SUSPICIOUS ILLNESSES

Evening Star, Issue 14535, 10 December 1910, Page 12

SUSPICIOUS ILLNESSES

There wus ourp a phy.-ician in London (Uic • Special or' says) who used in tell his pupils that they should never dismiss from their minds the possibility ot murder in the ease of a mysterious illness, however little suspicious the circumstances might be. And ho used to quote his experience when he was calkd into consultation with a local practitioner who was baffled by the illness of a clergyman's wife. The physician asked the clergyman: "Has the possibility of poisoning occurred to you?" "It has," was the answer; " and I have been so careful to guard against it that I have actually made it' a practice to prepare my wife's food myself." " Then I dismiss tbo thought," replied the physician, suavely, "but as I have already taken a sample of tho food I found in the bedroom, I may a3 well analyse it in London, as a matter of form." Tho clergyman thanked the physician for his scrupulous care. Tho latter returned to London, and the former shot himself. Tho wife recovered, and—this may be embroidery—erected a memorial to her husba/" '-i the parish chitrch.