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consultation, the big man put a slice of his fee in the
hands of the small man as a matter of course.
Nor did it stop there. I remember my
stupefaction the first time I called in a specialist for an
embalmment when this man offered me five
hundred francs from his fee. The charge for an
embalmment was scandalously high.
Many of the professors I used to consult in
difficult cases were men of world-wide
reputation, at the very top of the tree in their
speciality, extraordinarily exact and amazingly quick
in their diagnosis. Charcot for instance was
almost uncanny in the way he went straight to
the root of the evil, often apparently only after
a rapid glance at the patient from his cold eagle
eyes. During the last years of his life maybe
he relied too much upon his eye, the examination
of his patients was often far too rapid and
superficial. He never admitted a mistake and woe to
the man who ever dared to hint at his being in
the wrong. On the other hand he was
surprisingly reserved before pronouncing a fatal
prognosis, even in clearly hopeless cases. L’imprévu
est toujours possible, he used to say. Charcot
was the most celebrated doctor of his time.
Patients from all over the world flocked to his
consulting room in Faubourg St. Germain often
waiting for weeks before being admitted to the
inner sanctuary where he sat by the window in
his huge library. Short of stature, with the
chest of an athlete and the neck of a bull, he was
a most imposing man to look at. A white clean
shaven face, a low forehead, cold penetrating
eyes, an aquiline nose, sensitive cruel lips, the
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