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Show A PHYSICIAN'S CRIME HELD INTERESTS OF SCIENCE JUSTIFIED MURDER. Fearful Length to Which Mania for Knowledge Led Prominent Portuguese Portu-guese Doctor Form of Insanity Not Unknown to the Medical World. A strange story comes from Lisbon. A famous doctor resides in that city of the name of Jiminez y Caratcz. His reputation extends all over Portugal, Spain and France. He is a graduate of the Vienna school of the medical University of Paris and before beginning begin-ning his practice ten or twelve years ago, made a tour of the world, studying study-ing the methods used in hospitals and interchanging views with the leading piactilioners of both hemispheres. hemi-spheres. By the time lie had returned to his home his fame had preceded him. He remained in his office from sunrise to sunset, and his time was wholly occupied. "About a year ago," said Senor Del-vio, Del-vio, "a pale, emaciated young man walked into the doctor's office. The doctor, being finite busy, spent but a few moments on the case. He gavo him a thump here and put bis ear over the lungs. He was less than a minute min-ute telling him that he had consumption, consump-tion, and that his days were numbered. number-ed. There was, said' the doctor, no medicine that would prolong life. The young man looked at him appealingly. "'I have wealth,' said he. 'There is i-othing money can buy that I could procure. Can you not do something?" "The great physician hesitated. Ho told him that he had heard that if one whose lungs were diseased would subsist entirely upon watercress the vegetable would work wonders. But he had never seen a case so treated; he had simply heard In a roundabout way that the water cress would resist re-sist the assaults of tuberculosis. "The upshot of It was that the young man tool; the next steamer for southern France. There he ate nothing noth-ing but water cress six, eight, ten times a day. He sat in the sunshine, abstained from tobacco, but occasionally occasion-ally drank a bottle of rod wine. "Six months elapsed, when one day a bright-eyed, red-cheeked, heavy-breasted heavy-breasted young man walked into the doctor's office. The doctor did not recognize him. " 'Ah. I sop that yon do not remember remem-ber me,' he said to the physician. "The latter confessed that he did not. " 'Don't you remember the man you sent to southern France to eat water cress?' "The great physician's eyes were aflame at once. Hurriedly he went to his desk, withdrew a pistol and shot the young man In the head. In another moment the doctor had a knife and was dissecting bis victim. He had the lungs bare almost before the young man's breath had left him. When the others in the waiting room rushed in to inquire the cause of the shooting the doctor chased them out. Soon the police arrived and the physician physi-cian was arrested. "In explanation of his crime the doctor said that he wished to examine exam-ine the lungs of the man before life was entirely extinct to discover, if possible, what influence the water cress treatment had produced, and in extenuation of his act he said that, inasmuch as he had savd the man's life, in the interest of scUnce he had a right to take it. "The tragedy shook every household house-hold of Lisbon, where the families of both the physician and the murdered murder-ed man were well known. It still remains the chief topic of conversation. conversa-tion. Meantime the physician Is in Jail awaiting trial." |