Despite his typically sanctimonious air, marked by ready references to his Harvard Medical School education (enabled not through his own merits but by his grandfather’s lack of pecuniary cares), one might have thought that Lathrop would have judged it rather ineffective to offer his medical bona fides in support of this rather viscous, rancid salve, which,when applied to the eyes as a vulnerary for daltonism, incited merely a reddening of the cornea and a green pallor on the visage of the unfortunate recipient.