Extraordinary Action by a Lady.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2875, 17 April 1888, Page 3

Extraordinary Action by a Lady.

The London correspondent of the Irish Times of January 31st says; A very curious litigation is listed for hearing during the present term. Some two yeais ago a North London doctor had 011 his list of patients a lady long suffering from an affection of the face and jaw, which baffled the arts of the faculty. She had been some time under his care when she changed her residence from London to Newcastle-on-Tyne, but kept herself in the hands of her London doctor by letter. Finding the ailment obstinate and the patient .somewhat intractable and hypochondriacal, the doctor wrote in the end, saying he had exhausted his Resources, and adding his opinion that Wjie edux mum was the only remedy. The Ajfed languaage was matter in the wronjrtylace, It proved a snare, for the lady hied herself off to a local chemist, and applied for the specific as set forth in the letter. The attendant, it will be contended, through deliberate dishonesty, made up a bottle for which he charged 7s 6d, and at the patient's request registered, or pretended to register, her name in the shop-book as a customer to whom the remedy was to be regularly supplied, Slio continued using and paying for the sham medicine for more than a year and a half; . and a curious point in the case will be her admission that it gave her more relief than any previous remedy employed. Coming to London she chanced to meet her former doctor, who it should be said, had told her in his letter that, being unable to do more for her, he did not feel justified in continuing the correspondence. He to find himself gratefulljwbnked for his final advice, and still more astonished when the lady related the facts. He wrote at once for an explanation, and advised the, patient to demand the return of the L ] ai ,B 6 S nm she had paid in fancy prices ▼ foAhe nostrum. The nexJ stage of the business began with the dissappearance of the assistant and tho genial of any responsibility by the

chemist. On those main (acts ths cuss is based, but some remarkable revelations of the human capacity for consuming doctors' stud may be expected. The plaintiff has, it seems, been an invalid from her twentieth year, and has for tho quarter of a century intervening paid for medicine alone over .02,000,"