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admired for years as did everybody else who
had ever met him, the author of ‘Human
Personality and its Survival of bodily Death.’
His breathing was superficial and very difficult,
his face was cyanotic and worn, only his wonderful
eyes were the same. He gave me his hand and
said he was glad I had come at last, he had been
longing for my return. He reminded me of our
last meeting in London, when I dined with him
at the Society for Psychical Research, how we
had been sitting up the whole night talking about
death and thereafter. Before I had time to
answer, my colleague told him he was not to
speak for fear of another attack and handed me
his stethoscope. There was no need for a
prolonged examination, what I had seen was enough.
Taking my colleague aside I asked him if he
had told the family. To my intense surprise
he did not seem to realize the situation, spoke
of repeating the injections of strychnine at
shorter intervals, of trying his serum next
morning, of sending to the Grand Hôtel for a
bottle of burgundy of a special vintage. I said
I was against stimulants of any kind, their only
possible effect might be to rouse once more his
capacity for suffering, already subdued by
merciful nature. There was nothing else for us to
do but help him not to suffer too much. As
we were speaking, Professor William James, the
famous philosopher, one of his nearest friends,
entered the room. I repeated to him the family
must be told at once, it was a question of hours.
As they all seemed to believe more in my colleague
than in myself, I insisted that another doctor
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