franksolich
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Scourge of the Primitives, in service to humanity
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« on: April 21, 2009, 05:37:01 pm » |
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That night, while in bed, I tossed and turned, wondering if perhaps I might be more foolish than practical, undertaking this enterprise; after all, this plumber was not a real dentist.
Having grown up in a medical family, I was not unfamiliar with the history of medicine and surgery, and having "tested" myself many times before, I was not unfamiliar with the limits to which I could go, and remain a decent and civilized person.
As mentioned before, I already knew about the instruments the plumber had, from illustrated books of the history of dentistry during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
(This happened years before I ventured into the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all; if I had known then, what I knew later, this particular point would not have concerned me at all.)
Bah, humbug, I thought; I was saving $135, and that wasn't chump change.
The next evening, about suppertime, I presented myself to the plumber and his wife.
She smiled at me; he seemed genuinely shocked that I had shown up.
temporarily interrupted and locked because the guy who mows the grass here just showed up, and needs instructions on what's to be mowed, and what's not to be touched; why he mows the grass here in the darkness of night is another story altogether
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From the radio address by King George VI, given to the people of the British Empire on December 25, 1939, when things were starting to go badly:
".....and I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light so that I may tread safely into the unknown.'
"And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way'....."
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