The Narrative of John Smith by Arthur Conan Doyle & Jon Lellenberg

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle & Jon Lellenberg [Doyle, Arthur Conan & Lellenberg, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Literary
ISBN: 9780712358415
Google: XfMengEACAAJ
Amazon: 0712358412
Publisher: British Library
Published: 2011-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

THE GOUT is leaving me. I feel it clearing slowly away like the mist from a mountain top. Fresh warm healthy blood is tingling in every vein. It is worth being ill to feel the glow of returning health. I am still weak and languid though – bad cess to the ailment which brought me so low. In the name of the great army of the gouty – of all the innumerable bulbous-toed battalions – I anathematise it with the great curse of the Bishop Ernulphus which embraces all curses which ever have been or which ever shall be.99 Even the kind heart of my Uncle Toby could hardly object to my employing this tremendous weapon upon such an object.100

I was in such high spirits this morning that I set to work fixing up a little jeu d’esprit for Dr Julep. We had had one or two chats over the very different views taken of the British Pharmacopeia by various medical authorities, so I epitomised the fact in a quatrain:

Doctors agree that with potions and pills

You may readily cure the whole of life’s ills

But each one, alas, has his different notions

As to what sort of pills and what sort of potions101

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