"I never studied Greek.

If a woman has a disease, there it is, and you can deal with it or not; but if she hasn't no disease, then it's chicanyery--chicanyery.

Doctors talk a lot of gibberish these here days.
What I want to know is, has my wife got a disease?
I haven't seen any signs.

Is it Bright's, or cancer, or the lungs, or the liver, or the kidneys, or the heart, or what's its name ?" The Young Doctor had an impulse to flay the heathen, but for the girl-wife's sake he forbore.
"I don't think it is any of those troubles," he replied smoothly.

"She needs a thorough examination.