“Soon after my marriage I bought a medical practice in Paddington. At one time, the old man, Dr. Farquhar, who sold it to me, was doing very well, but then age and illness - he suffered from something like St. Vitus's dance - led to a noticeable decrease in patients. People, and this is natural, proceed from the principle that the doctor himself should not get sick, and are suspicious of the healing abilities of someone who cannot prescribe the right medicine for himself...”