Two of
them were physicians. The third, and last, was a surgeon, a personal
friend of yours; and _he_, as well as I recollect, told you how the
consultation ended?"
"Quite right, Romayne--so far."
"The first of the two physicians," Romayne proceeded, "declared my case
to be entirely attributable to nervous derangement, and to be curable by
purely medical means. I speak ignorantly; but, in plain English, that, I
believe, was the substance of what he said?"
"The substance of what he said," Lord Loring replied, "and the substance
of his prescriptions--which, I think, you afterward tore up?"
"If you have no faith in a prescription," said Romayne, "that is, in my
opinion, the best use to which you can put it. When it came to the turn
of the second physician, he differed with the first, as absolutely
as one man can differ with another. The third medical authority, your
friend the surgeon, took a middle course, and brought the consultation
to an end by combining the first physician's view and the second
physician's view, and mingling the two opposite forms of treatment in
one harmonious result?"
Lord Loring remarked that this was not a very respectful way of
describing the conclusion of the medical proceedings.
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