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from wealthy Americans, many of them flocking
to Rome, I was told, in order to be under his
care. He had his own staff of nurses, his own
private nursing home outside Porta Pia. I
understood at first he was a ladies’ doctor, but
heard later that he was a specialist in diseases
of the heart. He evidently possessed the
inestimable gift of inspiring confidence in his
patients, I never heard his name mentioned
except with praise and gratitude. It did not
surprise me for, compared with the rest of us,
he was in fact a rather striking personality, a
fine forehead, extraordinarily penetrating and
intelligent eyes, a remarkable facility for speaking,
very winning manners. He ignored completely
his other colleagues, but he had called me in
consultation a couple of times, chiefly for nervous
cases. He seemed to know his Charcot pretty
well, he had also visited several German clinics.
We nearly always agreed as to diagnosis and
treatment, I soon came to the conclusion that
he knew his business at least as well as I did.
One day he sent me a rapidly scribbled note
asking me to come at once to the Hôtel Constanzi
for a consultation. He seemed more excited
than usual. He told me in a few rapid words
that the patient had been under his care for
some weeks, had at first much benefited by his
treatment. These last days there had been a
change for the worse, the action of the heart was
unsatisfactory, he would like to have my opinion.
Above all I was not to alarm the patient nor
his family. Judge of my surprise when I
recognized in his patient a man I had loved and
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