And I discovered this, and the new path to
cure of all diseases it opens. Alone I did it; and what my reward?
Hooted, insulted, belied, and called a quack by the banded school of
profissional assassins, who, in their day hooted Harvey and
Jinner--authors too of great discoveries, but discoveries narrow in their
consequences compared with mine. T' appreciate Chronothairmalism, ye must
begin at the beginning; so just answer me--What is man?"
At this huge inquiry whirring tip all in a moment, like a cock-pheasant
in a wood, Mrs. Dodd sank back in her chair despondent. Seeing her _hors
de combat,_ Sampson turned to Julia and demanded, twice as loud, "WHAT IS
MAN?" Julia opened two violet eyes at him, and then looked at her mother
for a hint how to proceed.
"How can that child answer such a question?" sighed Mrs. Dodd. "Let us
return to the point."
"I have never strayed an inch from it. It's about 'Young Physic.'"
"No, excuse me, it is about a young lady. Universal Medicine: what have I
to do with that?"
"Now this is the way with them all," cried Sampson, furious; "there lowed
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