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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
'Very true. But pray tell me about the present
state of the sick-berth. I am afraid you have
been cruelly overworked.'
They talked for a while about the recent incised,
lacerated, punctured and gun-shot
wounds, the fractures simple, compound or
comminuted that had come below, and
Stephen's success or failure in dealing with
them, speaking in an objective, professional
manner. In a less detached tone Martin asked
after the Captain. 'It is the eye that troubles
me,' said Stephen. 'The pike-thrust is healing
by first intention; the head-wound, though its
stunning effect is still evident to a slight degree,
is of no consequence; nor is the loss of
blood. But the eye received the wad of the pistol-bullet
that tore his scalp, a thick, gritty,
partially disintegrated wad. I extracted many
fragments and I believe there was no grave
scoring of the cornea nor of course any pene-