The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
The doctor, a large, hulking fellow with fingers more like the digits of some great ape and a persistent cough -- brought about, he'd informed me, by a leech-gathering mission assayed -- or braved! -- in the darker region of night but two weeks previous -- frowned as he relayed his diagnosis.
"...two weeks previous -- frowned as he relayed his diagnosis. "I'm afraid," he said, shaking complex activity into the..."
Oct. 24, 2003 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner