Excerpt: ... less happy guesses; but in this, as in predictions as to the weather and other events, the rare successes always get more prominence in the minds of men than the numerous failures. Moreover, whenever a person has been fool enough to resort to folks like myself, he is always glad to be able to defend his conduct by bringing forward every possible proof of skill on the part of the men he has consulted. These considerations, and a certain love of mysterious or unusual means, I have commonly found sufficient to ...
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Excerpt: ... less happy guesses; but in this, as in predictions as to the weather and other events, the rare successes always get more prominence in the minds of men than the numerous failures. Moreover, whenever a person has been fool enough to resort to folks like myself, he is always glad to be able to defend his conduct by bringing forward every possible proof of skill on the part of the men he has consulted. These considerations, and a certain love of mysterious or unusual means, I have commonly found sufficient to secure an ample share of gullible individuals. I may add, too, that those who would be shrewd enough to understand and expose us are wise enough to keep away altogether. Such as did come were, as a rule, easy enough to manage, but now and then we hit upon some utterly exceptional patient who was both foolish enough to consult us and sharp enough to know he had been swindled. When such a fellow made a fuss, it was occasionally necessary to return his money if it was found impossible to bully him into silence. In one or two instances, where I had promised a cure upon prepayment of two or three hundred dollars, I was either sued or threatened with suit, and had to refund a part or the whole of the amount; but most people preferred to hold their tongues rather than expose to the world the extent of their own folly. In one most disastrous case I suffered personally to a degree which I never can recall without a distinct sense of annoyance, both at my own want of care and at the disgusting consequences which it brought upon me. Early one morning an old gentleman called, in a state of the utmost agitation, and explained that he desired to consult the spirits as to a heavy loss which he had experienced the night before. He had left, he said, a sum of money in his pantaloons pocket upon going to bed. In the morning he had changed his clothes and gone out, forgetting to remove the notes. Returning in an hour in great haste, he discovered that the garment...
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Good in None jacket. Ex-library with only light wear but usual library markings (label at spine foot, "withdrawn" stamp on top edge, library stamp & corner clipped on front free endpaper, card pocket remnant on rear endpaper) o/w a nice solid copy---Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press 1968, dark green cloth, hardcover (no dust jacket), 149pp, 5 5/8 x 8 3/4 NOTES-Reprint of 1900 edition published by The Century Co.
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Near Fine. Illustrated by A. J. Keller. A reprint of the 1900 edition. First printing thus. Number stamped on front free endpaper, else about fine in green cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.
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Keller, A. J. Very Good. 149pp. Green cloth hard cover with gilt titles and decoration. Minimal corner rubbing and bumping. Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" Tall Y4.
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1900, The Copp, Clark Company
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First Canadian Edition
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The Copp, Clark Company
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1900
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Engraved bookplate; very slight use to cloth at tops of corners; tight and sound. x, 149 pp. Illustrated by A. J. Keller. 12mo,
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Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by A.J. Keller. Bookplate on the front pastedown, extremities just a trifle rubbed, a very near fine copy of these two long pieces of fiction that first appeared anonymously in *The Atlantic Monthly*. A moderately uncommon title by this important 19th Century physician and novelist.
