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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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“He is a horrible little brute,” wrote the Abbé,
“who sits in her lap and snarls and growls at
everybody; he has even bitten the maid twice.
Everybody hates him, but the Marquise adores
him and fusses about him the whole day.
Yesterday in the midst of the confession he was
suddenly sick all over her beautiful teagown and
his mistress was in such a state of alarm that I
had to interrupt the function. Now the
Marquise wants me to ask you if you think it might
possibly develop into colitis and asks you to be so
kind as to prescribe something for him, she says
she feels sure you will understand his case better
than anybody.”

The Marquise was not far from the truth there,
for I was already then beginning to be known
as a good dog-doctor, though I had not reached
the eminent position I occupied later in my life,
when I became a consulting dog-doctor famous
among all dog-lovers of my clientèle. I am aware
that the opinions as to my skill as a doctor to my
fellow-creatures have been somewhat divided, but
I dare to maintain that my reputation as a reliable
dog-doctor has never been seriously challenged.
I am not conceited enough to wish to deny that
this may partly depend upon the absence of
jalousie de métier I met with in the exercise of
this branch of my profession—I got plenty of it
in the other branches, I can assure you.

To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to
love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand
them—the same as with us, with the difference
that it is easier to understand a dog than a man
and easier to love him. Never forget that the

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