I am rather afraid that Doctor Softly was not a clever
medical man; for in spite of his great connections, he did not get a very magnificent practice as a physician.
'I am myself a
medical man' (he did not say 'doctor'), with which words he waved his hands towards the room and its contents as though in protest at his present condition.
Mortimer is a successful, elderly
medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation."
Some time after this a gentleman remarked that he would make an excellent
medical man, and again his uncle gave him money and sent him off to Edinburgh, this time as a medical student.
`But,' said the
Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, `if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different?
After some journeying backward and forward to consult this gentleman, he decided on retiring from business, and on taking up his abode within an easy distance of his
medical man.
"Would it do so," interposed the other
medical man, "if the property happened to be in land?"
At all events, it is certain that if any
medical man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active piety, there would have been a general presumption against his medical skill.
The
medical man who was sent for to attend the sick woman discovered at once that she was suffering from a serious affection of the heart.
Turnbull, the
medical man, Gore's letter was brought and laid on the bed, and the previous impatience seemed to be allayed.
I went to my
medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill; so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to him now.
"You were in luck," said he, "to get picked up by a ship with a
medical man aboard." He spoke with a slobbering articulation, with the ghost of a lisp.
medical man - someone who practices medicine