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willing to be influenced by their doctor, to
depend upon him too much, to imagine he is the
only one who can understand them, to
hero-worship him.[1] As far as I know there is no way
of getting rid of these patients, any suggestion
in that direction would be welcomed by me. To
write to their families to come and take them
home is useless. All their relations have got
tired of them long ago and will stop at no sacrifice
to make them remain with you. I well remember
a dejected-looking little man who entered my
consulting-room one day after my other patients
had gone. He sank down on a chair and handed
me his card. His very name was hateful to me,
Mr. Charles W. Washington Longfellow Perkins,
Junior. He apologized for not having answered
my two letters and my cable, he had preferred
to come himself to make a last appeal to me. I
repeated my request, I said it was not fair to
throw the whole burden of Mrs. Perkins, Junior on
me, I could do no more. He said neither could
he. He said he was a business man, he wanted
to treat the question on business lines, he was
willing to part with half of his annual income
payable in advance. I said it was not a question
of money, I was in need of rest. Did he know
that for more than three months she had been
bombarding me with letters at an average rate
of three letters a day, and that I had had to stop
my telephone in the evening? Did he know that
she had bought the fastest horses in Rome and
was following me all over the town, that I had
had to give up my evening walks on the Pincio?
Did he know that she had taken a flat in the
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