Abstract

In the Driftway

Medicine, like the rest of civilization, grows ever more complex. It talks about the case, when the teeth were taken out, it was done in two visits on the same day with an interval of five hours in between. But such simple methods seem to be demoded. This last time the patient had to make seven visits to his x-ray doctor, occupying the better part of three days. His captors photographed practically every square inch of his insides, standing up and lying down. They filled him up with all kinds of fluids and washed him out with every known purge. They must have taken a couple of dozen pictures, discovering all the bodily secrets which the patient possessed. That is, all those below the neck. The patient's captors had the forbearance not to turn their probing rays upon his head, thereby spating him from the most humiliating revelation of all.