" In your instructions to your patients," siid an American physician to a young practitioner, "be particular in giving minute directions concerning diet. This has great effect, on the minds of old women eipecially, as their maladies are in a great measure imaginary. Give a list of what is to be eaten at breakfast, dinner, and supper, and you may depend upon being made the subject of conversation, and will be considered very clever. I brought myself into notice and gained several prominent families by recommending to a wealthy old lady the left leg of a boiled fowl Once, when I was away on a short vacation, this okl lady fell ill, and was obliged to send for a neighboring physician, who, by the way, was really a well read man. On his attempting to persuade her that the left leg possessed no particular virtue, she became ejuite indignant and uncomplimentary."
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Evening Star, Issue 7447, 16 February 1888, Page 3
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