This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...Pater an'int his body as it stands the night before the gate!" cried the distressed wife. "Och! honey, docther, yer honor," moaned the patient, "is there niver a thing to aise the pain of suffering?" The physician in attendance was delicacy itself. Carefully the twisted limb of the man was massaged out of its spasm. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...Pater an'int his body as it stands the night before the gate!" cried the distressed wife. "Och! honey, docther, yer honor," moaned the patient, "is there niver a thing to aise the pain of suffering?" The physician in attendance was delicacy itself. Carefully the twisted limb of the man was massaged out of its spasm. From a half-grain of morphia, a trifle of atropine, ten drops of warm water, and a hypodermic syringe was quickly constructed a ladder upon which descended the Angel of Ease. "All the blissed saints bear witness," cried the old woman, in ecstasy, "it's a meracle!" So it was. The wife fell on her knees before the crucifix and told her beads; the doctor turned his mind to the perfectness of laws, thanking God for the trifle of knowledge he possessed of them. "Sure, docther," exclaimed the old woman, getting up, "it's a great thing to be larned." That was a remark, coming even from the lips of ignorance, to fix Broadcloth. He forgot for a moment all about the woman and patient. "Larned," he repeated; "a great thing, indeed. To be 'larned' would be to possess certainty that the earth, in itself, is as free of evil as water is of nitrogen; would be to understand that felicity is under and about a man as gravitation is under and about the planet. 'Larned!' " the partner added to the word a contemptuous laugh. In a moment had disappeared the sense of thankfulness expressed a moment before for what he had been able to acquire in his thirty years of professional life: a black cloud, made up of apprehension of his ignorance, had fallen over him. "Corduroy," he said, "possess a doctor of a full knowledge of medicine, and of the laws pertaining to life and li...
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