"Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 percent from the curative power of medicines."
Answer: Option D.
Step-by-step explanation:
This has been taken from the story "The last leaf". This story has been written by William Sydney Porter. This story is about a girl who name is Johnsy who is suffering from a disease.
The disease she is suffering from the pneumonia and because of this her chances of survival are very less. Then the doctor who is treating her, in order to give her will and power tells her that the will to live and fight the sickness with the medicines cures a person.