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flu quinsy
Ex.12. Read and decide which responses should follow the patient’s question.
| 1. I have a sore throat and my tonsils ([tÉnslz] – миндалины) are inflamed. Do you think it could be flu? | a) Not necessary. But I’ll prescribe some sleeping pills – to help you get a good night’s rest. |
| 2. I’ve been suffering from insomnia lately. Do you think I might be heading for a nervous breakdown? | b) Well, sounds a bit like it. I’ll make you out a prescription for some antibiotics and sprays. |
| 3. My daughter is in bed with a heavy cold and headache. How can I help her? | c) You’ll have to go to hospital for an X-ray. Now keep it in bandage for a time. |
| 4. I’ve twisted my ankle. The pain is very sharp. Is it possible that I have broken or sprained my leg? | d) It’s just possible. I’ll strap it up anyway and put it in a sling. That should reduce your discomfort a lot. |
| 5. Sally is very pale and anaemic but she has no complaints. What would you advice her? | e) Give her half an aspirin. Some painkillers will also ease the pain. If she is not better consult a doctor. |
| 6. My child has a rash in his chest. Do you think it could be a skin disease? | f) She must follow the diet, take more exercise in the fresh air. Apart from that I’ll give her some vitamin pills. |
Ex. 13. Put the sentences in the right order to make the story of some short illness.
a) The following morning I still didn’t feel any better, so I went down to the surgery.
b) When I woke up on Tuesday I felt sick and dizzy.
c) It cleared up the sore throat very quickly.
d) I was shivering one minute and sweating the next.
e) I started feeling ill on Monday evening. I had a bit of a temperature, so I took an aspirin and had an early night.
f) When I was at the doctor I explained my symptoms.
g) I took the prescription to the chemist, where I got an antibiotic.
h) He examined me, and said I had the flu and a sore throat.
i) I took things easy, and by the weekend I had completely recovered.
j) He gave me a prescription for the sore throat, and said that I should go to bed for a few days.
k) I had some toast, but I was sick immediately, so I went back to bed. I had a fever.
Ex. 14. a) Read the text and mark unknown words and some medical words and word combinations.
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment. I got down the book and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves and began to study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first, and before I had glanced half down the list of “premonitory symptoms”, I was sure that I had got it.
I sat for a while frozen with horror; and then in despair I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever – read the symptoms – discovered that I had typhoid fever – began to get interested in my case, and so started alphabetically.
Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I looked through the twenty-six letters, and the only disease I had not got was housemaid’s knee.
I sat and thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view. Students would have no need to “walk the hospitals” if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I couldn’t at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head but I could not feel or heat anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as far ever it would go, and I shut one eye and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, but I felt more certain that before that I had scarlet fever.
I had walked into the reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a miserable wreck.
I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I’m ill. So I went up and saw him, and he said:
“Well, what’s the matter with you?”
I said:
“I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is short and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is not the matter with me. Everything else, however, I have got”.
And I told him how I came to discover it all.
Then he opened me and looked down me, and took hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn’t expecting it – a cowardly thing to do, I call it. After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
I did not open it, I took it to the nearest chemist’s, and handed it in. The man read it, and then handed it back. He sad he didn’t keep it.
I said: ”You are a chemist?”
He said: “I am a chemist. If I was a co-operative stores and family hotel combined, I might be able to oblige you.”
I read the prescription. It ran:
“ lb[1] beefsteak, with
pt[2] bitter beer
every six hours.
ten-mile walk every morning.
bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don’t stuff up your head with things you don’t understand”.
I followed the directions with the happy result that my life was preserved.
b) Note down as many diseases the author had as possible.
c) What do the following words and expressions mean?
premonitory symptoms, to time the pulse, miserable wreck, to stuff up the head?
d) Give a brief-summary of the text in the third person singular.
e) What is the name of the disease which the author was really suffering?
Ex. 15. a) Read the text and say what George does not to get older and not to rust. What are the secrets of his long life?
“How to live to be 100 or more”
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