I was afraid that my experiments might be prohibited as dangerous, and my want of common prudence be made the subject of public reprimand by the authorities.

The medical professors were permitted by me to conclude that it was a case of illness entirely new in their experience.
"In administering the antidote, I had no previous experiments to guide me, except my experiments with rabbits and dogs.

Whether I miscalculated or whether I was deluded by my anxiety to save the man's life, I cannot say.

This at least is certain, I gave the doses too copiously and at too short intervals.
"The patient recovered--but it was after sustaining some incomprehensibly deteriorating change in the blood, which destroyed his complexion, and turned his hair gray.

I have since modified the doses; and in dread of losing the memorandum, I have attached a piece of notched paper to the bottle, so as to render any future error of judgment impossible.