Oh, dear! It makes my heart sick.

Now, with all this, the disease hangs on almost as bad as ever.

Suppose we hadn't sent for the doctor at first?
Can't you see what would have been the consequence?
It is very wrong to put off calling in a physician upon the first symptoms of a disease." "Pardon me, Mrs.Lee, for saying so," was my reply, "but I cannot help thinking that, if you had not called the doctor, your child would have been quite well to-day." Mrs.Lee--that was the lady's name--uttered an exclamation of surprise and disapproval of my remark.
"But, cannot you see, yourself; that it is not the disease that has reduced your child so low.

The bleeding, blistering, cupping, leeching, and calomel administrations, would have done all this, had your child been perfectly well when it went into the doctor's hands." "But the disease would have killed him inevitably.

If it requires all this to break it, don't you see that it must have taken a most fatal hold on the poor child's system." "No, Mrs.Lee, I cannot see any such thing," was my reply.