not long after Captain Patten’s visit that Cap- tain Colquhoun, of the American brig Betsey, touched at the largest of the islands for the purpose... ...1, a Captain Haywood, in the Nereus, visited Tristan. He found there three Americans, who were residing upon the island to prepare sealskins and oil. ... ...ound was traced over, with equal care, in 1822, by Captain Johnson, of the American schooner Henry, and by Captain Morrell in the American schooner Wa... ... the south. On the 11th of January, 1823, Captain Benjamin Morrell, of the American schooner Wasp, sailed from Kerguelen’s Land with a view of penetra... ...arly this morning we had the misfortune to lose a man overboard. He was an American named Peter Vredenburgh, a native of New Y ork, and was one of the... ...ing recurrence, defying alike the knowledge and the great exertions of her physicians. With the increase of the chronic disease which had thus, appare... ...where was deposited a decanter of light wine which had been ordered by her physicians, and hastened across the chamber to procure it. But, as I steppe...

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...trangulation grew worse, more remedies were tried, and one of the greatest physicians of the day was called in, but only to make unavailing efforts. C... ...me coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would show me the Americans,” she said. “Why was it, mother? I thought Americans were like th... ...es, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I know one was Diana, because she had a bow and quiver. I wa... ...hen the family were alone, than of finding himself in the midst of what an American guest had called Mrs. Brownlow’s surprise parties. They were 451 ... ... her opinion when, at the end of a very curious speculation about primeval American civilisation, Captain Evelyn and Miss Brownlow were dis- covered s... ...f the previous training that Friar had brought from Oxford. Professors and physicians wrote his mother notes to express their satisfaction at the care... ...nd with success, though he had only as yet brought a portion of his fellow physicians to accept his system. Lucas had then explained as much as was ne... ...ld ?” “They watched me so, and whenever I was making friends with any nice American girl, they always rattled me off some- where else. I never did und... ...careful not to overtask himself, but John made him see one of the greatest physicians in New York, to whom Dr. Medlicott had sent letters of introduct...

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... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...God:” God’s Breath in Man is the title of the chief work of our best known American mystic (Thomas Lake Harris), and in cer- tain non-Christian countr... ...o practical fruits, and the ex- tremely practical turn of character of the American people has never been better shown than by the fact that this, the... ...any cases are of diseases that have been diagnosed and treated by the best physicians of the country, or which prominent hospitals have tried their ha... ...whole ghostly train of fateful shapes which our fellow-men, and especially physicians, are ready to help us conjure up, an array worthy to rank with B...

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...y sometimes see the curious circular nests of the Lamprey Eel, Petromyzon Americanus, the American Stone Sucker, as large as a cart wheel, a foot or ... ...d, and referring him to some new ge nealogy. “Son of——and——. He aided the Americans to gain their independence, instructed mankind in economy, and dr... ...moral grandeur and sub limity akin to those of his own Scriptures. T o an American reader, who, by the advantage of his posi tion, can see over that... ...red Alexander Henry’s Adventures here, as a sort of classic among books of American travel. It contains scenery and rough sketching of men and inciden... ...; the relic of a twilight antediluvian age which yet inhabits these bright American rivers with us Yankees. There is something vener able in this mel... ...true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men. Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common g...

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...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...acy to acquire territory out of which slave states might be formed for the American Union. Even if the annexation itself could be justified, the manne... ...ently in order to force Mexico to initiate war. It is to the credit of the American nation, however, that after conquering Mexico, and while practical... ...ng probably less than one hun- dred souls. There was, in addition, a small American trading post, at which goods were sold to Mexican smugglers. All g... ...y in their section of the State. It embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and some men of ...

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...tween Patrick and the sideboard. ‘Our lawyers have us inside out, like our physicians,’ Mr. Adister resumed, talking to blunt his impatience for a pri... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu...

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... bodies. Shall it be provided by law that they must consult none but Roman physicians, and shall everyone be bound to live according to their prescrip... ...rived of his terrestrial enjoyments upon account of his religion. Not even Americans, subjected unto a Christian prince, are to be punished either in ...

