human
I have come at your summons, sir!
gpt
And shure, so have I! and was I not first in the room?
human
In that, Doctor Murphy, you are mistaken! exclaimed the tall man,
gpt
But my body was in before yours, Mr O'Shea; and I consider that you are bound to give place to a doctor of medicine!
human
But this appears to me to be a surgical case, said the tall man;
gpt
he continued, stalking past his brother practitioner, and making a bow with a battered hat to the major,
human
I come, I presume, on your summons, to attend to the injured boy; and such skill as I possess--and I flatter myself it's considerable--is at your service. May I ask what is the matter with him?
gpt
Here's a practitioner who doesn't know what his patient is suffering from by a glance of the eye! cried the doctor of medicine.
human
Give place, Mr O'Shea, to a man of superior knowledge to yourself, exclaimed Doctor Murphy.
gpt
It's easy enough to see with half a glance that the boy has broken his neck, and by this time, unless he possesses a couple of spines,--and I never knew a man have more than one, though,--he must be dead as a door nail!
human
Dead! cried Mr O'Shea;
gpt
You, at all events, ought to know a corpse from a live man, cried the fat medico, growing irate,
human
And you, Doctor Murphy, have poisoned one-half of your patients, and the others only survive because they throw the physic you send them to the dogs.
gpt
Come, gentlemen, exclaimed the major,