‘But, Doctor, Salin interrupted him, – what if this is not the source of my illness? What if it were only a fortuitous coincidence? Do not you have said yourself that sometimes the theory …?

‘I said and I repeat, that in the current state of human knowledge, your case does not admit any logical explanation. It is a fact whose law is unknown. The relationship today between your nose and find the behavior of the Auvergne, opens a perspective, perhaps misleading, but, without doubt, immense. Wait a few days: If your nose heals as amended Romagna, my theory would be enhanced by a new chance. No answer for nothing, but I sense a physiological law, hitherto unknown, and consider myself very happy if I can ask it. The world of science is full of visible phenomena produced by unknown causes. Why L. .. lady, whom you know as I have on my left shoulder perfectly painted a cherry? Is it, perhaps, as they say, because his mother was pregnant, she felt this great desire that could not meet, eat a basket of cherries displayed in the window of Chevet? What invisible artist has drawn the fruit on the body of a fetus at six weeks, the size of a medium shrimp? How to explain this special action of the moral over the physical? Why cherry Mrs. L. .. acquires some swelling and tenderness in the month of April each year, when the cherry blossom? Here are some true facts, evident, palpable, and as inexplicable as the swelling and redness of your nose. But have patience!

Two days later the swelling was down notary’s nose in a visible, but its red color persisted. At the end of the week, its volume was reduced by more than a third. After two weeks, lost all the skin, immediately raised a new one, and regained its color and shape primitives.

The triumph of the doctor was evident.

‘My only feeling she would say,-is that we have not kept in a cage to Romagna, to observe him at the same time as you, the effects of treatment. I’m sure it has been for seven or eight days, covered with scales like a fish.

– May the devil take him! ‘Observed the notary Christian.