CHAPTER XXXI.
REFLECTIONS.
It is sometimes said that fashion rules the world, and it is certain that the sceptre of the fickle goddess is often observed in the province of medicine. The force of example is incalculable. In this country each class in society is always striving to imitate in appearance some class above it; and such individuals as can, are ever making efforts to attain the highest rank. When their property or business relations will not allow them the position to which they would aspire—when dress, and show, and every other expedient, fails, they have one dernier resort; they can have, or pretend to have, some fashionable disease, and be waited upon by the most fashionable physician in town. The doctor who attends Mrs. Judge and Mrs. Gen. , will of course be chosen. It is wonderful to see how many persons make it a regular business to
