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Men whose dexterity as operators or almost divinatory skill in diagnosis are constantly needed for difficult cases, are poulticing whitlows, vaccinating, changing unimportant dressings, prescribing ether drams for ladies with timid leanings towards dipsomania, and generally wasting their time in the pursuit of private fees.
WHITLOWS. As soon as the disorder is apparent, the finger affected is to be plunged into warm water, or the steam of boiling water may be applied to it. The application must be very frequently repeated the first day, and the complaint will soon be dispersed.
They went on thinking thinking that the sufferer had scratched his thumb, or that it was singular that "all the servants" had "whitlows," or that something was "much about this year; there is always sickness in our house." This is a favourite mode of thought leading not to inquire what is the uniform cause of these general "whitlows," but to stifle all inquiry.
This was the first work of that literary partnership of father and daughter which Maria Edgeworth describes as "the joy and pride of my life." MARIA to MISS SOPHY RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Nov. 19, '98. You have, I suppose, or are conscious that you ought to have, whitlows upon your thumb and all your four fingers for not writing to me!
Hence it is asserted, that if a man is a stealer of gold from a Brahmin, he is doomed to have whitlows on his nails; if a drinker of spirits, black teeth; if a false detractor, fetid breath; if a stealer of grain, the defect of some limb; if a stealer of clothes, leprosy; if a horse-stealer, lameness; if a stealer of a lamp, total blindness.
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