Before leaving, I spoke encouragingly to my patient, and promised to see her early in the morning.
"My daughter is very sick, Doctor.

What is the disease ?" The mother spoke calmly and firmly.

"I am not one towards whom any concealments need be practised; and it is meet that I should know the worst, that I may do the best." "The disease, madam," I replied, "has not yet put on all of its distinctive signs.

A fever--we call it the fever of incubation--is the forerunner of several very different ailments, and, at the beginning, the most accurate eye may fail to see what is beyond.

In the present case, however, I think that typhoid fever is indicated." I spoke as evenly as possible, and with as little apparent concern as possible.