Excerpt from Recollections and Reflections My father was the vicar of Otley, the principal town in the beautiful vale of the Wharfe. A Scotch doctor had firmly established himself to the almost exclusion of all competitors. Few people run the risk of thwarting a determined and jealous man; and it was with many misgivings that my father consulted a young physician, in a neighboring village, for a growth which had appeared on the leg of my eldest sister. Dr. Spence was always for heroic treatment. I remember he had his ...
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Excerpt from Recollections and Reflections My father was the vicar of Otley, the principal town in the beautiful vale of the Wharfe. A Scotch doctor had firmly established himself to the almost exclusion of all competitors. Few people run the risk of thwarting a determined and jealous man; and it was with many misgivings that my father consulted a young physician, in a neighboring village, for a growth which had appeared on the leg of my eldest sister. Dr. Spence was always for heroic treatment. I remember he had his portrait painted with a knife, not even a lancet, in his hand; undoubtedly he would have made, what he called, a free incision, and from the consequences of an open wound, in those days before antiseptic treatment was known and suppura tion was supposed to be the natural process of healing, my father so shrank, that he braved the old doctor's sure wrath and called in the younger man who was an fait with the newer methods of absorption. The result amply justified the risk, although, as the sequel will show, that risk was far greater than the Vicarage anticipated. We all have the tendency to argue from our own point of view, and naturally suppose that other people will act as we would, similarly placed. My father was the kindest and most consecrated of men, and he supposed his friend, the doctor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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