Beef tea, rump steak and beer

Hutton brought a brisk sawbones who peered and prodded at my stitches, dosed me with jalup, refused my demand for brandy to take away the taste, but agreed I might have a rump steak instead of the beef tea which they'd been spooning into me in my unconscious state. I told Hutton to make it two, with a pint of beer, and when I'd attended to them and was propped up among my pillows, pale and interesting, he elaborated on what he already told me.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.162, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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That's doctor to you

...and the linseed lancer, taking his cue, muttered about secondary reaction and delayed muscular lesions...


Flashman and the Tiger, p.120, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.



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His exterior suggested

Internally, as the quack said, he might be in A1 trim, but his exterior suggested James I dying.

Flashman's Lady, p.56, Pan edition, 1979.

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Working like fury

Apart from a broken nose, his skull was fractured in the fall, and for a couple of days he hung on the edge, with a Bristol horse-leech working like fury to save him from going over.

Flash For Freedom!, p.38, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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