 Following this incident, a clearly unwell Caruso gave only three more performances at the Met, the final one being as Eléazar in Halévy's "La Juive", on 24 December 1920.By Christmas Day, the pain in his side was so excruciating that he was screaming.Dorothy summoned the hotel physician, who gave Caruso some morphine and codeine and called in another doctor, Evan M. Evans.