She disconcertingly inquired what he would do with patients who had sustained fractured skulls, developed cancers, or been exposed to smallpox.

But the man before her proposed to deal with none of those disagreeable things, or their like.

He was going to make fame and fortune in the world by treating mental and muscular troubles.

He was going to be a Zonoletic Doctor.

He turned teacher and spelled it for her, because she never had heard the word.