[West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon]@TWC D-Link bookWest Wind Drift CHAPTER VI 5/47
"The more we stuff into people the more they want, and the less they take the sooner they forget they're sick. As your doctor, from this time on, I shall be delighted to set your broken bones, sew up your gashes, and all that sort of thing, but it is precious little medicine I'll give to you.
So don't get sick.
The only epidemic we can have here, according to my judgment, is an epidemic of good health.
Am I right, gentlemen ?" The two young American doctors put aside their dignity and grinned. The wines and liquors from the Doraine were brought ashore and locked away in the cellar beneath the warehouse.
It could be had only on the doctor's orders. "It won't hurt any of us to drink nothing but water for awhile," said Percival in discussing the matter; "and the chances are we'll be less likely to hurt each other if we let the grog alone.
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