Catastrophic Illness

[rabidsamfan]

The boots caught it first and then the maid, which proved how convenient it was to have a valetudinarian physician for a tenant, confined to the house though he was by wind-blown snow. A tenant who confined his chemical experiments to concoctions found in Squire's Companion to the British Pharmacopoeia for the duration of the foul weather was useful too, although he was next to succumb to cough and fever. The coal cellar was full, the larder well-stocked. They muddled along quite adequately until the landlady took to her bed.

The Army does not teach its surgeons to make coffee.






xposted to Watson's Woes.