EXTRAORDINARY ACTION.
The London correspondent of the 11 Irhh Times " of January 31 saya :-" I had it yesterday from one of the counsel retained In the case, that a very curious litigation Is listed for hearing daring the present term. Some two years ago a North London doctor, having a large family practice, bad on his liet of patients • lady loDg suffering from en affection of the face and jaw, whloh baffled the arts of the faculty. She had been for some time under his care when she changed her residence from London to Ne wcastk-on - Tyne, bnt kept herself In the hands of her London doctor by letter. Findlrg tbe ailment obstinate and the patient BOmewhatintrac' able and hypochondriacs], the doctor wrote m the end, saying he b>d exhausted bis resources, and adding bit opinion that tbe edap 'verum was the only remedy. The dead language was matter m the wrong place. It proved a snare, for tbe lady hied herself off to a local chemist, and applied for the Bpacifio as set forth m the letter. The attendant, It will be contended, through deliberate dishonesty, made up a bottle, for whloh he oharged 7» 6d, and at tbe patients request. registered, or pretended to register, her name In the shop-book as a customer to whom tbe remedy was to be regularly supplied. She Continued using and paying for the sham medicine for over a year and a half ; and a curious point m the case trill be her admission that it gave her more relief than any previona remedy employed. Coming to London for tbe royal jubilee, ahe chanced to meet her former doctor, who, it should be said had told ber m his letter that, being nnable to do more for ber, he did not feel justified m continuing the correspondence. He was astonished to find Mimetf gratefnlly.thanked for his flnal advice, and still more astonished when the lady related tbe facts. He wrote at once for an explanation, and advised the patient to demand (he return of the large earn she htd paid m fancy prices for tbe nostram. The next etage of the business began with the disappearance of the=asslstant and the denial of any responsibility of the chemist. On these main facts the case is based, bnt some remarkable revelations of the ndntan 'capacity for consuming doctors' ■tuff may- be expected. The* plaintiff has, It seems, been an Invalid from ber twentieth year, and has for the quarter of a century Intervening paid for medicine alone orer £2000*
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1812, 11 April 1888, Page 3
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424EXTRAORDINARY ACTION. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1812, 11 April 1888, Page 3
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