Consistency
Doctor:—“Do you make experiments at your hospital?”
Professor:—“I should say so! We have, for instance, three divisions for inflammation of the lungs. In the first, the patients are not given anything; in the second, they are given tartar-emetic; in the third, tartar-emetic and they are also bled. In all three divisions deaths are about even.”
Doctor:—“Don’t you think that many a patient of the first division could be saved, by being bled?”
Professor:—“Don’t doubt it, but it can’t be done. We must be firm, to reach the desired result.”