Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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MR. PRIESTLEY: I don't think a doctor prescribes for a person without seeing him. However, it's a good story.
HOB: I've never been a doctor in my life, but if the advice they give is to eat a lot, not work hard, and go away for a holiday, which is what the doctor seems to have told Olaf, I think I'll see one tomorrow. But
I once went to the dentist. May I tell you about that?
MR. PRIESTLEY: By all means. I think it is an excellent idea.
HOB: I had had toothache for several days, but just hadn't enough courage to go to the dentist. As a matter of fact I went twice, but just as I got on his doorstep and was going to ring the bell, the toothache seemed to have gone away, so I went home again. But at last I had to go back, and this time I rang the bell and was shown into the waiting-room.
There were a number of magazines there, and I had just got into the middle of an exciting story when the maid came in to say Mr. Puller was ready to see me. I'll have to wait for the next toothache to finish that story!
' Она ошибочно услышала "some mice" [sAm'mais] вместо "some ice" [sAm'ais]
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Well, I went into the surgery and he told me to sit in a chair that he could move up and down, backwards and forwards, and then he had a look at the inside of my mouth. He put a little mirror on a long handle inside my mouth and poked about for a while, then he looked serious and said, "Yes, I'm afraid we can't save that one, it will have to come out. It won't be necessary to give you gas for that. I'll just give you an injection." So he filled a syringe with a liquid. I felt a little prick on the gum and that was all. He did this in two or three places and waited for a minute or so. My mouth felt rather dead, but otherwise it was all right. Then he took an instrument, got hold my tooth, gave a twist (I could see and hear what he did, but I couldn't feel anything), then a quick pull, and the tooth was out and he was saying, "Yes, it's all over. Spit in there and then wash your mouth out with this." And he handled me a glass. "There's the tooth, a very nasty one."
He was just going to throw it away, but I said, "May I have that tooth, please?"
"You can certainly have it if you want it," he said.
"Well, " I replied, "it has worried me a good deal for the last week, and so now I am going to put it on my dressing-table and watch it ache."
MR. PRIESTLEY: Well done, Hob; you described that well.
HOB: But I must tell you about a friend of mine who went to a dentist-not a very good one-to have a tooth filled.
The dentist got him in the chair and started drilling away at the tooth; it was one right at the back of his mouth. He went on and on for what seemed like hours. Then he stopped for a minute or two and said, "Haven't you had this tooth filled before?"
"No," said my friend; and again the drilling went on. About another hour went by (at least it seemed like an hour) and again the dentist said, "Are you sure you haven't had this tooth filled? I've got a speck or two of gold on the drill. " "No, " said my friend, "that's not from my tooth; it must be from my back collar-stud."
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WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS CONNECTED WITH DOCTORS AND ILLNESS
MR. PRIESTLEY: The ordinary doctor (sometimes called a G.P., i.e., general practitioner) is sometimes a physician or a surgeon (i.e. able to perform operations), and quite often he is both physician and surgeon. But if the illness is serious, or the operation a big one, he will advise you to get a specialist. You will go to the specialist-in London almost all of them have their consulting-rooms in or near Harley Street-or he will come to you, and if you have to have an operation he will advise you to go to a hospital or a nursing home where they have all the necessary equipment.
If your teeth need attention, stopping, filling, or extracting, or if you need false teeth (dentures), then you go to the dentist.
If your eyes need attention, you go to an oculist, who will examine them, test your sight to see whether you are suffering from short-sight or long-sight, and will write out a prescription, which you take to an optician, who will then make the necessary glasses for you.
All this you get under the National Health Service.
The common illnesses are: a cough, a cold, influenza ("the flu"), sore throat.
Children often get: measles (including "German" measles), mumps, scarlet fever and whooping-cough. You can generally know that a child is not well if it has a temperature (i.e., is above the normal 98.4° Fahrenheit).
Older people suffer from indigestion, rheumatism, heart troubles and blood-pressure.
Some diseases are infectious or contagious, and great care must be taken by people who have these illnesses, so that they don't pass them on to other people.
You may have toothache, earache, headache.
HOB: And when I was a boy and ate a lot of green apples I had a stomach-ache.
MR. PRIESTLEY: All these give you pain.
Then you may get a burn, a scald, or a wound', you may get blood poisoning, or break a bone.
