Please hurry!!The author advances the plot through the use of the narrator's
This memoir, published in 1889. started out as a serious
travel guide but quickly became better known for the
author's humorous writing style. In this excerpt the author
finds a book on illnesses and determines in his inexpert
opinion that he has all of them.
page-by-page study of a medical text
from Three Men In A Boat
(To Say Nothing of the Dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome
struggle with painful physical symptoms
detailed recollection of his doctor's advice
discussion with peers in a medical library
I remember going to the British Museum one
day to read up the treatment for some slight
ailment of which I had a touch-hay fever,
fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all i
came to read; and then, in an unthinking
moment, Iidly turned the leaves, and began
to... study diseases, generally. I forget which
was the first distemper I plunged into-some
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