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a cough mixture for some of their innumerable
babies. My ambulatorio in Trastevere spread
my fame all over the poor quarters in Rome. I
was on my legs from morning till night, I slept
like a king from night till morning unless I was
called out, which happened as often as not, it
mattered nothing to me, I never knew what
fatigue meant in those days. Soon, to gain time
and to satisfy my love of horses, I drove about
Rome full speed in a smart red-wheeled victoria
drawn by a pair of splendid Hungarian horses, my
faithful Tappio, the Lapland dog, seated by my
side. I can now see that it was maybe a little
showy and might have been mistaken for réclame
had I not already then passed the need of any.
Anyhow, it hit my forty-four colleagues badly in
the eye, there is no doubt about it. Some of
them drove about in gloomy looking old coaches
from the time of Pio Nono, to all appearances as
if intended to be adapted at a moment’s notice as
hearses for their dead patients. Others walked
about on foot on their lugubrious errands in long
frock-coats, their top hats pushed down over
their foreheads as if in deep meditation whom
they were to embalm next. They all glared
savagely at me as I drove past, they all knew me
by sight. Soon they had to know me in person
as well, as, whether they wanted it or not, I began
to be called in consultation by their dying patients.
I tried my best to observe rigorously the etiquette
of our profession and to tell their patients they
were lucky indeed to be in such good hands, but
it was not always easy. We were indeed a sad
crew, shipwrecks from various lands and seas,
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