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CHAPTER XV.
ATHOTHIS SNEERS AT THE GERM THEORY, AND AROUSES
THE ANGER OF PAULUS ANDROCYDES, WHO CONTENDS
FOR THE MODERN OPINION.
THERE goes Doctor Slasher!" exclaimed
Paulus Androcydes, as the two spirits floated
across a broad avenue. " See his magnifi-
cent equipage as it stops in front of the
Hotel Nicholas. Professor Slasher is one of the most
prominent of modern surgeons, and lectures in the
medical college of Utopia. He has ligated the aorta,
excised the cerebrum, removed the liver, trimmed the
semi-lunar valves, and stretched the pneumogastric
nerve. He was the first operator to cut out the stomach,
kidneys, and bladder. His reputation is wide-spread,
and has already brought him numerous patients from
abroad."
" Are his operations usually successful ? Does he
remove the patient, as well as morbid viscera ?" de-
manded Athothis.
" I must admit!" answered Paulus Androcydes, after
a few seconds hesitation, " that the subjects of these
capital surgical manipulations usually require the after-
assistance of an undertaker, and are wont to seek the
quiet seclusion of the churchyard. Nevertheless, his
cases, at best, are hopeless."
" In other words, he has built his reputation on the
dead," retorted Athothis. "And his epitaph to fame is
