Section 108. Experience Is the Best Teacher⁠

A French student of (S. 3, N. 2) medicine lodged⁠ in the same house in London with a man in a fever. This poor man was constantly plagued by the nurse to drink, though⁠ he nauseated the insipid liquids that were presented to him. At last, when she⁠ grew more and more importunate, he whispered in her (S. 43, N. 9, B) ear:—“For⁠ God’s sake bring me a salt herring, and I will drink as much as you please⁠!”

The woman indulged⁠ him in his request; he devoured the herring, drank plentifully, underwent⁠ a copious perspiration, and recovered⁠.

The French student inserted this aphorism⁠ in his journal⁠:—“A salt herring cures⁠ an Englishman in a fever.”

On⁠ his return to (S. 72, N. 4) France he prescribed the same remedy to the first patient in a fever⁠ to whom he was called.

The patient died; on which⁠ the student inserted⁠ in his journal the following note:—“N.B. Though a salt herring cures an Englishman, it⁠ kills a Frenchman.”—W. C. Hazlitt, Anecdotes.

Lehrerin, to agree with ‘experience’, which is feminine in German.

Here place the words ‘in London — fever’; a man in a fever, ein Fieberkranker.

Construe the sentence ‘though — him’ after the following model: Die mir gereichten geschmacklosen Getränke widern mich an.

Here place the adv. ‘at last’; more and more importunate, immer zudringlicher.

Um Gotteswillen.

wollen.

to indulge a request, einer Bitte willfahren.

to undergo a copious perspiration, in tüchtigen Schweiß geraten (str. v.).

genesen, str. v.

Lehrsatz.

Form a comp. n. of ‘day’ and ‘book’ according to S. 76, N. 22, C.

kurieren; in a, vom.

Say ‘When he had returned to France’.

on which = whereupon.

schreiben, after which place ‘following note’.

so stirbt ein Franzose daran.