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plaints, according to our good surgeon, required 

 a free use of the lancet. Napoleon, however, 

 seemed to entertain a very strong prejudice 

 against bleeding, which, remembering the 

 satire of Lesage, he called the Sangrado prac- 

 tice. He urged the propriety of sparing the 

 precious fluid, but the surgeon maintained the 

 doctrine of the good effects of the practice 

 which Bonaparte had so forcibly reprobated 

 and ridiculed. " A Frenchman," the Emperor 

 exclaimed, " would never submit to the dis- 

 cipline of the Spanish doctor " ; but he no 

 longer argued against it. On meeting Mr. 

 Warden he would apply his fingers to the bend 

 of the opposite arm, and ask : " Well, how 

 many have you bled to-day ? " Nor did he 

 fail to exclaim, when any of his own people 

 were indisposed, " O, bleed him, bleed him ! 

 To the powerful lancet with him, that's the 

 infallible remedy." 



On the Sabbath day, after the performance 

 of divine service, some conversation on the sub- 

 ject of the Emperor's religious faith had taken 

 place with him and some of the principal per- 

 sons of his suite. It was, however, not deemed 

 necessary to communicate anything further 



