E~y;;t~
;* 4r,
 241,


with his explanation to
my throat, I suppose ? "


he physician
The doctor


that "it is only from
says, Posedby it is,"


and fails to
that it isn't.


physician


undeceive him when he finds, as he usually does,


Then the patient tells his


that


his "


second


doctor" says it is only in his


and his third


throat, and


the other physicians wonder, perhaps, how so eminent an


thority could make so glaring a blunder.


tions


are literacy true, but they are


Now, all these asser-
the zokot trutk; in


fact, but a very small part of it.


A medical man knows what


a "little weakness in one lung signifies, but the patient does


not;
or t


or a little pleurisy at the apex; or a consolidation,"


he


little bronchial difficulty," etc.


nineteen


cases out


twenty,


incipient


knows it means
phthisis--" con-


gumption."


But the patient does not, and he is very sure not


to cross-question the doctor too closely, if


at all.


He is only


too glad


have


comparatively


his fears


trivial


allayed


secondary


so easily.


affections,


Behind


there


these


is often


tubercular deposit, or, if
pneumonic consolidation,


already a cavity.
sive softening in


one prefers to
qr softening;


Many patients come t4


one or


both lungs,


call it so, permanent
or, not unfrequently,
, Florida with exten-


with


the consent, if not


the advice, of their physician


truth,


to crush


bright


who dreads


to tell the


anticipations of


cure,


whole
which


they and their relatives have formed,


through the instrumentat-


ity of the climate of


this favored region,


which they have


heard so


much


and, perhaps, hoping that, at least, a


tempo-


rary


progress


the disease


may


be obtained.


When an early death occurs,


with none, perhaps, but strangers


around, and


body is, according


to custom


sent


home by


express,
Florida.


then


the physician's


reputation


If he is right, Florida is wrong.


suffers,


or that


Florida can-


* not work miracles.


the threshold


It is


, by


true, the physician


friends of the invalid


is often
with


met
the c


tion, and often


quasi command,


"Don't tell


her she has con-


sumption-it will kill her if you do


the contrary,


One may wel


" It will kill her if you don't."


theeffects of the deception


are far worse ti


say, on


In the long-run,
ian those of the


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au-


h