The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-09
A SECOND OPINION.

tor. place myself unroservodly in your
| hands
/" All right Thon lot it be as have
/ suggested. "
About 4 o'clock on the same afternoon,
! l was not % littlc surprised TO receive an
| other visit from DIR. \.
| "AhV he said. after we had exchanged
| greetings, you didn't expect me again
| todayy spoke this morning. you know
about "a second opinion. Wcll / hhvo
/ takon u second opinion; not another
/ mans however, but my own. And tho
\ result has boen to throw n flood of light
! upon airs. y. Is mysterious malady"
stared at him In Some bowilderment
| not understanding exactly what he meant.
My dear sir, " BIO replied, answering
/ my look, II do not wonder nt your feel
] ing surprised | am surprised myself.
/ Inc roal truth about Mrs. y. complaint
EN- bodied in my second opinion. Gs
! like 10 call thus dawned upon me,
! quito suddenly, this afternoon. Ana 10
explains everything. May justsrun up
and soc my patienty'
: 'Of course, | said.
And | conducted him uptairs 90 my
wifo's room. 10 was not very long before
| he came down again. In the meantime,
1 | had boen thinking over his strange words
| and oven stranger manner, ana wondering
! what it all moant Before had arrived no
| any sort of conclussOn-exCcpt that his
sudden discovery about my wifo's com
/ plaint might possibly have elatod and
excited hIm into his present state-he
walked In upon mo. / noticed his lace
| particularly IL was now calm, keen,
/ convinced. Tho puzzled expression which
had observed on previous occasions
had completely vanished.
well, my dear sir - he said In q brisk.
| wcll-sntisiled tOno, my second opinion
was correct Wo hayo probed tho mis-
chiof.''
oyou bnvco'
Beyond shadow OF uncertainty, or
possibility Of doubt Mrs. y. h suffering
from" (It was n Greek word, ending
in 'itis. y "A rare and new complaint
only just discovered. T"
And nc entorod into explanatory details,
which In this case also aud for similar
reasons l shall abstain from describing To
you.
1T is daugerousS' exclaimed
'No, no. And it is wonderfully sus-
coptiblo OF treatment. Indood i Will
promise you thnt after Mrs. y. has taken
few doses of tito specific which shall
prescribe for her, you will notice an OK
traordinary change for the better in her
condition. Would you obligo mo with ron
and papcrY'
He readily wrote off prescription.
"Thoro," he said handing IL 90 me-
"Sond out and have this made M at onoo
IL Is To be- taken every two hours until
come tomorrow And unless | am much
mistaken, ho added as no went out
there will be no occasion, after all, To
call In DIR. II. -
lie proved TO bo quito right A few
doses of this new medicine did effect "a
marvellous improyomcnt In my wife, and
by the time DR. n. came ON the following
Monday morning she was quite another
! woman.
well, doctor" / said TO him, delight
edly, when no looked In on mo after his
interview with my wife. lyon were not
at fault, You 500 you have found Mrs y.
wonderfully botter-havc you notP'
. Yes, yes; wonderfully 50. Her physi-
cal condition has undergone really mar-
velous change. i notice, however, and 10
does sometimes happen In ladies suffering
from this mnlndy--a slight tendency 90
cerebral derangeiueut Sho Is now under
"a curious halluoination concerning my
self.
"Halluonntion have noticed moth
Ing OF that 20 b. she ~ ems 20 mo To bo
more her,sli than she has been for
weela- ;,
"YesS Well, thosc little imnqlnations
are only fitful and momuntary and onsIly
escape notice. But just now, she said
something about my having paid her u
second visit yesterday afternoon, aud hav-
ing changed her medicine and few
moro things OF that sort A passing fancy,
OF course. | said nothing to undccoivo
her, AS
"To undccoiyo herr" I interposed, with
eyes wide open. 40 -to--undcceivo horf
About whar, doctnrY'
"Why. about my second visit and my
change of medicine" ho said, In some
didn't tell her that ] had never Leen u
scoofri t.mc yesterday. and had never
changed her medicine at nll.
l stared at him now with undisgulscd
astonshment
"My-my denr doctor, | oiaoul ted ;
| tfypIl igeftnO al ADtl-a.f
Testing. No, indeed. Where does the
jest como inE' he qucr!od, with lift of
his eyebrows
But-hut--you did come" | cried.
land YOU did chRngs her medicine. and
You told me that tho ranl truth about her
illness had just dnwned upon you, and
that she WAS suffering FROM
hnpponed 90 remomher Tint word end
ing In ''itis, aud repeated IL 20 him
correctly as h9 had told 10 20 me-
n was now DIR. ~ = turn to stare.
"pshawl :" 10 calculated lyon must
bc ie,tlng now. my denr sir Why. for
ono thing, thCrn H. no such malndy known
% the n.edical facultgi ir anothcr----"
"D DR. NJ" Raspe1 Coy hcnd was by
| this time IA a sort OF wbrL and | f0it
very queer ana uncomfortable about this
affair, for his denials wore evidently sin
core. there seems t) bc somo--some--
| extraordinary mistake or delusion some.
\ where. Ijut you cannot enny the evidence
] Of your own hnnuWfNinBl 4 VIII snow
! you your prescription.
AZ 1 spoke. 1 took ~ from n drawer
I where / kept such thugs. unfoldod it and
0avo j. 10 him.
He regarded 10 with frown Of bowi-
dcrnent; held N up % tho light. and In
spected 10 carefully, the bcwildcriuont In
his fnce growing morn aud more pro-
nOuuccd NJ so did 90.
By Jupiter /" he cjacularc1 no last. in
great astOuisbmont And I wrote this
yesterday 20
''In tbis room, yesterday afternoon.
! have nbgoluteiy no recollection OF 10. ."
Nor n coming here 10 nIiP'
Most unqlcstionsbly not
nj yes You did come and expressed
what you called % second opinion on M
wife's case, md prcseriDed Tor her this
n1e6icine. which she has been taking ever
siEca. and which has made her simply
another woman in a fcw hours
IL csn't uuderstand it 4 could swear