The corner of Harley Street : being some familiar correspondence of Peter Harding, M. D / [Sir Henry Howarth Bashford].
- Henry Howarth Bashford
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The corner of Harley Street : being some familiar correspondence of Peter Harding, M. D / [Sir Henry Howarth Bashford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![disheartening fall of the countenance that greets the junior partner when his senior was expected. And you will accept with a grave countenance and an inward chuckle your knowledge of the extremely frank criticism that is likely to herald and succeed your first few visits. Even now there’s a letter upon my desk from a disrespectful young lady who shall be nameless. A new curate has made his initial appearance in an Eastbourne drawing-room. He shook hands ]nst like a baby,” she writes, “ and he stopped to tea, and he sprawled all over the table, and he has quite nice eyes, but his mouth is just like cook’s when she’s having one of her windy spasums.” And if sixteen can rise to heights like this, what about eighteen and twenty and twenty- two ? Nor are curates, alas, the only legitimate prey. I wonder if there’s a girls’ school in your practice ? You may lament too, for a little while perhaps, the slow dawning of confidence in your new patients. But before very long you may even be rather overwhelmed (quite privately of course) by the freedom and completeness with which it is accorded you. And above all things, be just your natural self in dealing with them, forgetting, if you can, that you have ever even](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24865333_0241.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
