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long day of perhaps twelve hours hard manual labour, 
and at night has to patch up fingers, to dispense medi- 
cine and make scientific notes if he can steal a spare 
moment. In this case he has besides to turn out two or 
three times in the night to attend the principal patient, 
with the certainty of having to listen to endless growling 
about there being ' too much science on board ; 
there's never nobody seeck whan thar 's no dooctur : ' to 
the like and worse. 
