"Don't say a word, Barneyto whom the medicos of mythology and all the wizards of antique story are clowns and mountebanksyou shall have the guinea or its equivalent.

The empiric-medico at Salerno had been well paid to furnish a potion that should, by its slow but deadly action, prolong the tortures of the sufferers!

" "She is quite a chip of the old block," he was wont to say of her, "quite one of usa Medico in frocks!"