Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873 / 2008-06-03 00:00:00
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GREEN TEA
1871
MR. JUSTICE HARBOTTLE
1872
By
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
GREEN TEA
PROLOGUE
_Martin Hesselius, the German Physician_
Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never
practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest
me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the
honourable calling which I had just entered. The cause was a very
trifling scratch inflicted by a dissecting knife. This trifle cost me
the loss of two fingers, amputated promptly, and the more painful loss
of my health, for I have never been quite well since, and have seldom
been twelve months together in the same place.
In my wanderings I became acquainted with Dr. Martin Hesselius, a
wanderer like myself, like me a physician, and like me an enthusiast in
his profession. Unlike me in this, that his wanderings were voluntary,
and he a man, if not of fortune, as we estimate fortune in England, at
least in what our forefathers used to term "easy circumstances.
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