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Other
medical
men
felt
themselves
more
capable
.
Mr
.
Toller
shared
the
highest
practice
in
the
town
and
belonged
to
an
old
Middlemarch
family
:
there
were
Tollers
in
the
law
and
everything
else
above
the
line
of
retail
trade
.
Unlike
our
irascible
friend
Wrench
,
he
had
the
easiest
way
in
the
world
of
taking
things
which
might
be
supposed
to
annoy
him
,
being
a
well
-
bred
,
quietly
facetious
man
,
who
kept
a
good
house
,
was
very
fond
of
a
little
sporting
when
he
could
get
it
,
very
friendly
with
Mr
.
Hawley
,
and
hostile
to
Mr
.
Bulstrode
.
It
may
seem
odd
that
with
such
pleasant
habits
he
should
hare
been
given
to
the
heroic
treatment
,
bleeding
and
blistering
and
starving
his
patients
,
with
a
dispassionate
disregard
to
his
personal
example
;
but
the
incongruity
favored
the
opinion
of
his
ability
among
his
patients
,
who
commonly
observed
that
Mr
.
Toller
had
lazy
manners
,
but
his
treatment
was
as
active
as
you
could
desire
:
no
man
,
said
they
,
carried
more
seriousness
into
his
profession
:
he
was
a
little
slow
in
coming
,
but
when
he
came
,
he
DID
something
.
He
was
a
great
favorite
in
his
own
circle
,
and
whatever
he
implied
to
any
one
’
s
disadvantage
told
doubly
from
his
careless
ironical
tone
.
He
naturally
got
tired
of
smiling
and
saying
,
"
Ah
!
"
when
he
was
told
that
Mr
.
Peacock
’
s
successor
did
not
mean
to
dispense
medicines
;
and
Mr
.
Hackbutt
one
day
mentioning
it
over
the
wine
at
a
dinner
-
party
,
Mr
.
Toller
said
,
laughingly
,
"
Dibbitts
will
get
rid
of
his
stale
drugs
,
then
.
I
’
m
fond
of
little
Dibbitts
—
I
’
m
glad
he
’
s
in
luck
.
"
"
I
see
your
meaning
,
Toller
,
"
said
Mr
.
Hackbutt
,
"
and
I
am
entirely
of
your
opinion
.
I
shall
take
an
opportunity
of
expressing
myself
to
that
effect
.
A
medical
man
should
be
responsible
for
the
quality
of
the
drugs
consumed
by
his
patients
.
That
is
the
rationale
of
the
system
of
charging
which
has
hitherto
obtained
;
and
nothing
is
more
offensive
than
this
ostentation
of
reform
,
where
there
is
no
real
amelioration
.
"
"
Ostentation
,
Hackbutt
?
"
said
Mr
.
Toller
,
ironically
.
"
I
don
’
t
see
that
.
A
man
can
’
t
very
well
be
ostentatious
of
what
nobody
believes
in
.
There
’
s
no
reform
in
the
matter
:
the
question
is
,
whether
the
profit
on
the
drugs
is
paid
to
the
medical
man
by
the
druggist
or
by
the
patient
,
and
whether
there
shall
be
extra
pay
under
the
name
of
attendance
.
"
"
Ah
,
to
be
sure
;
one
of
your
damned
new
versions
of
old
humbug
,
"
said
Mr
.
Hawley
,
passing
the
decanter
to
Mr
.
Wrench
.
Mr
.
Wrench
,
generally
abstemious
,
often
drank
wine
rather
freely
at
a
party
,
getting
the
more
irritable
in
consequence
.
"
As
to
humbug
,
Hawley
,
"
he
said
,
"
that
’
s
a
word
easy
to
fling
about
.
But
what
I
contend
against
is
the
way
medical
men
are
fouling
their
own
nest
,
and
setting
up
a
cry
about
the
country
as
if
a
general
practitioner
who
dispenses
drugs
couldn
’
t
be
a
gentleman
.
I
throw
back
the
imputation
with
scorn
.
I
say
,
the
most
ungentlemanly
trick
a
man
can
be
guilty
of
is
to
come
among
the
members
of
his
profession
with
innovations
which
are
a
libel
on
their
time
-
honored
procedure
.
That
is
my
opinion
,
and
I
am
ready
to
maintain
it
against
any
one
who
contradicts
me
.
"
Mr
.
Wrench
’
s
voice
had
become
exceedingly
sharp
.
