"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.
67/78 page 57
![here is something that ought to be looked into right away—and immediately open a bag and start picking out the proper utensils. You go into a doctor’s office and tell him you do not feel the best in the world—and he gives you a look and excuses himself, and steps into the next room and begins greasing a saw. Mind you, in these casual observations as compiled by me while bedfast and here given utterance, I am not seeking to dis¬ parage possibly the noblest of professions. Lately I have owed much to it. I am strictly on the doctor’s side. He is with us when we come into the world and with us when we go out of it, oftentimes lending a helping hand on both occasions. Anyway, our sympathies should especially go out to the medical profession at this particular time when the anti-vivisectionists are railing so loudly against the doctors. The anti¬ vivisection crusade has enlisted widely dif¬ ferent classes in the community, including many lovers of our dumb-animal pets— and aren’t some of them the dumbest things you ever saw!—especially chow dogs and love birds. [57]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817675_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
