"Impossible."
"Why? You'd do as much for a horse or dog."
"My business is to prolong life, not hasten death. The profession recognises no interference of that sort."
"Who knows anything about it? A dying man dies, and there's an end."
"I cannot listen to you, Mr. Baskerville. We must think of the greatest good and the greatest safety to the greatest number. The law is very definite in this matter, and I have my profession to consider. You look at an individual case; the law looks at the larger question of what is convenient for a State. Your brother is having medicinal doses of morphia as often as it is possible to give them to him without danger to life."
"In fact, Nature must kill him her own hard way."
"Much is being done to lessen his pain."
"But a double dose of your physic would——"
"End his life."
"How?"