It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.

“Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.”

The next time I saw Miss Churm after this incident she surprised me greatly by making a scene about it—she accused me of having wished to humiliate her.

Nearly thirty years before the date of Addison's discovery, his eminent colleague, Dr. Bright, had observed and recorded, in his celebrated 'Reports of Medical Cases,' a case of Addison's disease.