His nervous system was out of order--he was at once timid and contradictory.

When I spoke to him in English, he answered in Italian; and when I tried him in Italian, he went back to English.

It mattered little--the malady had already made such progress that he could only speak a few words at a time, and those in a whisper.
'"I at once applied the necessary remedies.

Copies of my prescriptions (with translation into English) accompany the present statement, and are left to speak for themselves.
'"For the next three days I was in constant attendance on my patient.
He answered to the remedies employed--improving slowly, but decidedly.
I could conscientiously assure Lady Montbarry that no danger was to be apprehended thus far.

She was indeed a most devoted wife.