PRINCESS.
What! all these secrets for purifying the blood, of which my ladies have spoken to me; this Baume de Vie of the Sieur de Lievre; these packets of the Sieur Arnauld; all these pills so much praised by femmes de chambre—
PHYSICIAN.
Are so many inventions to get money, and to flatter patients, while nature alone acts.
PRINCESS.
But there are specifics?
PHYSICIAN.
Yes, madam, like the water of youth in romances.
PRINCESS.
In what, then, consists medicine?