A poor boy was selling clothes door-to-door to pay for his education and had only 10 cents left. Hungry, he asked a woman at her door for food but instead she brought him a large glass of milk which he drank slowly. Years later, the woman fell ill and Doctor Howard Kelly was called in to treat her rare illness. He recognized her as the woman who had shown him kindness with the glass of milk long ago. With special attention to her case, Doctor Kelly was eventually able to cure her illness.