Local Option in Medicine

Boston Globe

It is related of Henry Ward Beecher that after being troubled with illness for some days he sent for a first-class regular physician. In the presence of so learned and distinguished a patient, the physician, in Latinized phrase and professional verbiage, diagnosed the trouble.

When he had finished Mr. Beecher said: "Your medical terms are perhaps as unintelligible to me as some of my theological might be to you, but the plain English of the whole business is: Can you cure me?"

"We cannot promise anything in medicine," said the physician.

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