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“I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is not the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I have got.”
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And I told him how I came to discover it all.
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Then he opened me and looked down me, and clutched hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn’t expecting it—a cowardly thing to do, I call it—and immediately afterward butted me with the side of his head. After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
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I did not open it. I took it to the nearest chemist’s and handed it in. The man read it and then handed it back. He said he didn’t keep it.
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I said:
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“You are a chemist?”
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“I am a chemist. If I were a coöperative store and family hotel combined I might be able to oblige you. Being only a chemist hampers me.”
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I read the prescription. It ran:
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“I lb. beefsteak, every 6 hours.
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I ten-mile walk every morning.
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I bed at 11 sharp every night.
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And don’t stuff up your head with things you don’t understand.”
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Notes
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British Museum, the national repository in London for treasures in literature, science, and art. The library is added to each year by the copyright law requiring the deposit of a copy of every book and other publication printed in the United Kingdom.
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ailment, illness; sickness; indisposition.
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touch, twinge or light attack of fever.
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hay fever, an inflammatory affection of the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, or air passages, usually occurring in spring or late summer.
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indolently, lazily;idly;in a habitually idle manner.Idle （opposed to busy ）emphasizes the fact of inactivity or lack of occupation; lazy suggests disinclination to effort or work;indolent implies a habitual love of ease and a settled dislike of activity; slothful （now bookish） implies excessive and sluggish indolence.
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distemper, ailment; sickness; malady.
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devastating, destructive disease; a severe calamity or affliction.
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premonitory symptoms, perceptible or noticeable change, in the body or its functions, indicating disease.
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frozen with horror, in great fear or abhorrence.
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listlessness, indifference; not caring nor desiring.
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typhoid fever, an infectious feverish, often fatal, disease due to a bacillus or germ introduced usually with food or drink, and marked by intestinal inflammation or swelling, and ulceration.
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St. Vitus’s Dance, or chorea, a disease attended with convulsive twitchings.
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