M.D.—"Would you have the price if I said you needed an operation?"
MANNING—"Would you say I needed an operation if you thought I didn't have the price?"—Life.
"How do you pronounce 'pneumonia'?" asked the French boy, who had come to England to learn the language.
His only chum told him.
"That's odd," replied the young Gaul. "It says in this story I am reading that the doctor pronounced it fatal."
Mr. Roger W. Babson says that in looking up appendicitis cases he learned that in 17 per cent. of the operations for that disease the post-mortem examinations showed that the appendix was in perfect condition.
"The whole subject," he adds, "reminds me of a true story I heard in London recently. In the hospitals there, the ailment of the patient, when he is admitted, is denoted by certain letters, such as 'T. B.' for tuberculosis. An American doctor was examining these history slips when his curiosity was aroused by the number on which the letters 'G.O.K.' appeared. He said to the physician who was showing him around:
"'There seems to be a severe epidemic of this G.O.K. in London. What is it, anyhow?'