"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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![unsettled, undecided kind of pain, which went wandering about from place to place inside of me like a strange ghost lost ia Cudjo’s Cave. I never knew until then what the personal sensations of a haunted house are. If only the measly thing could have made up its mind to settle down some¬ where and start light housekeeping I think I should have been better satisfied. I never had such an uneasy tenant. Alongside of it a woman with the moving fever would be comparatively a fixed and stationary object. Having always, therefore, enjoyed per¬ fectly riotous and absolutely unbridled health, never feeling weak and distressed unless dinner happened to be ten or fifteen minutes late, I was green regarding phy¬ sicians and the ways of physicians. But I knew Doctor X slightly, having met him last summer in one of his hours of ease in the grand stand at a ball game, when he was expressing a desire to cut the umpire’s throat from ear to ear, free of charge; and I remembered his name, and remembered, too, that he had impressed me at the time [16]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817675_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
