With all consideration for the many admirable virtues of _la cure Sypher_, yet there were certain maladies of the skin for which he personally would not prescribe it.

For this, for that--he rattled off half a dozen of learned diseases--it might very well be efficacious.

Its effect would probably be benign in a case of elephantiasis.

But in a case of abrasion of the cuticle, where there was a large surface of raw flesh laid bare, perhaps a simpler treatment might be more desirable.
His tone was exquisite, and he chose his language so that not a word could wound.

Sypher listened to him with a sinking heart.
"In your opinion then, doctor," said he, "it isn't a good thing for blistered heels ?" "You ask for my opinion," replied the professor of dermatology at the University of Geneva.