John Abernethy

We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and dispositions; we must risk nay even injure our own health in order to be able to preserve or restore that of others.

Why Madam do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughters? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play and you will have no need of my advice.