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XXIX
I asked him: "Do you agree with Poznyshiev [in 'Kreutzer Sonata'] when he says that doctors have destroyed and are destroying thousands and hundreds of thousands of people?"
"Are you very anxious to know?"
"Very."
"Then I shan't tell you."
And he smiled, playing with his thumbs.
I remember in one of his stories he makes a comparison between a quack village "vet." and a doctor of medicine:
"The words 'giltchak,' 'potchetchny,' 'blood-letting' [words used by quack 'vets.' for the diseases of horses], are not they precisely the same as nerves, rheumatism, organisms, etc.?"
And this was written after Jenner, Behring, Pasteur. It is perversity!
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