Three Men in a Boat
Автор книги Jerome K. Jerome
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There were four of us. George, William, Samuel Harris, myself. My friends call me Jay and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room and were smoking and talking about our bad health. We were all feeling very ill, and we were unhappy about it.
Harris said he felt dizzy sometimes. George felt dizzy, too. My big problem was my liver. I knew I had a bad liver. I knew I had a bad liver.
I had read about all the symptoms of liver disease in a book. I had every symptom that was written. Every time I read about an illness, I realize that I have it. One day I had a little health problem. I went to the British Museum library to read about it.
After some time, I began reading about another illness. I don't remember the name now, but it was something terrible. I knew I had that terrible illness, too. I began reading the book from the letter A to the letter Z's. I had the symptoms of all the diseases in the book, except for one.
I didn't have housemaid's knee. This made me a bit unhappy. Why didn't I have housemaid's knee too? With all the diseases I had, I knew my life was short. I tried to examine myself.
I tried to examine myself. I tried to feel my heart. I tried to look at my tongue. When I had walked into the library. I had been a happy, healthy man.
When I left it, I was a very ill man. I went to see my doctor. He is an old friend. Whenever I think I am ill, he examines me and says I am fine. A doctor really must have practice.
This time I thought, he will get more practice with me than with a thousand normal patients. After all, normal patients have only one or two diseases each. Well, what's wrong with you? He asked. I said, If I tell you what is wrong with me, you will die before I finish.
Life is too sure. I'll tell you what is not wrong with me. I don't have Housemaid's knee, but I have everything else. I told him about what I had read at the library. He looked at me carefully.
He listened to my heart and looked at my tongue. After that, he wrote a prescription I and gave it to me. I put it in my pocket and went out. I didn't read the prescription. I took it to the chemist and gave it to him.
He read it and gave it back to me. He said, I don't have the things on the prescription. But you're a chemist, aren't you? I ask. He said, you're right, sir.
I'm a chemist. I don't have a shop in a hotel. I read the prescription. It said, every 6 hours, ELB of good fresh meat, pint of beer every morning. Every morning, my ten mile walk.
Go to bed no later than I o'clock each night and don't read books about things you don't understand. I followed the doctor's prescription. It saved my life. I now feel rather well, except for my liver problem. The main symptom of liver disease is a general feeling of sleepiness and no interest in working.
I have suffered from this illness ever since I was a boy. Medical science was not advanced in those days. Doctors did not know that I had liver illness. They thought I was lazy. People called me a lazy little devil and said go and do your work.
They did not know I was ill with liver disease. Instead of giving me liver pills, they gave me blows on the head. Those blows were good for me because after each blow I went to do my work. That old remedy worked better than a box of modern pills.