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Meanwhile
when
Nancy
presented
herself
at
the
Infirmary
,
it
happened
to
be
one
of
Lydgate
’
s
days
there
.
After
questioning
and
examining
her
,
Lydgate
said
to
the
house
-
surgeon
in
an
undertone
,
"
It
’
s
not
tumor
:
it
’
s
cramp
.
"
He
ordered
her
a
blister
and
some
steel
mixture
,
and
told
her
to
go
home
and
rest
,
giving
her
at
the
same
time
a
note
to
Mrs
.
Larcher
,
who
,
she
said
,
was
her
best
employer
,
to
testify
that
she
was
in
need
of
good
food
.
But
by
-
and
-
by
Nancy
,
in
her
attic
,
became
portentously
worse
,
the
supposed
tumor
having
indeed
given
way
to
the
blister
,
but
only
wandered
to
another
region
with
angrier
pain
.
The
staymaker
’
s
wife
went
to
fetch
Lydgate
,
and
he
continued
for
a
fortnight
to
attend
Nancy
in
her
own
home
,
until
under
his
treatment
she
got
quite
well
and
went
to
work
again
.
But
the
case
continued
to
be
described
as
one
of
tumor
in
Churchyard
Lane
and
other
streets
—
nay
,
by
Mrs
.
Larcher
also
;
for
when
Lydgate
’
s
remarkable
cure
was
mentioned
to
Dr
.
Minchin
,
he
naturally
did
not
like
to
say
,
"
The
case
was
not
one
of
tumor
,
and
I
was
mistaken
in
describing
it
as
such
,
"
but
answered
,
"
Indeed
!
ah
!
I
saw
it
was
a
surgical
case
,
not
of
a
fatal
kind
.
"
He
had
been
inwardly
annoyed
,
however
,
when
he
had
asked
at
the
Infirmary
about
the
woman
he
had
recommended
two
days
before
,
to
hear
from
the
house
-
surgeon
,
a
youngster
who
was
not
sorry
to
vex
Minchin
with
impunity
,
exactly
what
had
occurred
:
he
privately
pronounced
that
it
was
indecent
in
a
general
practitioner
to
contradict
a
physician
’
s
diagnosis
in
that
open
manner
,
and
afterwards
agreed
with
Wrench
that
Lydgate
was
disagreeably
inattentive
to
etiquette
.
Lydgate
did
not
make
the
affair
a
ground
for
valuing
himself
or
(
very
particularly
)
despising
Minchin
,
such
rectification
of
misjudgments
often
happening
among
men
of
equal
qualifications
.
But
report
took
up
this
amazing
case
of
tumor
,
not
clearly
distinguished
from
cancer
,
and
considered
the
more
awful
for
being
of
the
wandering
sort
;
till
much
prejudice
against
Lydgate
’
s
method
as
to
drugs
was
overcome
by
the
proof
of
his
marvellous
skill
in
the
speedy
restoration
of
Nancy
Nash
after
she
had
been
rolling
and
rolling
in
agonies
from
the
presence
of
a
tumor
both
hard
and
obstinate
,
but
nevertheless
compelled
to
yield
.
How
could
Lydgate
help
himself
?
It
is
offensive
to
tell
a
lady
when
she
is
expressing
her
amazement
at
your
skill
,
that
she
is
altogether
mistaken
and
rather
foolish
in
her
amazement
.
And
to
have
entered
into
the
nature
of
diseases
would
only
have
added
to
his
breaches
of
medical
propriety
.
Thus
he
had
to
wince
under
a
promise
of
success
given
by
that
ignorant
praise
which
misses
every
valid
quality
.
In
the
case
of
a
more
conspicuous
patient
,
Mr
.
Borthrop
Trumbull
,
Lydgate
was
conscious
of
having
shown
himself
something
better
than
an
every
-
day
doctor
,
though
here
too
it
was
an
equivocal
advantage
that
he
won
.
The
eloquent
auctioneer
was
seized
with
pneumonia
,
and
having
been
a
patient
of
Mr
.
Peacock
’
s
,
sent
for
Lydgate
,
whom
he
had
expressed
his
intention
to
patronize
.
Mr
Trumbull
was
a
robust
man
,
a
good
subject
for
trying
the
expectant
theory
upon
—
watching
the
course
of
an
interesting
disease
when
left
as
much
as
possible
to
itself
,
so
that
the
stages
might
be
noted
for
future
guidance
;
and
from
the
air
with
which
he
described
his
sensations
Lydgate
surmised
that
he
would
like
to
be
taken
into
his
medical
man
’
s
confidence
,
and
be
represented
as
a
partner
in
his
own
cure
.
The
auctioneer
heard
,
without
much
surprise
,
that
his
was
a
constitution
which
(
always
with
due
watching
)
might
be
left
to
itself
,
so
as
to
offer
a
beautiful
example
of
a
disease
with
all
its
phases
seen
in
clear
delineation
,
and
that
he
probably
had
the
rare
strength
of
mind
voluntarily
to
become
the
test
of
a
rational
procedure
,
and
thus
make
the
disorder
of
his
pulmonary
functions
a
general
benefit
to
society
.
Mr
.
Trumbull
acquiesced
at
once
,
and
entered
strongly
into
the
view
that
an
illness
of
his
was
no
ordinary
occasion
for
medical
science
.
"
Never
fear
,
sir
;
you
are
not
speaking
to
one
who
is
altogether
ignorant
of
the
vis
medicatrix
,
"
said
he
,
with
his
usual
superiority
of
expression
,
made
rather
pathetic
by
difficulty
of
breathing
.
And
he
went
without
shrinking
through
his
abstinence
from
drugs
,
much
sustained
by
application
of
the
thermometer
which
implied
the
importance
of
his
temperature
,
by
the
sense
that
he
furnished
objects
for
the
microscope
,
and
by
learning
many
new
words
which
seemed
suited
to
the
dignity
of
his
secretions
.
For
Lydgate
was
acute
enough
to
indulge
him
with
a
little
technical
talk
.
It
may
be
imagined
that
Mr
.
Trumbull
rose
from
his
couch
with
a
disposition
to
speak
of
an
illness
in
which
he
had
manifested
the
strength
of
his
mind
as
well
as
constitution
;
and
he
was
not
backward
in
awarding
credit
to
the
medical
man
who
had
discerned
the
quality
of
patient
he
had
to
deal
with
.
The
auctioneer
was
not
an
ungenerous
man
,
and
liked
to
give
others
their
due
,
feeling
that
he
could
afford
it
.
He
had
caught
the
words
"
expectant
method
,
"
and
rang
chimes
on
this
and
other
learned
phrases
to
accompany
the
assurance
that
Lydgate
"
knew
a
thing
or
two
more
than
the
rest
of
the
doctors
—
was
far
better
versed
in
the
secrets
of
his
profession
than
the
majority
of
his
compeers
.
"
