The Conservatives were very jubilant in the City on Wed-
nesday, over their great victory in the City and elsewhere. Mr. Disraeli excused himself from attendance, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northcote, who took his place, had no difficulty in accounting for the extreme dullness of the Session, without admitting any fault in his colleagues or his chief.
Medical students, he said, who had been irs the habit of attending
surgeon famous for operating, who clipped off a leg or an arm on the slightest medical provocation, would-find a successor who went round with the strong desire of saving every limb he could save exceedingly dull and flat, after so brilliant a predecessor, but then the dullness and flatness would be a measure of the new surgeon's merits. That is not a bad hit, but at least let the new physician know his own mind, and not try one remedy one minute and another the next. That is a kind of "mild and kindly" treat- ment which does not inspire the patient with respect, and it appears to us the kind which Mr. Cross at least chiefly approves. A soothing ointment at nine and a stick of caustic at ten is hardly a creditable regimen, even when applied by a mild physician who wishes (somewhat helplessly) to spare the limb.
Previous page
