And everything I give them--though sometimes I don't clearly understand what the matter is--seems to do them good.

I believe that faith does as much as physic." "In my country," I remarked, "there is a sect of doctors who get the benefit of that principle.

They give their patients two or three little balls no bigger than a pin's head, or a few drops of tasteless liquid, and they sometimes work wonderful cures." "That system would not do for us.

The Russian muzhik would have no faith if he swallowed merely things of that kind.

What he believes in is something with a very bad taste, and lots of it.