16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
us!'
'Did the Doctor mention Gregory's Patent
Liquid?'
'Which I put some on Barret Bonden's wound,
a horrible great gash: like a butcher's shop.
And look at it now. As clean as a whistle.
Come on, sir. Never mind the smart; it is all
for your own good.'
'A very little, then,' said Jack, who had in fact
known of Gregory's Liquid together with Harris's
Guaranteed Unguent, Carey's Warranted
Arrowroot, brimstone and treacle on Friday
and other staples of domestic medicine, all as
much a part of daily life on land as hard-tack
and mustering by divisions on Sunday at sea.
With his hat very carefully arranged over his
new bandage – for in spite of his innumerable
faults Killick did not lack a kind of sparse tenderness
– Jack made his way up the compan-