"I'm more interested in his collyrium," said the short ape.
"You're a card, Doctor," cried the fat ape and the muscular ape together.
"Well, well," said the head physician tolerantly. "Fun is fun, but we must consider the patient."
"Consider the patient," ordered the nurse sternly, retrieving her cap.
"Patients are a virtue, get them while you can, hyster in a woman, prostate in a man," chanted the thin ape. "Let's get on with it."
"I see definite signs of softening of the hardening," remarked the old ape.
"Pardon me, Doctor," protested the thin ape, "surely these are classic symptoms of hardening of the softening."
"Weakening of the perspicates," muttered the muscular ape.
"Inversion of the fluctuates," amended the fat ape.
"Disconvection of the interregnum with complicated indications of pronobis-paxvobiscum," said the jovial ape, scratching between his shoulderblades.