A VICTIM TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN FATAL MALADIES (after Jerome K. Jerome) I

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 986.

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And yet, isn't it funny? You and I and the rest of us - even if we __ (to know) all this - as soon as we ___ (to feel) a pain we ___ (to run) for a doctor as fast as we can.

I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight illness of which I had a touch... I ___ (to get) down the book and ___ (to read) all I ___ (to come) to read and then, in an unthinking moment, I ___ (to turn) the pages and ___ (to begin) to study illnesses generally. I ___ (to forget) which ___ (to be) the first I ___ (to read) but before I ___ (to look) down the list of symptoms I ___ (to be) sure that I ___ (to have) it. I ___ (to sit) for a time in horror; and then again ___ (to turn) over the pages. I ___ (to come) to typhoid fever - ___ (to read) the symptoms - ___ (to discover) that I ___ (to have) typhoid fever - ___ (to wonder) what else I __ (to have) and so ___ (to start) to read alphabetically. I ___ (to read) through the twenty-six letters and ___ (to find) out that I ___ (to have) all the illnesses but one. I __ (to sit) and ___ (to think) what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view. Students ___ (to have) no need to walk to the hospital if they ___ (to have) me. I ___ (to be) a hospital in myself. All they ___ (to need) to do ___ (to be) to walk round me, and after that to take their diploma. Then I ___ (to wonder) how long I ___ (to have) to live. I ___ (to try) to examine myself. I ___ (to feel) my pulse. I ___ (cannot) at first feel my pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it ___ (to seem) to start off. I ___ (to take) out my watch and ___ (to time) it. I ___ (to make) it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I ___ (to try) to feel my heart. But I ___ (cannot) feel or hear anything... I ___ (to go) to my medical man. He ___ (to be) an old friend of mine, and ___ (to feel) my pulse, and ___ (to talk) about the weather, all for nothing, when I ___ (to think) I ___ (to be) ill.
"What a doctor ___ (to want)", I ___ (to say), "___ (to be) practice. He ___ (to have) me. He ___ (to get) more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred patients".