My doctors / by a patient ; with frontispiece by G. DuMaurier.

Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: My doctors / by a patient ; with frontispiece by G. DuMaurier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    I found Dr. Rosanna at home. The room in which ! she received me was a compound of study, surgery, and (consulting room. Many learned treatises on physiology 1 reposed upon the book-shelves ; miniature busts of I medical celebrities occupied points of vantage on the 'walls. The room was plainly yet daintily furnished; I one feminine weakness alone was apparent in the ] profusion of roses which were placed, in china bowls, . about the apartment. But my present medical adviser was certainly very I nice, clever and sympathetic, and with a good deal of I tact. I felt a comparative Yahoo in her presence. And yet my first interview with her was not a success. We got on very well for a few moments, until at last she (entreated me to speak to her with the utmost unreserve. Unfortunately there still remained a stock of shyness iin me on which I had not counted. When she became 'very pressing and personal on the subject of my internal {arrangements I got very hot and uncomfortable, and I putting down my fee 1 rushed off to my cab, which 'was fortunately in waiting outside. A few days afterwards I received an invitation to :spend the day with my friends at Llandudno. I went, I little expecting the trap which they had set for me. During the time now consecrated to that fi.xed festival— afternoon tea”—I was not a little disconcerted to see Dr. Rosanna walk into the room. After a few common- place greetings my friends withdrew, and Dr. Rosanna .and I were left alone. It was she who began the (Conversation. “ You bolted off rather suddenly the other day ? ” “ Ye-e-es,” I stammered. “ Why ? ”