elstaffe’s Reviews > Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection > Status Update

"Eighty-four thousand people, including hundreds in the remotest wastes of Staten Island, were vaccinated on Monday." (119)

"'I didn't want to raise her false hopes.' When Mr. Pomerantz got home, he merely remarked, 'Vera, I have something in these bottles that may make medical history.' 'I don't doubt it,' replied Mrs. Pomerantz, a woman in whom, I gathered, the inquisitive instinct is blunted. 'Supper is almost ready.'" (60)

"During the Middle Ages, when the science of medicine reached a state of confusion unequalled even in the more backward cultures along the upper Amazon" (28) oh dear