I speak ignorantly; but, in plain English, that, I believe, was the substance of what he said ?" "The substance of what he said," Lord Loring replied, "and the substance of his prescriptions--which, I think, you afterward tore up ?" "If you have no faith in a prescription," said Romayne, "that is, in my opinion, the best use to which you can put it.

When it came to the turn of the second physician, he differed with the first, as absolutely as one man can differ with another.

The third medical authority, your friend the surgeon, took a middle course, and brought the consultation to an end by combining the first physician's view and the second physician's view, and mingling the two opposite forms of treatment in one harmonious result ?" Lord Loring remarked that this was not a very respectful way of describing the conclusion of the medical proceedings.

That it was the conclusion, however, he could not honestly deny.
"As long as I am right," said Romayne, "nothing else appears to be of much importance.

As I told you at the time, the second physician appeared to me to be the only one of the three authorities who really understood my case.