human
I have had to insist that the child be taken to the hospital, said the good doctor.
gpt
That almost broke his mother's heart; but their rooms were not sufficiently airy. And then, the child is suffering from pernicious an熤ia, and unless he mends he will die, anyway.
human
That is an awful hard name to call little Johnny, Daddy Doctor,
gpt
It is awfully hard for little Johnny, that's a fact, said the doctor, thoughtfully.
human
It is awfully hard for his mother, who, like the plucky widow she is, has struggled so hard to bring those children to where they are. Bill, of course, has helped her; but Bill isn't much smarter in some ways than silly Rufe. The widow's done it all; and she's just wrapped up in Johnny.
gpt
How cruel for anything to happen to him!
human
It looks so. We can't see things in their true light very often, I suppose. It takes a Divine Eye to see straight, and the doctor wagged his head.
gpt
Here's this poor woman would give her heart's blood--that's the expression she uses--to save the little fellow. But her blood won't do. She is not in a healthy condition herself. And Johnny needs perfectly healthy, normal blood----
human
My goodness, Daddy Doctor! exclaimed Nellie, with a shiver.
gpt
How you do talk!
human
Eh?
gpt
As though anybody's blood could help poor Johnny.
human
Ah! but that's just it, Nellie. Somebody's blood _would_ help poor little Johnny. A pint or so of somebody's healthy, red blood----
gpt
How horrid!
human
Wait. Don't be a ridiculous Miss Nancy! he said, with a chuckle.
gpt
You are as much a surgeon's daughter as a doctor's daughter, I hope.
human
I'm proud that you heal folk of diseases, Daddy Doctor, she said, laughing faintly.
gpt
But you talk now just like a butcher.
human
No. The transfusion of blood is one of the most wonderful and blessed discoveries of recent years. Perhaps not a discovery; but the proper way to do it is a recent discovery. And that is what we want to try on little Johnny at the hospital.
gpt
Oh, Daddy!
human
Johnny's condition is such that he needs good, red corpuscles pumping through his veins, and without a proper amount or a proper quality of blood, he cannot live. The nourishment he can take is insufficient to make this blood. What he must have is now in the possession of some other person. We must find that person very quickly--or not at all.
gpt
Oh, Daddy Doctor! she whispered.