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"Well, doctor, decide our fate," said the princess "Tell "

"Is there hope?" she meant to say, but her lips quivered, and she

could not utter the question "Well, doctor?"

"Iue,

and then I will have the honor of laying my opinion before you"

"So we had better leave you?"

"As you please"

The princess went out with a sigh

When the doctors were left alone, the fa his opinion, that there was a commencement of

tuberculous trouble, butand so on The celebrated doctor

listened to hiold watch

"Yes," said he "But"

The family doctor respectfully ceased in the middle of his

observations

"The commencement of the tuberculous process we are not, as you

are aware, able to define; till there are cavities, there is

nothing definite But we may suspect it And there are

indications; malnutrition, nervous excitability, and so on The

question stands thus: in presence of indications of tuberculous

process, what is to be done to maintain nutrition?"