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infected the whole house, the patient’s will to
recover was paralysed by despondency and fear
of death. It is very probable that my two
colleagues knew their pathology far better than I.
But I knew something they evidently did not
know: that there is no drug as powerful as hope,
that the slightest sign of pessimism in the face or
words of a doctor can cost his patient his life.
Without entering into medical details it is enough
to say that as a result of my examination I was
convinced that her gravest symptoms derived
from nervous disorders and mental apathy. My
two colleagues watched me with a shrug of their
broad shoulders while I laid my hand on her
forehead and said in a calm voice that she needed
no morphia for the night. She would sleep well
anyhow, she would feel much better in the
morning, she would be out of danger before I left
London the following day. A few minutes later
she was fast asleep, during the night the
temperature dropped almost too rapidly to my taste, the
pulse steadied itself, in the morning she smiled
at me and said she felt much better.
Her mother implored me to remain a day longer
in London, to see her sister-in-law, they were all
very worried about her. The colonel, her
husband, wanted her to consult a nerve specialist,
she herself had tried in vain to make her see Doctor
Phillips, she felt sure she would be all right if
she only had a child. Unfortunately she had an
inexplicable dislike of doctors, and would
certainly refuse to consult me, but it might be
arranged that I should sit next her at dinner so
as at least to form an opinion of her case. May
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