And it's well I did.

He's near death's door as it is; and without medical aid I would certainly have lost him before this.
He's only been sick a week, and you know yourself how low he is reduced.

Where do you think he would have been without medicine?
The disease has taken a terrible hold of him.

Why, the doctor has bled him twice; and his little chest is raw all over from a blister.

He has been cupped and leeched.