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upon the removal to Kew. This was the Rev. 

 Mr. Willis, who at Lincoln, and in a private 

 asylum of his own, had shown the benefit of a 

 more rational treatment of the insane. Though 

 he had a medical degree, he was belittled as a 

 quack by many members of a guild apt to 

 suspect innovators ; but his success had been 

 so notable that he was now employed, with his 

 sons, trained in his methods, to be constantly 

 about the King. From the first he took a 

 hopeful view of the case ; and when, with 

 occasional interference, he was allowed to have 

 his way, it soon appeared that he was the right 

 man in the right place. His secret seems to 

 have been a mixture of kindness and firmness ; 

 but perhaps he was not above using nostrums 

 of his own. Mrs. Papendiek, whose husband 

 was in attendance, says that one of the remedies 

 used was musk, the smell of which the King 

 could not bear, but the doctor insisted on it 

 as efficacious. He took the responsibility of 

 giving the King a razor to shave himself, for 

 which he was afterwards denounced almost 

 as compassing Lcse-majeste\ but on all such 

 questions he stipulated for leave to go by his 

 own experience and judgment. 



