conclusion, one must agree, for an old and broken
man to arrive at, who has been resolutely disci
plined and drilled for ten years. When they
sweated him for B right s disease to remove the fat
from the kidneys, Dan Cullen contended that the
sweating was hastening his death; while Bright s

[{ONE OF THE WARDS IN WHITECHAPEL INFIRMARY.}]

disease, being a wasting away of the kidneys, there
was therefore no fat to remove and the doctor s
excuse was a palpable lie. Whereupon the doctor
became wroth, and did not come near him for nine
days.

Then his bed was tilted up so that his feet and
legs were elevated. At once dropsy appeared in the

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