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twenty-one doctors round a rich man's bed, 

 and none of them knew anything about 

 him." i 



With Sir Almroth himself, and I suppose 

 at least two nurses, there must have been, 

 besides the rich man in the bed, two dozen 

 people in that sick room, the windows and 

 doors of which we may be sure Sir Almroth 

 had tightly closed ; and if each of the 

 twenty-one doctors was given adequate time 

 to pronounce the diagnosis upon which Sir 

 Almroth deduced his ignorance of the sick 

 man's condition, there must have accumulated 

 such a plentiful lack of fresh air in that 

 chamber as to have by itself powerfully 

 assisted the patient towards recovery. 



Sir Almroth forgets to tell us whether, 

 besides the stuffy room, he prescribed the 

 accumulation of u a horny protection " on 

 the rich man's body, and, indeed, we are 



1 Times, March 18, 1911. 



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