"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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![command, passed out through the door at the back, vanishing out of my life forever. None of them returned. I was vaguely wondering whether Doctor Z buried his dead on the premises or had them removed by a secret passageway in the rear, when a young woman in a nurse’s costume tapped me on the shoulder from behind. I jumped. She hid a compassionate smile with her hand and told me that the doctor would see me now. As I rose to follow her—still clinging with the drowning man’s grip of despera¬ tion to my hat and my umbrella—I was astonished to note by a glance at the cal¬ endar on the wall that this was still the present date. I thought it would be Thurs¬ day of next week at the very least. Doctor Z also wore whiskers, carefully pointed up by an expert hedge trimmer. He sat at his desk, surrounded by freewill offerings from grateful patients and by glass cases containing other things he had taken away from them when they were not in a condition to object. I had expected, after all the preliminary ceremonies and [26]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817675_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
