It caused the most intense pain, but the patient bore it with his usual equanimity.

The family physician accidentally calling one day, found the Duke with flushed cheeks and bloodshot eyes, and when he rose he staggered about like a drunken man.

The doctor asked to be permitted to look at his ear, and then he found that a furious inflammation was going on, which, if not immediately checked, must shortly reach the brain and kill him.

Vigorous remedies were at once applied, and the inflammation was checked.

But the hearing of that ear was completely destroyed.