"It seems irrational. Then in _my daughter's_ case you would----"

"Looksee! A pashint falls sick. What haps directly? Why the balance is
troubled, and exhaustion exceeds repair. For proof obsairve the buddy
when Disease is fresh!

And you will always find a loss of flesh

to put it economikly, and then you must understand it, bein a
housekeeper--

Whativer the Disease, its form or essence,
Expinditure goes on, and income lessens.

But to this sick and therefore weak man, comes a Docker purblind with
cinturies of Cant, Pricidint, Blood, and Goose Greece; imagines him a
fiery pervalid, though the common sense of mankind through its
interpreter common language, pronounces him an 'invalid,' gashes him with
a lancet, spills out the great liquid material of all repair by the
gallon, and fells this weak man, wounded now, and pale, and fainting,
with Dith stamped on his face, to th' earth, like a bayoneted soldier or
a slaughtered ox. If the weak man, wounded thus, and weakened, survives,
then the chartered Thugs who have drained him by the bung-hole, turn to
and drain him by the spigot; they blister him, and then calomel him: and
lest Nature should have the ghost of a chance to conterbalance these
frightful outgoings, they keep strong meat and drink out of his system
emptied by their stabs, bites, purges, mercury, and blisters; damdijjits!
And that, Asia excipted, was profissional Midicine from Hippocrates to
Sampsin. Antiphlogistic is but a modern name for an ass-ass-inating
rouutine which has niver varied a hair since scholastic midicine, the