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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: 155 THE ANATOMIST. .tlaving occasion for the aid of a medical man, I requested my landlady to send me the person who was nearest at hand, to have a little conversation with him on the subject of compounding a medicine, for which I intended to give him the prescription of my physician. In consequence of this, while taking my breakfast, I heard the slow and cautious footsteps of a stranger on the staircase, approaching, followed by a light quick tap on the door of my apartment. On its opening, responsive to my desire, there entered a little thin old man with a Voltaire-sort of visage, surmounted by a stiff half-powdered wig, from the rear of which there pended a tail of considerable length, but of inconsiderable thickness. His garments were a sort of rhubarb- coloured ditto, and he bore in his hand a cane, with an ivory-crutched top to it. He refused to partake of what was upon my table, as he had long before broken his fast, but he sat down to hear my complaint, when, opening upon the subject of my consultation with him, I handed him my prescription. Laying down his shovel- hat with great deliberation, and placing as carefully upon it the aforesaid walking-stick, he stood up and drew from his pocket a pair of spectacles, which he took some time to open, more to wipe clean, and still more to fix upon the ill-stuffed saddle of his nose. This accomplished, he decyphered the hieroglyphic, (for such I think the writing of a physician commonly is, ) took a second reading of it, sat down again, and disburdened his nose of his glasses. After a pause, during which he rolled up the paper and deposited it in gurgite vasto of his breeches pocket, he thus addressed me: ? Though my profession, Sir, is rather that of a surgeon than an apothecary, yet your dose shall be carefully mixed, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217114486 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217114482 |
| Weight | 0.51 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 150 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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