. Wisconsin medical recorder . estood on Washington streetin the city of Baltimore,a stone house, probably thelargest and oldest edificein the vicinity—standinglike an owl on sentry—with its long, rounded cor-nice windows ogling overa thick stone wall at thefront, its wing-like walls,with their flat roof, while two greatchimneys above the oval windows re-sembled huge ears. It had a mouthydoorway, grim and dole. A number ofelms grew neglected in the broad plotin the front and scraped their gnarledboughs against a lattice porch allcovered with tangled creepers. Up theside of the house and festoo
. Wisconsin medical recorder . estood on Washington streetin the city of Baltimore,a stone house, probably thelargest and oldest edificein the vicinity—standinglike an owl on sentry—with its long, rounded cor-nice windows ogling overa thick stone wall at thefront, its wing-like walls,with their flat roof, while two greatchimneys above the oval windows re-sembled huge ears. It had a mouthydoorway, grim and dole. A number ofelms grew neglected in the broad plotin the front and scraped their gnarledboughs against a lattice porch allcovered with tangled creepers. Up theside of the house and festooning the win-dows had crept for many a year a mon-ster ivy. It had been allowed to creepwhere it would without training. Timehad made constant endeavor to leavehis handwriting in the shape of mossmarks in the creviceshere and there, butthe watchful ivywould hunt them outand tendrils aftertendrils would coverthe decrepitude. Thehouse had beencaught in the long,red brick flats of thegrowing city, but stillstood back from the. street in the privacy of itsown grounds. A windingpath, lined with laurelbushes and beds of myrtle,led to the entrance. A brass plate on thedoor of this owlish housell bore the name, Franz MSI Steinbrenner, M. D. The ^ggm cw. physician was a singularman, devoted to his pro-fession* and although he had settled buta few years in the monumental city, hehad acquired a large practice. He wasalways immersed in thought, and rarelyentered into conversation on any sub-ject excepting those immediately con-nected with his profession. Dr. Steinbrenner was an experimen-talist. He might be called heterodox inhis views on the subject of medicine,for he condemned no innovations untilhe had tested them himself, and thenif he found them worthless, he madea business of exposing their preten-sions in the medicalpublications. Among other thingsthat claimed his at-tention was the sub-ject of electricity. Tothis strange principlein nature he devotedmore than commonattention, a
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