Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon

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Fenn George Manville. Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon

Chapter One. My Patients

Chapter Two. My Patient the Stoker

Chapter Three. My Patient the Well-Sinker

Chapter Four. My Underground Patient

Chapter Five. My Black Patient

Chapter Six. My Sheffield Patient

Chapter Seven. My Non-Striking Patient

Chapter Eight. My Patient, the Driver

Chapter Nine. My Patient at the Fire

Chapter Ten. My Patients at the Mine

Chapter Eleven. My Scalded Patient

Chapter Twelve. My Patient the Captain

Chapter Thirteen. My Patient the Quarryman

Chapter Fourteen. My Patients the Fishermen

Chapter Fifteen. My Patient the Porter

Chapter Sixteen. My Patient the Carpenter

Chapter Seventeen. My Patient the Warehouseman

Chapter Eighteen. My Patient in the River Police

Chapter Nineteen. My Patient the Emigrant

Chapter Twenty. My Emigrant Patient’s Friend

Chapter Twenty One. My Patient the Prison Warder

Chapter Twenty Two. My Patient the Sailor

Chapter Twenty Three. My Patient Who Never Pays – Myself

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I would not wish for a better specimen of faith and confidence than was shown by one of my patients, Edward Brown, a stoker, with whose little narrative I will commence my sketches.

“Ah! doctor,” he said one day, “I wish you had had to do with me when I came back from the East.”

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“‘Thank ye, doctor,’ I says, smiling to myself. ‘And now look here,’ I says, ‘I’m not going to give up till the last; and when that last comes, and the ship’s going down, why, I shall have a try if I can’t swim to safety. If that fails, and I can really feel that it is to be, why, I hope I shall go down into the great deep calmly, like a hopeful man, praying that Somebody above will forgive me all I’ve done amiss, and stretch out His fatherly hand to my little ones at home.’

“He went away, and I dropped asleep, worn out with my exertion.

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