SAVING THE DOCTOR'S FEE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12454, 2 February 1909, Page 4

SAVING THE DOCTOR'S FEE.

Mr Biriell,' the Irish Secretary, told an amusing story- in proposing the toast <of the ' 'Royal Society . of Medicine" at the- annual dinner at the Hotel Cecil recently. Only once in his life did he feel persuaded he said, that he was smitten with a mortal disease. He started on a journey t,o consult a distinguished doctor, who lived in the neighbourhood of Harley street. It was a hot day in July- and he. though tho time, was ; come to take his last walk. He walked from his house and found the groat physician's rooms crowded with patients. ' While waiting ho found on- the table a book written by the- great physician on the sub-i-ect of the particular disease..- He opened the book, and the first words which caught his eye were these:— "The patient who is suffering from this disease never perspires." He nickocl up his hat and gloves and 'walked oilt, and he. had _ never seen that eminent physician since.