"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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![No; make it seven-fifteen. Have impor¬ tant tumor case at seven. St. Germicide’s Hospital. You know the place?—up on Umpty-umph Street. Go’ day! Miss Who- ziz, call next visitor.” And before I realized that practically the whole affair had been settled I was outside the consultation-room in a small private hall, and the secretary was telling me further details would be conveyed to me by mail. I went home in a dazed state. For the first time I was beginning to learn something about an industry in which here¬ tofore I had never been interested. Espe¬ cially was I struck by the difference now re¬ vealed to me in the preliminary stages of the surgeons’ business as compared with their fellow experts in the allied cutting trades—tailors, for instance, not to mention barbers. Every barber, you know, used to be a surgeon, only he spelled it chirurgeon. Since then the two professions have drifted far apart. Even a half-witted barber—the kind who always has the first chair as you come into the shop—can easily spend ten minutes of your time thinking of things he [29]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817675_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
