Showing posts with label medical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical. Show all posts

Monday, 12 March 2012

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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Monday, 8 December 2008

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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