"When a new tendency has passed through its period of incubation and begins to break out on the body artistic, its early manifestations are treated tolerantly, if at all, as a mild case of chicken pox. But as the infection spreads, suspension raises the diagnosis successively to measles, scarlet fever, small pox and leprosy. To his last breath good Doctor Subtle persists in his pharmacy of objurgation for what the laymen has come to recognize as no disease but a change of complexion."