"
"Thank you, doctor. Oh, I forgot; you owed me one. He is no favorite of
yours."
"Certainly not. And I only invited him medicinally."
"Medicinally? That's too deep for a layman."
"To flirt with Miss Wieland. Flirting does her good."
"Medicine embraces a wider range than I thought."
"No doubt. You are always talking about medicine; but you know very
little, begging your pardon."
"That is the theory of compensation. When you know very little about a
thing you must talk a great deal about it. Well, I'm here for
instruction; thirsting for it."
"All the better; we'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart."
"All right: but not of your favorite Acetate of Morphia; because that
is the draught that takes the reason prisoner."
"It's no favorite of mine. Indeed, experience has taught me that all
sedatives excite; if they soothe at first, they excite next day. My
antidotes to mental excitement are packing in lukewarm water, and, best
of all, hard bodily exercise and the perspiration that follows it. To
put it shortly--prolonged bodily excitement antidotes mental
excitement."
"I'll take a note of that. It is the wisest thing I ever heard from any
learned physician."
"Yet many a learned physician knows it. But you are a little prejudiced
against the faculty.
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