The physicians who attended Queen Caroline had five hundred guineas, and the surgeons three hundred guineas each; Dr. Willis was rewarded for his attendance on George III. by L1,500 per annum for twenty years, and L650 per annum to his son for life. The other physicians, however, had only thirty guineas each visit to Windsor, and ten guineas each visit to Kew. Dr. Abernethy was annoyed by a lady needlessly consulting him about her tongue. One morning she came, as he was descending the steps from his door and putting on his gloves. She said:--"Doctor, I'm so glad I have caught you!" The doctor asked if it were the old trouble. On her saying "Yes," he told her to put out her tongue. She did so, and he said, "Stand there till I come," and left her so, in the street, setting out on his round of visits. Once when prescribing nutritious and expensive diet for a young man in consumption, he observed the look of despair on the young wife's face, and the evidence of straitened circumstances around; when the lady appealed to him, asking if there was really nothing else he could suggest for her husband. He replied:--"When I think of it, I'll send along a box of pills in the afternoon!" A messenger brought the box. On the lid was written "One every day," and, on being opened, it was found to contain twenty guineas! He once bluntly told a _bon-vivant_ gentleman to "Live on sixpence a day, and earn it!" Long ago, a friend told me of a lady in Devonshire, belonging to a family she knew, who read medical books, and at length imagined she had every disease under the sun. Whenever she discovered what she believed to be a new symptom, she at once went off to consult different medical men regarding it, spending several hundreds a year in this way, and all quite needlessly. At length she confided to her friends that since doctors differed so widely, and she could obtain no satisfaction as to what ailed her, she had resolved to go to town and consult one of the Queen's physicians.