ful, it would be a
long time before you could arrive; whereas, if she could not have help
soon, she must be compelled to leave us. We asked her if she could think
of any other physician that she would like to see? She replied, that she
should like to see Dr. Q.,--an old physician about twenty miles distant.
We sent for him immediately. He came, and with him her old physician,
Dr. K.

"I wish to say that she had taken but very little medicine before Dr. Q.
came, except the morphine, camphor, and brandy. But the counselling
physician said that would not do, and he could not help her unless she
took three opium pills, eighteen drops of laudanum, and from six to nine
drops of the chloride of iron, a day; and when she hesitated about being
able to bear it, he told her to drink down the white part of two eggs in
cold water, which would keep the medicine from hurting her.

"We inquired if he would come again and see her: to which he replied in
the affirmative. She proceeded to take his medicine for one day, but it
quickly increased her diarrhoea. Instead of six movements a day, they
were increased to thirty-five. Under these circumstances, her weakness
increased so fast that she could help herself very little; and her feet,
hands, and limbs were very much bloated. As Dr. Q. did not come,
according to his agreement, we sent for her old physician. When he saw
her, he said it was a wonder she had lived so long after taking Dr. Q.'s
medicine."

We are not told, in the letter from which the above is extracted, why
her old physician, Dr. K., consented, in the first place, that she
should take the medicine, if he regarded it as so very bad for her. But,
then, he was a timid as well as a Janus-faced man, and probably said as
he did because he did not know what else to say. But I will go on with
the extracts, since they reveal another most astounding fact in regard
to medical dishonesty.

"He also (the family physician) told us that we must not expect Dr. Q.
any more, for he told him expressly that he should not come again, as he
could do nothing for her, and that if he had known how she was before he
came, he never would have come so far in a case so hopeless. And, true
to his engagement with Dr. K., but contrary to his promise, both to my
sister and my father, separately, he never came again.

"But the other doctor came again, and attended her as formerly. He gave
her a powder of morphine, and some gum myrrh, and a little anise,