Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon
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I have had patients enough in a busy life as a working surgeon, you may be sure, but of all that I have had, young or old, give me your genuine, simple-hearted working man; for whether he be down with an ordinary sickness or an extraordinary accident, he is always the same-enduring, forbearing, hopeful, and with that thorough faith in his medical man that does so much towards helping on a cure. Wealthy patients as a rule do not possess that faith in their doctor. They always seem to expect that a disease which has been coming on, perhaps, for months, can be cured right off in a few hours by a ...
Chapters (47)(click to expand)
- George Manville Fenn "Adventures of Working Men" "From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon"
- Chapter One.
- My Patients.
- Chapter Two.
- My Patient the Stoker.
- Chapter Three.
- My Patient the Well-Sinker.
- Chapter Four.
- My Underground Patient.
- Chapter Five.
- My Black Patient.
- Chapter Six.
- My Sheffield Patient.
- Chapter Seven.
- My Non-Striking Patient.
- Chapter Eight.
- My Patient, the Driver.
- Chapter Nine.
- My Patient at the Fire.
- Chapter Ten.
- My Patients at the Mine.
- Chapter Eleven.
- My Scalded Patient.
- Chapter Twelve.
- My Patient the Captain.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- My Patient the Quarryman.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- My Patients the Fishermen.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- My Patient the Porter.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- My Patient the Carpenter.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- My Patient the Warehouseman.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- My Patient in the River Police.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- My Patient the Emigrant.
- Chapter Twenty.
- My Emigrant Patient’s Friend.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- My Patient the Prison Warder.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- My Patient the Sailor.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- My Patient Who Never Pays—Myself.
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