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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter III I perform a wonderful cure upon St John Long's principle, having little or no principle of my own?I begin to puzzle- my head with a problem, of all others most difficult to solve. The success of our first attempt encouraged us to proceed; but afraid that I might do some mischief, I asked of Mr Brookes the nature and qualities of the various medicines, as he was mixing the prescriptions, that I might avoid taking any of those which were poisonous. Mr Brookes, pleased with my continual inquiries, gave me all the information I could desire, and thus I gained, not only a great deal of information, but also a great deal of credit with Mr Cophagus, to whom Mr Brookes had made known my diligence and thirst for knowledge. Good?very good, said Mr Cophagus; fine boy? learns his business?M.D. one of these days?ride in his coach?um, and so on. Nevertheless, at my second attempt, I made an awkward mistake, which very nearly led to detection. An Irish labourer, more than half tipsy, came in one evening, and asked whether we had such a thing as was called A poor man's plaister. By the powers, it will be a poor man's plaister when it belongs to me; but they tell me that it is a sure and sartain cure for the thumbago, as they call it, which I've at the small of my back, and which is a hinder to my mounting up the ladder; so as it's Saturday night, and I've just got the money, I'll buy the plaister first, and then try what a little whiskey inside will do; the devil's in it if it won't be driven out of me between the two. We had not that plaister in the shop, but we had blister plaister, and Timothy, handing one to me, I proffered it to him. And what may you be after asking for this same ? inquired he. The blister plaisters were sold at a shilling each, when s...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217522199 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021752219X |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $22.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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