There are patients, I must tell you, who send for the doctor, and then seem to think they know more about it than the very man whom they have called in to cure them.

It isn't he who tells them what their illness is; it's they who tell him.

They dispute about the medical treatment that's best for them, and the one thing they are never tired of doing is talking about their symptoms.

It was an old man's gabble that kept me late to-day.

However, the Squire, as they call him in these parts, is a patient with a long purse; I am obliged to submit." "A gentleman of the old school, dear Miss Henley," Mrs.Vimpany explained.