Note 34 — Chapter X · POPULAR ESTIMATES OF PHYSICIANS.

We had some years ago, says Dr. Rush in one of his lectures, a physician in this city of sprightly talents, who was an habitual drunkard. Soon after his death, I was called to attend a gentleman who had been one of his constant patients. He submitted with reluctance to my prescriptions, because they were contrary to the modes of practice of his former physician, to whom he was so much attached, that he declared he would rather be prescribed for by him when drunk, than by any sober physician in the city.