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Dosewell, sir?" asked the landlady, stopping him at the door. "Hum! At what hour to-morrow does the next coach to London pass?" "Not before eight, sir." "Well, send for the doctor to be here at seven. That leaves us at least some hours free from allopathy and murder," grunted the disciple of Hahnemann, as he entered the room.
"Let me take your hand, ma'am. God reward you both." "La, sir! why, even Dr. Dosewell said, rather grumpily though, 'Never mind my bill; but don't call me up at six o'clock in the morning again, without knowing a little more about people. And I never afore knew Dr. Dosewell go without his bill being paid. He said it was a trick o' the other doctor to spite him." "What other doctor?"
"What would you advise, then, in order to prolong our patient's life for a month?" DR. MORGAN. "Give him Rhus!" DR. DOSEWELL. "Rhus, sir! Rhus! I don't know that medicine. Rhus!" Dr. MORGAN. "Rhus Toxicodendron." The length of the last word excited Dr. Dosewell's respect. A word of five syllables, that was something like! He bowed deferentially, but still looked puzzled.
At last he said, smiling frankly, "You great London practitioners have so many new medicines: may I ask what Rhus toxico toxico " "Dendron." "Is?" "The juice of the upas, vulgarly called the poison-tree." Dr. Dosewell started. "Upas poison-tree little birds that come under the shade fall down dead! You give upas juice in these desperate cases: what's the dose?" Dr.
Dosewell, recovering his cheerful smile, but with a curl of contempt in it, "and would soon do for the druggists." "Serve 'em right. The druggists soon do for the patients." "Sir!" "Sir!" "You don't know, perhaps, Dr. Morgan, that I am an apothecary as well as a surgeon. In fact," he added, with a certain grand humility, "I have not yet taken a diploma, and am but doctor by courtesy."
Dosewell," said he, "I have been too hot, I apologize." "Dr. Morgan," answered the allopathist, "I forgot myself. Your hand, sir." DR. MORGAN. "We are both devoted to humanity, though with different opinions. We should respect each other." DR. DOSEWELL. "Where look for liberality, if men of science are illiberal to their brethren?" "The old hypocrite!
DR. MORGAN. "All one, sir! Doctor signs the death-warrant, 'pothecary does the deed!" "Certainly we don't profess to keep a dying man alive upon the juice of the deadly upas-tree." "Of course you don't. There are no poisons with us. That's just the difference between you and me, Dr. Dosewell." "Indeed, I have always said that if you can do no good, you can do no harm, with your infinitesimals."
"If you think the child in such imminent danger," said Booth, "would you give us leave to call in another physician to your assistance indeed my wife" "Oh, by all means," said the doctor, "it is what I very much wish. Let me see, Mr. Arsenic, whom shall we call?" "What do you think of Dr Dosewell?" said the apothecary. "Nobody better," cries the physician.
Morgan grinned maliciously, and produced a globule the size of a small pin's head. Dr. Dosewell recoiled in disgust. "Oh!" said he, very coldly, and assuming at once an air of superb superiority, "I see, a homoeopathist, sir!" "A homoeopathist." "Um!" "Um!" "A strange system, Dr. Morgan," said Dr.
Dosewell on the mother's side was Irish; but Dr. Morgan on both sides was Welsh. All things considered, I would have backed Dr. Morgan if it had come to blows. But, luckily for the honour of science, here the chambermaid knocked at the door, and said, "The coach is coming, sir." Dr. Morgan recovered his temper and his manners at that announcement. "Dr.
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