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..., even in Europe; and which has never been quoted, to my knowledge, by any American — if we except, perhaps, the author of the “Curiosities of America... ...y increasing sound, like the moan- ing of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie; and at the same moment I perceived that what seamen term ... ...n. I studied him in his own works as well as in those of his European and American ech- oes. The ‘Charles Elwood’ of Mr. Brownson, for example, was p... ...ld send for me about twenty- four hours before the period announced by his physicians as that of his decease. It is now rather more than seven months ... ... toms rendered an exact diagnosis impossible. It was the opin- ion of both physicians that M. V aldemar would die about mid- night on the morrow (Sund... ... farther embarrassment. It had been my design, originally, to wait for the physicians; but I was induced to proceed, first, by the urgent entreaties o... ...e an unusually perfect state of mesmeric trance. The curiosity of both the physicians was greatly excited. Dr. D — resolved at once to remain with the... ...s; still asleep—dying.” It was now the opinion, or rather the wish, of the physicians, that M. V aldemar should be suffered to remain undisturbed in h... ...l Journal” of Leipsic—a periodical of high authority and merit, which some American bookseller would do well to translate and republish, records in a ...

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...denounced by the medical papers as a breach of confidence of these eminent physicians. The case was the same; but the prescriptions were different, an... ... the treat- ment of Charles II in his last illness to see how strongly his physicians felt that their only chance of cheating death was by outraging n... ...owledge, any more than the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness (as the American Constitution puts it), from all social conditions. No man is allow... ... his poorer patients out from time to time, and finally use the College of Physicians to place it out of his own power to accept low fees; but the ord... ... tradition that the doctor’s fee is an hono- rarium. Even the most eminent physicians, as such biogra- phies as those of Paget show, are sometimes mis...

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...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...ers of the Stock Exchange, not in the Inns of Court, not in the College of Physicians, not in the College Speeches: Literary and Social 111 of Surgeo... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ... to say his story was quite true. He was captain and part owner of a large American merchant liner. On a certain voyage out, in exquisite summer weath... ... which obtains by far the most exten sive circulation, these words of the American nation:—”I know full well, whatever little motes my beamy eyes may...

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... everywhere Want, Dishonesty, Unbelief, and hotbrained Sciolists for state-physicians: it is a portentous hour. Such things can the eye of History see... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ... say our new Mayor Bailly; our new Commander Lafayette, named also ‘Scipio-Americanus,’ have bought their preferment dear. Bailly rides in gilt state-... ... a ‘feast of shells!’—Diligent are the Three Hun- dred; none equals Scipio Americanus in dealing with mobs. But surely all these things bode ill for t...

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...anged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were... ...s, who painted still life with a certain amount of skill, and Clayson, the American sculptor. Raggles stood for rank and fashion at the Chien Noir. He... ...t out with the tall Jagson, who smarted still under Haddo’s insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill si lently. When he was at the door, Haddo ... ... have been present at the battle of Pavia. He collected in formation from physicians, surgeons and alchemists; from ex ecutioners, barbers, shepherd... ...m from remain ing anywhere for long. He wrought many wonderful cures. The physicians of Nuremberg denounced him as a quack, a charlatan, and an impos... ...w them, in com pany of Russian Grand Dukes and their mistresses, of South American women with prodigious diamonds, of noble gam blers and great ladi... ...y thrill you, they’re so queer, and a lovely actress, and an awfully jolly American girl.’ ‘I should love to come,’ said Susie, with an appealing look...

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...en a humble-minded general practitioner, gifted with a due respect for the physicians of the county; and he, though he had been allowed to physic the ... ... dishonesty—an act of dishonesty both to Scatcherd and to that far-distant American family, to that father, who, in former days, had behaved so nobly,... ...al of red beard beneath his chin, cut in a manner to make him look like an American. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of ... ...rican. His voice also had a Yankee twang, being a cross between that of an American trader and an English groom; and his eyes were keen and fixed, and... ...ave been very kind. ’ ‘And who is he, doctor? Won’t it go to some of those Americans? I am sure I never did anything kind to them; though, indeed, I d...

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...ivil War. During the last war, these en- croachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immedia... ...any considerable number of people taking hold of the question of crime, as physicians have taken hold of disease, and seeking to find its cause and to... ...rough the needs of the rulers in war they were given to the poor. When the American Revolution separated us from Great Britain, the spirit of democrac... ...ch and nerves, and Nature will have revenge. T o be sure, the professional American rhapso- dist points out that we are immune from natural law becaus... ...ansmitted in the blood, but in the environment. It is not many years since physicians and communities be- lieved that tuberculosis was inherited. In a... ...g and fitting men for life. All prisons should be in the hands of experts, physicians, criminologists, biologists, and, above all, the humane. Every p...

