IT is natural for a perfect stranger who is going from _London_ to
_Edinburgh_, to enquire before he sets out, how many miles to _York;_
which is about the half way——nor does any body wonder, if he goes on
and asks about the corporation, &c. - -
It was just as natural for Mrs. _Wadman_, whose first husband was all
his time afflicted with a Sciatica, to wish to know how far from the
hip to the groin; and how far she was likely to suffer more or less in
her feelings, in the one case than in the other.
She had accordingly read _Drake_’s anatomy from one end to the other.
She had peeped into _Wharton_ upon the brain, and borrowed[45] _Graaf_
upon the bones and muscles; but could make nothing of it.
She had reason’d likewise from her own powers——laid down
theorems——drawn consequences, and come to no conclusion.
To clear up all, she had twice asked Doctor _Slop_, “if poor captain
_Shandy_ was ever likely to recover of his wound——?”
——He is recovered, Doctor _Slop_ would say——
What! quite?