The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-11-14
MlLLY LANCE.

might even have been called ugly, but
that there is an excellent precept i'm
pressed on all well cared minds in their
nursery Stage of formation, to the effect
that no one may be SO Extensively de-
scribed except II be q. certain notorious
parsonage whom it will not be necessary
TO name. Let US say, therefore, that DR..
Dendy was plain
He was physician in large prac' ice.
Jocose people said Of him that in the
course of his professional career he had
occasion to thrust SO many guineas into
his pockets, that eventually the gold coin
carried 90 much about his person, had
got into his own circulation, and affected
the color Of his skin. Certainly his
complexion was deeply tinged with yel-
low. He was very bald, with . narrow
festocn Of iron grey hair at the back Of
his head. His small, neat, wiry figure
was always clothed in black-his coat
being invariably buttoneds tightly across
his chest He was or middle age, per-
haps little better; which expression,
as applied to age, is generally under
stood to signify little worse, or older.
He lived in a grand, gaunt, murky house
in Harley street, seldom setting foot in
more than two rooms in it, however
his library and his bedroom. He was
the author Of an admired Treatise on
the Pathology of the Heart. to which
work he was constantly adding annota-
tions aud commentaries, with q view to
completely exhausting and settling the
subject. When he was able to devote q
lite more time to it, his book, he was
satisfied, wonld be the only authority on
the hcart-physiology and pathologic-
ally considered sasT
But his time WAS very much occupied.
He saw patients at his own house almost
before he had swallowed his breakfast;
later in the day, he saw other patients
at their own homes and he was one Of
the physcians to st. Lazarus Hospital,
and gave lectures on Materia Medica,
course after course to the students of
that excellent Institutions; he wasa Eel
low, or q member, of all sorts or scien :.
tihc societies, and on certain days in the
week he attended the boards of various
insurance companies, examined papers,
and passed zor rejected lives. proposed
for insurance. He was hard working
and prosperous. Few men in the pro-
fession. it was said, made SO large an in
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would, you seemed to be forever encoun-
tering DR.. sDendy's two horse carriage
rattling along at q great pace, going to
or from patients and the accompanying
golden fees. szs s'af
When the doctor started in the morn
ing. he gave his coachman . list Of the
places he was to drive to. In this list
the coachman had entered now for some
months d certain house in Calthorpe
street. You called it Calthorpe street,
Russell square, if you were desirous of
consulting the predictions Of its inhab-
itants; If you were needless in that re-
spect, you spoke of it with perhaps
greater accuracy as Calthorpe street,
Gray's Inn Road. DR.. Dendy always
appeared to prefer the first mentioned
designation. bas iassasfq ID
The coachman treated himself to
furtive smile whenever he read Calthorpe
street in the list. The doctor had q pa
tient there, Of course. But then, as the
coachman noted, his master went there
oftener and stayed there longer than
anywhere else. OF course the patient
might be in~s@m more ndeplosAhla state,
mighs stand more in need Of protracted
visits from medical adviser than any
other Of Dr.. Dendy's patients bnt the
coachman Was inclined to think that
such was not the case.