Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — The Cap Fitted Her. [ARTICLE]

The Cap Fitted Her.

Dr. John Radcliff was in his day the most famous physican in England. He numbered kings and queens among his pafients, and received enormous fees. But he was fond of the bottle, and, as one writer says, “often found in an overstimulated condition.” Summoned one evening to a lady patient, he found himself too much inebriated to count her pulse, and so murmured, “Drunk! dead drunk!” and hastened homeward. The next morning, while exercising intense mortification oyer the recollection he received a note from the same patient, in which she said that she knew only too well her own condition when he called, and begged him to keep the matter secret. > She inclosed a hundred pound note —more probably as a bribe to silence him, than out of appreciation of the skill which she attributed to him in understanding her case.

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