Sir Patrick Monologue from The Doctor's Dilemma

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw

male · sarcastic · 1:12 min

Tuberculosis? M-m-m-m! Youve found out how to cure consumption, eh? (RIDGEON: I believe so.) Ah yes. It's very interesting. What is it the old cardinal says in Browning's play? "I have known four and twenty leaders of revolt." Well, Ive known over thirty men that found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment, I suppose. There was my father's old friend George Boddington of Sutton Coldfield. He discovered the open-air cure in eighteen-forty. He was ruined and driven out of his practice for only opening the windows; and now we wont let a consumptive patient have as much as a roof over his head. Oh, it's very VERY interesting to an old man. (RIDGEON: You old cynic, you dont believe a bit in my discovery.) No, no: I dont go quite so far as that, Colly. But still, you remember Jane Marsh?

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