Poor Janet! it has been no magnum bonum to her, I
fear. If I could only know where she is."
A civil, but not a very eager note came in reply to John from Dr.
Ruthven, making the appointment, but so dispassionately that he might
fairly be supposed to expect little from the interview.
However, they came home more than satisfied. Perhaps in the interim
Dr. Ruthven had learnt what manner of young men they were, and the
honours they had won, for he had received them very kindly, and had
told them how a conversation with Joseph Brownlow had put him on the
scent of what he had since gradually and experimentally worked out,
and so fully proved to himself, that he had begun treatment on that
basis, and with success, though he had only as yet brought a portion
of his fellow physicians to accept his system.
Lucas had then explained as much as was needful, and shown him the
notes. He read with increasing eagerness, and presently they saw his
face light up, and with his finger on the passage they had expected,
he said, "This is just what I wanted. Why did I not think of it
before?" and asked permission to copy the passage.
Then he urged the publication of the notes in some medical journal,
showing true and generous anxiety that honour should be given where
honour was due, and that his system should have the support of a name
not yet forgotten.
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