" Selection."—Brown (as he was leaving our Art Conversazione after a rattling in the .cloak-room): _" Confound; it:!: 'Got my oirn Bat, after all!"' ' x-I'-'-Among the papersieft behind him by a German physicians who diedafew weeks ago, is one containing notes of certain opinions Ike had arrived at during a professional experience of mfSfe than 40 years. In one of these^not'ea 'he: expresses an opinion that at least a third of the illnesses of the patients' who sought his advice were purely imaginary. He found it not only against his own interest, but also against that of the , self-alleged sufferers to destroy the allusion by informing them that there was really ho cause for anxiety. 111-health was to them a matter of almost vital importance. To destroy the pleasing belief that they possessed this blessing was an absolute cruelty.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4431, 17 March 1883, Page 2
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137Untitled Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4431, 17 March 1883, Page 2
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