Before he had been ill many days, he told a friend that he was convinced he would not recover.

He sank and sank.

Nevertheless, if his case had been properly understood and skilfully treated from the first, he might conceivably have been saved; but the doctors failed to diagnose his symptoms; and it is noteworthy that his principal physician was Sir James Clark.

When it was suggested that other advice should be taken, Sir James pooh-poohed the idea: "there was no cause for alarm," he said.
But the strange illness grew worse.

At last, after a letter of fierce remonstrance from Palmerston, Dr.Watson was sent for; and Dr.Watson saw at once that he had come too late The Prince was in the grip of typhoid fever.