"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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![it had already disagreed with you. The nurse said this food was predigested but did not tell me by whom. Nor did I ask her. I started to, but thought better of it. Sometimes one is all the happier for not knowing too much. fA little later on, seeing that I had not suffered an attack of indigestion from this debauch, they gave me junket. In the dic¬ tionary I have looked up the definitions of junket. I quote: Junket, v. I. t. To entertain by feasting; regale. II. i. To give or take part in an entertainment or excursion; feast in com¬ pany; picnic; revel. JUNKET, n. A merry feast or excursion; picnic. When the author of a dictionary tries to be frivolous he only succeeds in making himself appear foolish. I know not how it may be in the world at large, but in a hospital, junket is a cus¬ tard that by some subtle process has been denuded of those ingredients which make a custard fascinating and exciting. It tastes as though the eggs, which form its under¬ lying basis, had been laid in a fit of pique [62]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29817675_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
