Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1901 — Flattery All Too Sincere. [ARTICLE]

Flattery All Too Sincere.

Addressing his students. Dr. Wyllie, the professor of medicine in Edinburgh University, adduced an experience of his that is not without its literary moral. He was called one day to see a young man. As lie was entering the house the patient’s sister exclaimed: “Oh, it’s all that horrid book!” Inquiry elicited the fact that the patient’s favorite reading was “Sherlock Holmes.” The young man wus in a very low state, and his ( 'l-tale arm was dotted with hypodermic punctures. His admiration for the most popular of paper detectives had betrayed him into the cocaine habit.—Academy.