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MIDDLEMARCH-Part77_GEORGE ELIOT(1819-1880)_English Literature(文学)-第2页

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to hear from the house-surgeon, a youngster who was not sorry

to vex Minchin with impunity, exactly what had occurred:



he privatelypronounced that it was indecent in a general practitioner

to contradict a physician's diagnosis in that open manner,



and afterwards agreed with Wrench that Lydgate was disagreeably

inattentive to etiquette. Lydgate did not make the affair a ground



for valuing himself or (very particularly) despising Minchin,

such rectification of misjudgments often happening among men



of equal qualifications. But report took up this amazing case

of tumor, not clearly distinguished from cancer, and considered



the more awful for being of the wandering sort; till much prejudice

against Lydgate's method as to drugs was overcome by the proof



of his marvellous skill in the speedyrestoration of Nancy Nash

after she had been rolling and rolling in agonies from the presence



of a tumor both hard and obstinate, but nevertheless compelled to yield.

How could Lydgate help himself? It is offensive to tell a lady



when she is expressing her amazement at your skill, that she is

altogethermistaken and rather foolish in her amazement. And to have



entered into the nature of diseases would only have added to his

breaches of medicalpropriety. Thus he had to wince under a promise



of success given by that ignorant praise which misses every valid quality.

In the case of a more conspicuous patient, Mr. Borthrop Trumbull,



Lydgate was conscious of having shown himself something better than

an every-day doctor, though here too it was an equivocal advantage



that he won. The eloquent auctioneer was seized with pneumonia,

and having been a patient of Mr. Peacock's, sent for Lydgate,



whom he had expressed his intention to patronize. Mr Trumbull was

a robust man, a good subject for trying the expectant theory upon--



watching the course of an interesting disease when left as much

as possible to itself, so that the stages might be noted for future



guidance; and from the air with which he described his sensations

Lydgate surmised that he would like to be taken into his medical



man's confidence, and be represented as a partner in his own cure.

The auctioneer heard, without much surprise, that his was a



constitution which (always with due watching) might be left to itself,

so as to offer a beautiful example of a disease with all its phases



seen in clear delineation, and that he probably had the rare strength

of mind voluntarily to become the test of a rational procedure,



and thus make the disorder of his pulmonary functions a general

benefit to society.



Mr. Trumbull acquiesced at once, and entered strongly into the view

that an illness of his was no ordinary occasion for medical science.



"Never fear, sir; you are not speaking to one who is altogetherignorant

of the vis medicatrix," said he, with his usual superiority



of expression, made rather pathetic by difficulty of breathing.

And he went without shrinking through his abstinence from drugs,



much sustained by application of the thermometer which implied

the importance of his temperature, by the sense that he furnished



objects for the microscope, and by learning many new words which

seemed suited to the dignity of his secretions. For Lydgate



was acute enough to indulge him with a little technical talk.

It may be imagined that Mr. Trumbull rose from his couch with a



disposition to speak of an illness in which he had manifested the

strength of his mind as well as constitution; and he was not backward



in awarding credit to the medical man who had discerned the quality of

patient he had to deal with. The auctioneer was not an ungenerous man,






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