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4 They gave her a ______________ to calm her down.
5 The doctor made out a _____________ for pain-killers.
6 He cut his finger so badly that I took him to ______________ to have
stitches.
7 He is so severely ________________ that he has to have a wheelchair.
8 He caught some strange tropical ____________ when he was abroad last
summer.
9 I couldn’t take my temperature because I couldn’t find the ___________ .
10 Nowadays many _____________ are performed under local anaesthetic.
9. Read and translate.
WASHINGTON. – Because medical costs are rising so fast, more and more
people are diagnosing their own illnesses or, worse still, those of their friends. The
government would do well to make a study of how these non-professional diagnoses
are affecting the nation’s health picture.
The other day I had a cold. It was just like the ones you see on television. I was
sneezing, coughing and looking mournfully at my wife. I called my secretary at the
office and said I wouldn’t be in because I felt lousy.
“You must have one of those “eight-hour things” that’s going all around town,”
she said. “You’ll feel perfectly well tomorrow.”
Eight hours seemed to be a reasonable time to have a cold, and I was looking
forward to staying in bed, particularly since the Yankees and Red Sox were playing a
crucial game to get into the American League playoffs.
My sister called, and I told her I had one of those “eight-hour things that’s been
going all around.”
“Are you sure it’s only an “eight-hour thing”?” she asked. “It could be the “24-hour
bug” Harold had last week. Do you have any fever?”
“A little – maybe 100.”
“That’s the “24-hour bug” for sure. Drink lots of fluids and take aspirin, and
you’ll be able to shake it off.”
I really hadn’t counted on staying in bed for 24 hours, but it’s stupid to fight a
bug. My other sister called up 10 minutes later. “Edith says you’ve got a 24-hour
bug.”
“I don’t know if it’s a bug or just a cold.”
“Is your nose red from blowing it?”
“Yah, sure it is. Why do you ask?”
“Then you don’t have a “24-hour bug”. You have a “48-hour virus.”
“My secretary said all I had was an “eight-hour thing”. How come you moved it up
to 48 hours?”
“The “eight-hour thing” is entirely different. You feel funny but your nose doesn’t
get red when you blow it. The “24-hour bug” has all the symptoms of the
“eight-hour” one, except that you cough a lot. The “48-hour virus” makes you

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