Trip 4891 of 5400 collection book40
The apothecary being summoned finds her ladyship in such a delicate situationbook17 that he declines prescribing and advises her to send for a physician without delay. Jamess Park without betrayingbook75 the least token of recognition so that one would imagine these mineral waters were so many streams issuing from the river Lethe so famed of old for washing away all traces of memory and recollection. In his researches he found that the great world was wholly engrossed by a few practitioners who had arrived at the summit of reputation consequently were no longer obliged to cultivate those arts by which they rose and that the rest of the business was parcelled out into small enclosures occupied by different groups of personages male and female who stood in rings and tossed the ball from one to another there being in each department two sets the individuals of which relieved one another occasionally.... read all
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