He looked so anxiously at the apprentice, that the latter removed the covering from his mouth, and enabled him to speak.
"I am glad to find you are getting on so well," said Leonard, in a cheerful tone.

"Doctor Hodges has been with you, I understand ?" "He has," groaned Blaize; "but he has done me no good--none whatever.

I could doctor myself much better, if I might be allowed; for I know every remedy that has been prescribed for the plague; but he would adopt none that I mentioned to him.

I wanted him to place a hot loaf, fresh from the oven, to the tumour, to draw it; but he would not consent.

Then I asked for a cataplasm, composed of radish-roots, mustard-seed, onions and garlic roasted, mithridate, salt, and soot from a chimney where wood only has been burnt.