He said he did not have the medicines my friend prescribed
I said: "You are a chemist?"
He said: "I am a chemist. If I was a co-operative store and a family hotel combined, I might be able to help you. But I am only a chemist."
I read the prescription. It went:
1 lb beefsteak, with 1 pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't fill your head with things you don't understand.
I followed my doctor's instructions, with the happy result - speaking for myself - that my life was preserved, and is still going on.
