| Author: | Joseph Le Fanu | ISBN: | 9781911429432 |
| Publisher: | Interactive Media | Publication: | May 15, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Fractal Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Joseph Le Fanu |
| ISBN: | 9781911429432 |
| Publisher: | Interactive Media |
| Publication: | May 15, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Fractal Press |
| Language: | English |
Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. The cause was a very trifling scratch inflicted by a dissecting knife. This trifle cost me the loss of two fingers, amputated promptly, and the more painful loss of my health, for I have never been quite well since, and have seldom been twelve months together in the same place.
Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. The cause was a very trifling scratch inflicted by a dissecting knife. This trifle cost me the loss of two fingers, amputated promptly, and the more painful loss of my health, for I have never been quite well since, and have seldom been twelve months together in the same place.
