Note 26 — Chapter VIII · GOOD AND BAD PRACTICE.
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When an epidemic is prevalent, such a physician instead of allaying the undue public excitement, as it is his duty to do, increases it by his very grave and wise air of conversation, and by his reports of his cases, of which he is apt to have more than his neighbors, and to be of course very successful in their treatment. Even when there are only distant rumors of the epidemic, he has occasion to report to gossiping circles some cases which at least come very near to being true cases of it.