DOCTOR AND PATIENT.
| Sir William Jenner, the noted physician, used to wear at his watch chain a gold guinea piece, which bore a pleasant little history. One day he found among the patients in his consulting room a journeyman carpenter. On remarking to the man that his disease had through neglect of treatment made great progress, he received the following repty : “I have been waiting to see you for three years, sir.” ‘‘Why, my man?” queried the physician. ‘‘Couldn’t you afford to come sooner ?” “Oh, yes,” answered the carpenter, “but I could not get a gold guinea piece anywhere, and I heard that a guinea was your fee and that you would take nothing else.” Sir William used to wear that guinea piece on his chain. But though he completely cured the patient in the course of eight months, he never took another fee from the poor fellow, who had tried so hard to find the guinea piece, and who had waited so patiently to consult him.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 39, 14 May 1907, Page 5
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