Given then a patient, who by excessive indulgence of any particular train of thought, had brought the group of fibres which were the physical seat of such thoughts into a diseased condition, Dr.Gustav Heidenhoff had invented a mode of applying the galvanic battery so as to destroy the diseased corpuscles, and thus annihilate the class of morbid ideas involved beyond the possibility of recollection, and entirely without affecting other parts of the brain or other classes of ideas.

The doctor saw patients Tuesdays and Saturdays at his office, 79 -- -- Street.
Madeline was not crazy, thought Henry, as still standing under the hall lamp he closed the article, but Dr.Heidenhoff certainly was.

Never had such a sad sense of the misery of her condition been borne in upon him, as when he reflected that it had been able to make such a farrago of nonsense seem actually creditable to her.

Overcome with poignant sympathy, and in serious perplexity how best he could deal with her excited condition, he slipped out of the house and walked for an hour about the streets.

Returning, he knocked again at the door of her parlour.
"Have you read it ?" she asked, eagerly, as she opened it.
"Yes, I've read it.