"Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg.
- Irvin S. Cobb
- Date:
- [1915], ©1915
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: "Speaking of operations--" / by Irvin S. Cobb ... illustrations by Tony Sarg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in polite but painful restraint, gills work¬ ing up and down with impatience, eyes brightened with desire, tongue hung in the middle, waiting for you to pause to catch your breath, so that he or she may break in with a few personal recollections along the same line/ From a mere conversation it resolves itself into a symptom symposium, and a perfectly splendid time is had by all. If an operation is such a good thing to talk about, why isn’t it a good thing to write about, too? That is what I wish to know. Besides, I need the money. Verily, one al¬ ways needs the money when one has but recently escaped from the ministering clutches of the modern hospital. There¬ fore I write. It all dates back to the fair, bright morn¬ ing when I went to call on a prominent practitioner here in New York, whom I shall denominate as Doctor X. I had a pain. I had had it for days. It was not a dependable, locatable pain, such as a tummyache or a toothache is, which you can put your hand on; but an indefinite, [15]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817675_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