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...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten... ...ision— this precision, and this notoriety of precision—Her Majesty’s court physicians should have chosen to propagate a story of her resurrection. Ima... ...le, why does he timidly confine himself to the hy- pothesis of the queen’s physicians only coming forward? Why not call in the whole Privy Council?—or... ...common influence; sec- ondly, because, if not the motives, at any rate the physicians themselves, act upon each other. In this respect, they are under... ...f an independent multi- tude, to smuggle in a virtual unity; for his court physicians are no plural body in effect and virtue, but a mere pleonasm and... ...le. Strip Hume’s case of the ambiguities already pointed out—sup- pose the physicians really separate and independent wit- nesses—not a corporation sp...

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...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ... been intelligibly and urgently recommended by popular writers, the German physicians hesitated to perform an operation that seemed to forestall Natur... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...a bota- nist; and his company, with the exception of Morus, con- sisted of physicians just commencing or near the completion of their studies. Now, du... ...adepts as for the multitude. After the example of Tissot, a foreigner, the physicians also now began to labor zealously for the general cultivation. H... ...icines prepared by himself, of which no one could speak, since with us the physicians were strictly prohibited from making up their own prescrip- tion... ...icines prepared by himself, of which no one could speak, since with us the physicians were strictly prohibited from making up their own prescrip- tion... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai...

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...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ...benefit by their services. To ordain that any kind of persons shall not be physicians, or shall not be advocates, or shall not be Members of Parliamen... ...t be Members of Parliament, is to injure not them only, but all who employ physicians or advocates, or elect Members of Parliament, and who are depriv...

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...ty he brought about, by his own industry, the establishing of a College of Physicians, of which he was elected the first president. He was a detester ... ...velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natural. In the hall are these curiosities:...

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...the Censorship against effective ex- posure and criticism. Not long ago an American Review of high standing asked me for an article on the Censorship ... ...ne without hindrance. If the General Medical Council, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Incorporated Law Society, and Co...

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...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...It was nearly a gone case with me then—just touch-and-go for six weeks—the physicians giving me up and all that sort of thing. But, although I suffere... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an...

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...e life less hard for her. She and her husband lived necessarily apart. Her physicians predicted improved health, but the Marquise herself put no faith... ...s of him; but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one f... ...rcelain vases painted by Madame Jacotot; tiny South 150 A Woman of Thirty American birds, like living rubies, sapphires, and gold, hov- ered among th...

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...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco... ...s upon the pretended bloody practices of the Jews, and of the early Jewish physicians. Being himself a Lincoln man, he treated Sir Hugh 4 of Lincoln,...

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...e with Maule’s malediction in The story. Furthermore, there occurs in The “American Note-Books” (August 27, 1837), a reminiscence of The author’s fami... ...nt of lands in Waldo County, Maine, owned by the Pyncheon family. In the “ American Note-Books” there is an entry, dated August 12, 1837, which speaks... ...f phrase, which, if it do not show a bewilderment of mind in these erudite physicians, certainly causes it in the unlearned peruser of their opinions....

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...atched with an intense eagerness and care; but who, in spite of nurses and physicians, had only a brief existence. His tainted blood did not run very ... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ...keray afterwards she was in a delicate state of health, and ordered by the physicians not to travel; otherwise ’twas well known that the Viscount Cast... ... His “Clotilda,” Castlewood went on to say, “was still deli- cate, and her physicians thought her lying-in had best take place at Paris. He should com...

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... own brother. It was believed that the Alcestis was destined for the South American station. “A three years’ business,” said Dr. May, with a sigh. “Bu... ...cer had taken a large share of his friend’s work for the present, and both physicians were much occupied by the condition of Mr. Ramsden who was fast ... ...e enough, and they saw our signal of distress!” The vessel proved to be an American whaler, which had just parted with her cargo to a homeward bound s... ... hunt him up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected,... ...ave suffered, he was far too polite to scold, and a glance between the two physicians ended in a merry twinkle of his bright eyes. “This way,” he said...

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...an gentleman, whose wife chanced to be desperately ill, and he went to the physicians assembled in consultation outside the sick-room, imploring them ... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...ct Learning and write out his prescription: I do not ask more of men or of physicians.” Dr. Middleton said this rising, glancing at the clock and at t...