“Is this advice to be construed in a moral rather than a medical sense?” said Lady Onslow, with a malicious smile.
“Either or both,” replied the doctor. “The heart will always be highly susceptible of nervous influence.”
“But papa” broke in Sydney, eagerly.
“Is suffering under metastasis migratory gout, it may be termed changing from articular to large organic structures.”
“And, of course, you are giving him the old poisons that were in use fifty years ago?”
“What do you mean, madam?” said Grounsell, sternly.
“That shocking thing that drives people mad colocynth, or colchicum, or something like that. You know what I mean?”
“Happily for me, madam, I can guess it.”
“And are you still as obstinate as ever about the globules?”
“The homoeopathic humbug?”