F - , &C." "Sir, You Have No
Doubts Remaining; I Am Very Glad Of It.
Received twelve livres.
Fizes, &c."
Instead of keeping his promise to the valet, he put the money in
his pocket; and the fellow returned in a rage, exclaiming that he
was un gros cheval de carosse, a great coach-horse.
I shall make no other comment upon the medicines, and the regimen
which this great Doctor prescribed; but that he certainly mistook
the case: that upon the supposition I actually laboured under a
purulent discharge from the lungs, his remedies savour strongly
of the old woman; and that there is a total blank with respect to
the article of exercise, which you know is so essential in all
pulmonary disorders. But after having perused my remarks upon his
first prescription, he could not possibly suppose that I had
tubercules, and was spitting up pus; therefore his persisting in
recommending the same medicines he had prescribed on that
supposition, was a flagrant absurdity. - If, for example, there
was no vomica in the lungs; and the business was to attenuate the
lymph, what could be more preposterous than to advise the chalk
of Briancon, coral, antihecticum poterii, and the balm of Canada?
As for the turtle-soupe, it is a good restorative and balsamic;
but, I apprehend, will tend to thicken rather than attenuate the
phlegm. He mentions not a syllable of the air, though it is
universally allowed, that the climate of Montpellier is
pernicious to ulcerated lungs; and here I cannot help recounting
a small adventure which our doctor had with a son of Mr. O - d,
merchant in the city of London.
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